Social Frontiers in Residential Segregation: A Data Analytics Approach

整个西方世界对移徙的影响以及对我们社会和城市的社会凝聚力的影响越来越感兴趣。辩论的一个关键方面是移民对种族隔离的影响--来自不同种族的人倾向于集中在特定社区的程度。这一博士学位提供了一个绝佳的机会，与来自英国和荷兰的世界领先的研究团队合作，对“社会边界”的原因和影响进行尖端研究，这是种族隔离研究的一个令人兴奋的新领域。当邻近社区(例如贝尔法斯特的天主教徒和新教徒)的居住构成存在明显的空间分化时，就会出现社会边界，而不是更渐进的群体空间融合。越来越多的证据表明，这种类型的隔离可能会对犯罪、心理健康和教育结果产生积极和消极的重要影响。这次学习将给你一个独特的机会，利用世界上最好的微观社会科学数据集之一来调查社会边界的影响和形成。

There has been growing interest across the western world regarding the impact of migration and the implications for social cohesion in our societies and cities. A key aspect of the debate is the impact of migration on segregation -- the extent to which people from different ethnicities tend to concentrate in particular neighbourhoods. This PhD offers a superb opportunity to work with a world-leading team of researchers from the UK and the Netherlands to produce cutting-edge research on the causes and impacts of "social frontiers", an exciting new area of segregation research. Social Frontiers arise when there are sharp spatial divisions in the residential make-up of adjacent communities (e.g. Catholics and Protestants in Belfast) as opposed to more gradual spatial blending of groups. There is growing evidence that this type of segregation could have important implications, both positive and negative, for crime, mental health and educational outcomes. This studentship will give you a unique opportunity to investigate the impacts and formation of social frontiers using one of the world's very best micro-level social science datasets.