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Changing labour market conditions during the ‘great recession’ and mental health in Scotland 2007–2011: An example using the Scottish Longitudinal Study and data for local areas in Scotland (2018)
Journal Article
Curtis, S., Pearce, J., Cherrie, M., Dibben, C., Cunningham, N., & Bambra, C. (2018). Changing labour market conditions during the ‘great recession’ and mental health in Scotland 2007–2011: An example using the Scottish Longitudinal Study and data for local areas in Scotland. Social Science & Medicine, 227, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.003

This paper reports research exploring how trends in local labour market conditions during the period 2007–2011 (early stages of the ‘great recession’) relate to reported mental illness for individuals. It contributes to research on spatio-temporal va... Read More about Changing labour market conditions during the ‘great recession’ and mental health in Scotland 2007–2011: An example using the Scottish Longitudinal Study and data for local areas in Scotland.

Emerging Cultural Capital in the City: Profiling London and Brussels (2018)
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Savage, M., Hanquinet, L., Cunningham, N., & Hjellbrekke, J. (2018). Emerging Cultural Capital in the City: Profiling London and Brussels. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 42(1), 138-149. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12531

This essay examines how the contemporary city is being redefined as a fundamental crucible in which new and emerging modes of cultural capital are being forged. Drawing inspiration from the links Bourdieu draws between physical and social space, we u... Read More about Emerging Cultural Capital in the City: Profiling London and Brussels.

Making and mapping Britain’s “new ordinary elite” (2017)
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Cunningham, N. (2019). Making and mapping Britain’s “new ordinary elite”. Urban Geography, 40(5), 604-626. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2017.1390721

There has been a sharp intensification in public and academic interest in differing conceptions of an urban “elite” in recent times. However, the concept of social class in the construction and reproduction of urban elites has remained either an impl... Read More about Making and mapping Britain’s “new ordinary elite”.

An Intensifying and Elite City: New Geographies of Social Class and Inequality in Contemporary London (2017)
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Cunningham, N., & Savage, M. (2017). An Intensifying and Elite City: New Geographies of Social Class and Inequality in Contemporary London. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 21(1), 25-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1263490

This paper contributes to the debate on London’s social class structure at the start of the 21st century. That debate has focused on the use of census metrics to argue the case for whether or not the capital has become more or less middle class in co... Read More about An Intensifying and Elite City: New Geographies of Social Class and Inequality in Contemporary London.

The Inner Geographies of a Migrant Gateway: Mapping the Built Environment and the Dynamics of Caribbean Mobility in Manchester, 1951–2011 (2016)
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Brown, L., & Cunningham, N. (2016). The Inner Geographies of a Migrant Gateway: Mapping the Built Environment and the Dynamics of Caribbean Mobility in Manchester, 1951–2011. Social Science History, 40(01), 93-120. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2015.82

Between the 1960s and 1990s a series of urban redevelopment projects in Manchester radically transformed ethnic settlement in the city. The ward of Moss Side, which had been a gateway for Caribbean and African immigrants, experienced repeated slum cl... Read More about The Inner Geographies of a Migrant Gateway: Mapping the Built Environment and the Dynamics of Caribbean Mobility in Manchester, 1951–2011.

‘The judgement of God on an indolent and unself-reliant people’?: The impact of the Great Irish Famine on Ireland's religious demography (2015)
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Gregory, I. N., & Cunningham, N. A. (2016). ‘The judgement of God on an indolent and unself-reliant people’?: The impact of the Great Irish Famine on Ireland's religious demography. Journal of Historical Geography, 51, 76-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2015.07.001

It has suited both sides of Ireland's religious and political divide to portray the Great Famine that affected Ireland in the late 1840s as primarily affecting the Catholic population. However, while the geographies of the Famine have been explored i... Read More about ‘The judgement of God on an indolent and unself-reliant people’?: The impact of the Great Irish Famine on Ireland's religious demography.

The secret garden? Elite metropolitan geographies in the contemporary UK (2015)
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Cunningham, N., & Savage, M. (2015). The secret garden? Elite metropolitan geographies in the contemporary UK. Sociological Review, 63(2), 321-348. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.12285

There is an enduring, indeed increasing awareness of the role of spatial location in defining and reinforcing inequality in this country and beyond. In the UK, much of the debate around these issues has focussed on the established trope of a long-sta... Read More about The secret garden? Elite metropolitan geographies in the contemporary UK.

Hard to miss, easy to blame? Peacelines, interfaces and political deaths in Belfast during the Troubles (2014)
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Cunningham, N., & Gregory, I. (2014). Hard to miss, easy to blame? Peacelines, interfaces and political deaths in Belfast during the Troubles. Political Geography, 40, 64-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.02.004

As Northern Ireland moves further from the period of conflict known as the ‘Troubles’, attention has increasingly focussed on the social and material vestiges of that conflict; Northern Ireland is still a deeply-divided society in terms of residentia... Read More about Hard to miss, easy to blame? Peacelines, interfaces and political deaths in Belfast during the Troubles.

A New Model of Social Class: Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment (2013)
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Savage, M., Devine, F., Cunningham, N., Taylor, M., Li, Y., Hjellbrekke, J., …Miles, A. (2013). A New Model of Social Class: Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment. Sociology, 47(2), 219-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038513481128

The social scientific analysis of social class is attracting renewed interest given the accentuation of economic and social inequalities throughout the world. The most widely validated measure of social class, the Nuffield class schema, developed in... Read More about A New Model of Social Class: Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment.

'The doctrine of vicarious punishment': space, religion and the Belfast Troubles of 1920-22 (2013)
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Cunningham, N. (2013). 'The doctrine of vicarious punishment': space, religion and the Belfast Troubles of 1920-22. Journal of Historical Geography, 40, 52-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2013.01.001

Between 1920 and 1922, the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland was the location of intense violence between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists arising out of the broader political conflict engulfing the island. Approximately 500 people died... Read More about 'The doctrine of vicarious punishment': space, religion and the Belfast Troubles of 1920-22.