Professor David Manley
BA Hons (Lanc.), MSc(Leic.), PhD(St.And.)
Expertise
Current positions
Dean of Science and Engineering
Science Faculty Office
Contact
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Research interests
David is interested in trying to better understand how the places in which individuals live interact with the outcomes that they experience over their life course. Key topics within this research include modelling and understanding neighbourhood effects, investigating how individuals and households locate in residential space and understanding how segregation develops and is maintained over very long periods of time. Crucial to this work is the notion that statistics can be used critically to challenge myths in the academic literature. David is also interested in more methodological problems including how neighbourhoods are represented and different scales and in different places. Recent publications include the first of a three volume edited series on neighbourhood effects work, published by Springer.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Geographies of Ethnic Diversity and Inequalities
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/02/2023 to 31/03/2026
Intersectional Stigma of Place-based Ageing
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
26/09/2022 to 25/09/2027
Shared Spaces: The how, when and why of adolescent intergroup interactions
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The Shared Spaces Project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, explores the factors that influence whether or not young people in the UK choose to interact with people…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/03/2021 to 29/02/2024
Shared spaces: understanding adolescent intergroup interactions
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/03/2021 to 29/02/2024
Everyday Integration
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The project Everyday Integration: the local contexts, practices and mobilities of integration aims to reinvent integration from the bottom up. It will capture and build on the experiences and best…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
02/10/2019 to 31/07/2023
Thesis supervisions
The stress pathway
Supervisors
Together Apart
Supervisors
The ‘New Divides’ of Neoliberalism
Supervisors
Financial Development and Access to Funding
Supervisors
Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms
Supervisors
The Worksome
Supervisors
The long-term impact of social mixing policies on neighbourhood reputations
Supervisors
People, places, and problem debt
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
17/05/2025Do you see it how I see it? Differences in neighborhood perceptions explained by individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics and trust attitudes
Urban Geography
The Longitudinal Effects of Intergroup Contact on Youth Attitudes Towards Ethnic Minorities and Constructive Societal Engagement
Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
The spatio-temporal evolution of social inequalities in cities
Cities
People, places and a pandemic
Geography and A Geographer
An ethnic group specific deprivation index for measuring neighbourhood inequalities in England and Wales
The Geographical Journal
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