Projects
Analysing mobility trends over time and space in relation to the increased fluidity of the lifecourse
Project contributors: Findlay A, Gayle V, McCollum D, Nightingale G, Liu Y, Malmberg G, Van-Ham M,
This Project is part of the following research programme/s:
Overview
This research investigates the mobility implications of increasingly fluid life courses with particular interest in moves at the beginning of the adult life course and in later life. Cooke (2011) argues that secular rootedness is dampening inter-regional migration, while on the other hand, understanding from CPC-I leads to the suggestion that increased disruptions to the life course (associated for example with insecurities in the workplace and the home) have triggered a range of new mobilities (e.g. to maintain child-parent links after marital dissolution).
Key question: 'What does an understanding of life transitions bring to theories of residential mobility across the life course?' Policy questions: 'Which new mobilities (especially those arising from changes in people's linked lives) are going to have an enduring impact on the UK population and what are the resource implications?'
The focus for this research is on the UK, but comparisons will be sought with Sweden using their rich register dataset. This project uses UK longitudinal datasets, (enriched by the linkage of 2011 census data) to distinguish cohort and period effects of economic and social change.
Publications & Activities
Challenges of dementia in pakistan
(2017).
Asghar Zaidi hosted a webinar discussing the topic "Challenges of Dementia in Pakistan", at the HANDS Institute of Community Development, Gadap, Karachi.
Declining internal migration in an era of mobilities? An analysis using data linked to the Scottish Longitudinal Study
Geography Research Seminar (2017). (Queen's University Belfast)
Authors: McCollum D,
Determinants of occupational mobility: the importance of place of work
Regional Studies (2018). 1-12
Authors: McCollum D, Liu Y, Findlay A, Feng Z, Nightingale G,
Ethnic variations in internal migration in the UK, 2009-2015
Southampton, CPC (2017). Series Number: 38.
Authors: Nightingale G, McCollum D, Finney N, Ernsten A,
McCollum D, Keenan K, Findlay A, (2020) Chapter 14 - The case for a life course perspective on mobility and migration research in Handbook on Demographic Change and the Lifecourse
Edward Edgar Publishing
Mobilities, linked lives and fluid lifecourses
Wiley (2015).
Authors: Findlay A, Mulder C,
Moving to move up? Disentangling the link between spatial and occupational mobility
ICPG Seattle 2017 (2017). (University of Washington)
Authors: Liu Y, McCollum D, Findlay A, Feng Z, Nightingale G,
New mobilities across the lifecourse: A framework for analysing demographically-linked drivers of migration
CPC (2015). Series Number: 59.
Authors: Findlay A, McCollum D, Coulter R, Gayle V,
New mobilities across the lifecourse: a framework for analysing demographically-linked drivers of migration
Population, Place and Space (2015). 21 (4) 390-402
Authors: Findlay A, McCollum D, Coulter R, Gayle V,
Residential mobility and the lifecourse: evidence of de-standardisation?
8th International Conference on Population Geographies (2015). (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Authors: McCollum D, Nightingale G, Findlay A,
Who moves up the social ladder in the UK?
Southampton, CPC (2017). Series Number: 39.
Authors: Nightingale G, McCollum D, Ernsten A,
Media
Mobile no more? Using administrative data linked to a census-based longitudinal study to investigate migration within Scotland Pop&health research twitter. 2018
Video on Twitter relating to Dr David McCollums's CPC working paper 88, 'Mobile no more? The innovative use of administrative data linked to a census-based longitudinal study to investigate migration within Scotland.'
Engaging with immigration on the ground: local policy responses from Scotland
Dr David McCollum quoted in The Geographer, "Engaging with immigration on the ground: local policy responses from Scotland.
Warm welcome - How pro-immigration attitudes in Scotland should affect the decisions of policymakers
Article in (ESRC) Britain in 2015 Magazine, "Warm welcome - How pro-immigration attitudes in Scotland should affect the decisions of policymakers"