Professor David Manley

Research summary

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 ...

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Biography

Lancaster University BA Hons Geography and Economics 2000University of Leicester MSc in Geographical Information Systems (Dist) 2001
University of St Andrews PhD Human Geography (2005)

Honorary Fellow, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands 

Fellow of the HEA

David has a University Research Fellowship for the academic year 2018/19 and is on research leave.

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Recent publications

• Kwong, A, Manley, D, Timpson, N, Pearson, R, Heron, J, Sallis, H, Stergiakouli, E, Davis, OS & Leckie, G, 2019, ‘Identifying Critical Points of Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms from Childhood to Young Adulthood’. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, vol 48., pp. 815-827
• Bromley-Davenport, H, MacLeavy, J & Manley, D, 2019, ‘Brexit in Sunderland: The production of difference and division in the UK referendum on European Union membership’. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol 37., pp. 795-812

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