Dear all,
If anyone is interested, or knows of anyone who might be interested,
get in touch direcly with Iain Deas.
Bests
Kevin
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University of Manchester, School of Planning & Landscape
New Deal for East Manchester
ESRC Case PhD studentship
Joining-up evaluation research: assessing area regeneration impacts in
areas of multiple intervention
The School of Planning & Landscape, in partnership with the New Deal
for East Manchester (NDEM), is currently offering a PhD studentship,
tenable from September 2001 for three years, supported by the Economic
and Social Research Council (ESRC). The focus of the studentship is
on the development of an evaluative framework to assess the impact of
NDEM, one of a number of pathfinder New Deal for Communities
initiatives established by Government in 1999. NDEM provides a
co-ordinating mechanism for a number of area-based regeneration
initiatives - including two Single Regeneration Budget Challenge Fund
schemes, Sure Start, an Education Action Zone and European Union funds
- which are active in East Manchester. It lies alongside a parallel
Urban Regeneration Company established in 1999, part of whose role is
also to co-ordinate the activities of regeneration partnerships, the
private and voluntary sectors and local authorities. The area covered
suffers from a range of longstanding, intractable social and economic
difficulties to which the various regeneration programmes listed
address themselves. NDEM oversees funding across different grant
regimes totalling some stlg70 million, and is anticipated to have a ten
year lifespan. Its first act has been to develop a delivery plan for
regeneration in the area, to which the various partner agencies listed
have agreed to adhere.
The student's research will explore the ways in which the impact of
area-based regeneration programmes can be discerned in a local context
of multiple policy intervention. In what ways can 'joined-up'
approaches to impact evaluation be developed which address the needs
of the various regeneration programmes active in areas like East
Manchester? The research will consider how evaluation methodologies
could best be refined in light of current local practice - and 'best
practice' elsewhere - in order to provide more meaningful measures of
the efficacy of different types of regeneration policy intervention.
Further details
Applicants must ordinarily be residents of the UK and must hold (or
expect to gain) at least an upper second class (2/i) honours degree in
a relevant subject (e.g. Planning, Geography, Sociology, Economics,
Politics etc).
Further details of the studentship and application forms are available
by contacting Iain Deas ([log in to unmask]) at the School of
Planning & Landscape, University of Manchester, Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PL (Tel. 0161 275 6884).
The closing date for completed applications is Friday 18th May 2001.
Kevin G. Ward
School of Geography
University of Manchester
Manchester, M13 9PL
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel.: +44 (0) 161 275 7877 (direct)
+44 (0) 161 275 3636 (fax)
EGRG web-page: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~egrg
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