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Practitioner Research Programme

Working together to understand new migration and superdiversity in Birmingham: issues, challenges and policy solutions. Dr Lisa Goodson, PRP lead

Programme:

 Superdiversity in Birmingham and the

development of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS)

 What is the Practitioner Research Programme?  Speed networking  How can you benefit from being involved?  World café discussion

– What type of information do you hold? Challenges in collecting information? – What don’t we know and what would we like to know more about? – What do you want to get out of the PRP ?

 Where next and questions?

Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS)

Dr Jenny Phillimore, Director of IRiS

Issues covered

About superdiversity Superdiversity in Birmingham IRiS aims and objectives IRiS structure and activity IRiS and BTR

Superdiversity

 “Diversification of diversity” (Vertovec 2007  Speed – 9% to 13% born overseas  Scale – census – 3.5m rise in population 56%

are migrants

 Spread i.e. Boston highest increase in AoW

(11.4%)

 Complexity – gender, status, age, reason for

migration, class, faith.......

 Fragmentation – from many migrants from a

few countries to a few from many

 Super-mobility

Birmingham – archetypal SD city

 On course to become one of Britain’s first

majority/minority cities

 Move from homogenous groups to

superdiversity

 GP registration data shows 41,000 new arrivals

from overseas July 2007 – June 2010

 187 different countries, 25% new/old

Commonwealth

 Poland, China, Romania, Afghanistan, Nigeria,

Somalia, Iran and Iraq now in top 20

 92 countries of origin with 20 or less arrivals  Spread around Birmingham

IRiS

 UK’s first Institute devoted to researching SD  Birmingham as inspiration and laboratory  Platform for collaboration and interdisciplinarity  Build capacity of early career researchers as

diversity experts

 Introduce new methodologies and approaches  Focus on opportunities as well as challenges  Partnership with communities, institutions, and

agencies

 Inform policy and practice  Practitioner Researcher Programme

What is PRP?

 Pilot programme builds on learning from an

established community research programme

 Key work stream within IRiS. Interest from

academics working in a range of disciplines

 New university - practitioner partnerships  Collaboration at the heart of PRP  PRs to identify issues relevant to their work/ org  Mentoring and training to develop ideas into

research proposal/ tools

 Engage and up-skill individuals working in SD

communities in research methods

Purpose of PRP?

 Improve existing data collection systems and/or

develop new lines of enquiry (org level)

 Repository of longitudinal data and evidence on

different aspects of SD grounded in the Birmingham experience (city level)

 Partnership to help shape research agendas and

priorities

 Extend the research reach and impact of IRiS

(UoB)

 First steps to establish and consolidate the PRP

model

SPEED NETWORKING

2 minutes to talk about:

 Your name, organisation and role  Your research interests in relation to new

migration / superdiversity Listen for the bell and then meet the next person!

How can you benefit from being involved?

 Academic mentor

– Gaps in information – research ideas – research proposal – Regular progress meetings & research support

 Training?

– Assess research training needs

 New skills in social research

– Research design, data collection and analysis

 New research tools

– Improve existing monitoring/ evidence base – New insights/ lines of enquiry

Benefits of being involved?

 Opportunity to get involved in funded research/

joint funding applications

 PR Network

– Quarterly networking meetings – Sharing information, ideas, knowledge – University events / seminars – EU Migration to UK, 25th March 2013, UoB. – IRiS civic launch, 13th June 2013, Council House

 Showcase research and organisation at IRiS

events

– Poster session at IRiS International conference July 2014

WORLD CAFÉ DISCUSSION

10 minutes at each table to discuss:

• 1. What type of information do you hold?

Challenges in collecting information?

• 2. What don’t we know and what would we like

to know more about?

• 3. What do you want to get out of the PRP ?

Listen for the bell and then move to the next table

Where next ?

 Collate your information and ideas from the world

café discussion

 Submit an application if interested in the

programme by 13th March 2013

 Review applications and select PRs (end March)  Match PRs with academic mentors (April)  Meet the mentor workshop (May)  Develop research proposals with mentors (Jun/Jul)  IRiS civic launch, 13th June  Review training needs (Aug)  Provide training sessions (Sept/Oct)

Where next?

 Commence data collection (up to 6 mths) (Oct 2013)  Data analysis training (Mar/Apr 2014)  Showcase findings at International conference

university of Birmingham (Jul 2014)

 Develop strategy to take forward research

recommendations

– Lobbying activities – Funding applications – Partnership working etc

 Engage in a new round of research or withdraw

from programme?

QUESTION TIME

Contacts: Lisa Goodson: l.j.goodson@bham.ac.uk Ann Bolstridge: a.bolstridge@bham.ac.uk Jenny Phillimore: j.a.phillimore@bham.ac.uk