Research Reports

Collaborative work with local Universities

We work with several of the local universities, the larger scale funded projects and PhD work are noted below.

The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey research at the University of Manchester:
We currently have two CASE studentships collaboratively with the University. These studies are examining the topics of Citizen Involvement in Governance and Urban Renewal and Community Cohesion Eastern European Labour Migration. The Economic and Social Research Council funded PhD projects will contribute to the understanding of the topics in the context of Urban regeneration.

Previous PhD research was carried out in the area concluding in 2005 'Joining up evaluation research: Assessing area regeneration impacts in areas of multiple policy intervention' by Tamara McNeil.

Whilst these PhD studies have actively involved New East Manchester, we support students from many institutions in provision of evidence and access to stakeholders. New East Manchester recognise the uniqueness of the programmes of work that have been and is currently being undertaken in the area and as such encourage academic research to further understand the wider benefits and outcomes for local residents

Health and Well-being

New East Manchester have worked with the Research Institute for Health and Social Change at Manchester Metropolitan University and took an active role as community partner researching well-being in the area. The qualitative work to date comprises two projects:

The Impact of regeneration on the Well-being of local residents: The case of East Manchester

This work was carried out by a research associate co-located with New East Manchester and aims to bridge the gap between the academic understanding of well-being; the practice of delivering improvements in well-being for residents of a regeneration area and the understanding of how residents view their well-being.

The second research project studies well-being and the use of community hubs by residents (a healthy settings approach). This work follows up the previous report in examining how people use the facilities and spaces, how they identify their community hubs and the roles that these play in both their individual well-being and in terms of community cohesion. I

n this instance MMU is also working in collaboration with other academic partners in Urban Regeneration Making a Difference initiative. The work has since been recognised as one of the most successful in this funding stream.