Inequalities, civic loss and well-being

Start date:

October 2019

Funder(s):

Economic and Social Research Council

Status:

Current

Inequalities, civic loss and well-being uses innovative methods, including app-based surveys of spatial mobility and data linkages, to compare place-based and individual measures of accessibility, and explore how changing patterns of civic loss and gain relate to measures of health and well-being.

Start date provided is that of the WISERD Civil Society Centre. Work packages will have their own individual start and end dates that fall within the five-year research programme.

Research team

Andrew Price

Senior Research Assistant

University of South Wales

Gary Higgs

WISERD Co-Director

University of South Wales

Mitch Langford

WISERD Co-Director

University of South Wales

Reports and Briefings

Mapping active travel variations in access to key services in Wales

Introduction Events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic drew attention to the importance of local neighbourhoods as people were encouraged wherever possible to work from home, the physical and mental health benefits of active means of travel were promoted, and communities became more reliant on services in their local areas. At the same time governments around the…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Inequalities, Localities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being | November 2022

Journal Articles

Towards an understanding of inequalities in accessing residential and nursing home provision: The role of geographical approaches

Suggestions of the existence of so-called ‘social care deserts’ in England in the years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic drew attention to the potential impact of geographical inequalities on the availability of residential, nursing and domiciliary care. To date, much of this analysis has been conducted at spatially aggregated scales such as that of…

Civil Society, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Localities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being | February 2022

Applied Spacial Analysis and Policy cover

Journal Articles

Understanding Spatial Variations in Accessibility to Banks Using Variable Floating Catchment Area Techniques

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy: Contemporary Applications for Spatially Integrated Social Science 14(3) pp 449-472 In response to changing consumer habits driven by the advance of online services and mobile apps, substantial reductions in the provision of bank branches have been widely documented over the last decade. Such closures have economic consequences for the sustainability of…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Inequalities, Localities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being | September 2021

Journal Articles

Computing geographical access to services: The design of a client–server solution that incorporates multiple transport modes

Transactions in GIS, 25(4) pp 1849-1867 This study describes the design and implementation of a web‐based infrastructure built on open‐source components to enable the computation of accessibility scores. It can be adapted to any form of service provision that is represented as geo‐located points. The solution aims to extend previous attempts to measure and analyse…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Inequalities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being | March 2021

Presentation

The Design and Development of a client-server based tool to Compute Accessibility to Sporting Facilities in Wales

Presented by the authors at GIS Research UK Conference 2020 This paper draws on a new database of gymnastics facilities, the use of Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (E2SFCA) techniques, to measure potential accessibility for both private and public transport networks using a web-based tool to collect the network distances for the transport. Plans to incorporate…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Localities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being | July 2020

Civil Society Centre booklet cover - Civic Stratification and Civil Repair

Reports and Briefings

WISERD Civil Society – Changing Perspectives on Civic Stratification and Civil Repair

Read more about all the work packages in this booklet. You can download here or contact the WISERD Communications Officer for hard copies, email: WISERD.Comms@cardiff.ac.uk.

Civil Society | Borders, boundary mechanisms and migration, Children and young people’s rights: formal and informal constructions of citizenship, Civil society, and place-based strategies for sustainable development, Experts, expertise and citizen science: a case study of air quality monitoring, Foundational economy, citizenship and new forms of common ownership, Identity and civic divides in the UK, Inequalities, civic loss and well-being, Machines, platforms and capabilities, New arenas for civic expansion: humans, animals, and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), New repertoires of contention and social mobilisation: shifting dynamics of civic stratification and the marketisation of social justice in the energy transition, Patronage, elites and power relations, Populism, conflict and political polarisation, Shifting forms of governance and the grassroots politics of separatism, Trade unions, grass roots activism and solidarity, Trust, human rights and civil society within mixed economies of welfare | February 2020

News

Mode of transport influences access to recreational opportunities

18th January 2023 | Andrew Price, Gary Higgs, Mitch Langford

A new WISERD paper by Andrew Price, Mitchel Langford and Gary Higgs at the University of South Wales has recently been published in the journal, Case Studies on Transport Policy. Using sports facility data from Sport Wales and open-source data on green spaces, the team examine variations in potential access to recreational opportunities by different…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Localities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being

News

WISERD researchers create new website to examine access to key services in Wales

10th November 2022 | Andrew Price, Gary Higgs, Mitch Langford

A prototype website has been developed by WISERD researchers based at the GIS Research Centre at the University of South Wales (USW) which examines access to key services in Wales. This is part of an ongoing research programme investigating geographical access to services in Wales. The website allows users to see indicators of accessibility to…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Inequalities, Localities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being

News

New article published on measuring accessibility to banking services

9th August 2022 | Andrew Price, Gary Higgs, Mitch Langford

A new, open access journal article on measuring accessibility to banking services by Dr Mitchel Langford, Andrew Price and Professor Gary Higgs from the University of South Wales, has been published in the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. The article demonstrates how accessibility can be measured to bank branches by different times of day and…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Inequalities, Localities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being

Blog

Deprived areas hit hardest by changes in access to bus services during the pandemic

8th April 2022 | Andrew Price, Gary Higgs, Mitch Langford

Public transport was severely impacted during COVID-19 as people’s daily mobility patterns changed. This led to a substantial drop in demand as many workers were instructed to work from home and social distancing measures were introduced on existing services. Department for Transport statistics show a decline from 91 to 26 million passenger journeys on local…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Localities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being

News

Investigating geographical inequalities in access to residential and nursing home provision

28th February 2022 | Gary Higgs, Mitch Langford

A new WISERD paper draws attention to how geographical approaches can contribute to an understanding of inequalities in access to nursing and residential care places in Wales. This research has been carried out by WISERD co-directors, Professor Gary Higgs and Dr Mitchel Langford, along with WISERD Associate, Professor Mark Llewellyn, Director of the Welsh Institute…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities, Localities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being

Blog

Is there a geography of volunteering in Wales?

13th August 2021 | Gary Higgs

In Wales as elsewhere, the role of volunteers has been brought to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic as people offered their services to help address the needs of vulnerable groups within their communities. Concerns surrounding the sustainability of such volunteering efforts have drawn attention to the types of infrastructure that could help facilitate and…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Localities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being

Blog

Monitoring inequalities in physical activity opportunities in a post-COVID Wales

18th March 2021 | Gary Higgs, Mitch Langford

Local authorities in Wales have had to make difficult decisions to close or rationalise a wide range of services in response to changes in the incidence of COVID-19. This has had major impacts for those sectors of the community most dependent on various forms of service provision. Where there have been partial closures involving changes…

Civil Society, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities | Inequalities, civic loss and well-being

Themes:

Civil Society

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