Professor of Human Geography @QUBGeography @QUBelfast FAcSS. PI @ESRC Geographies of Ethnic Diversity & Inequalities (GEDI): https://xitter.cf/t.co/vJgUQCQyoR. Mummy.
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Gemma Catney retweeted
I wrote quite a personal piece about racism now and racism then. Have a read…. tortoisemedia.com/2024/10/04…
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Meet our Fellow @gemmacatney, Prof of Human Geography at @QUBGeography @QUBelfast ! A population & social geographer, Gemma’s research focuses on ethnic residential segregation & diversity, ethnic inequalities, & internal migration.
Find out more➡️acss.org.uk/professor-gemma-…
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🚨Spread the news! #PopFest is back & it's being hosted at Southampton, 6-8 Jul 2025. PopFest is a conference organised by & for #postgraduate students. Timeline & further details on website below!
cpc.ac.uk/activities/popfest…
@CPCpopulation @ConnectingGens @UoSSocStatDemo @bspsUK
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They have been honoured for their excellence in research, applied professional use of social science, and significant contributions beyond the academy, including to industry, policy, and higher education.
🧵 Join us in congratulating them below ⬇️
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👏 Congratulations to the geographers recently elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences (@AcadSocSciences)
⬇️ Read more acss.org.uk/news/the-academy…
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📘 It's great to see the work, initially published in our Geographical Journal (@geogjournal) last year, still impacting and informing the discourse about this topic.
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Insights about ethnic segregation from Professor Gemma Catney (@gemmacatney @QUBelfast) and her co-authors have been featured in the Sunday Times (@thetimes) written piece 'How segregated are British cities'.
Read more ⬇️ thetimes.com/article/09fd332…
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Extremely honoured to receive the @bspsUK Early Career Award in Anne Shepherd’s name ❤️ I can’t thank enough all the people who made it possible, thank you for your support,mentoring, friendship. Really enjoyed talking about transitions to adulthood, public engagement,
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Really honoured to have been elected Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences @AcadSocSciences. Many thanks to colleagues for nominating me. It is wonderful to join the Fellowship & support the Academy's aim to highlight the importance of the social sciences
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Congratulations to Professor @gemmacatney and Professor Christopher Lloyd @lloydcd who have been elected as Fellows of the prestigious @AcadSocSciences.
These Fellowships recognise excellence in #SocialSciences research and the part that research plays in shaping societies, helping to make the world a better, and safer, place for everyone.
Find out more: ow.ly/GSmQ50TiLf2
#LoveQUB @QUBGeography @QUBNBE @QUBstaff
ALT Image shows Professor Christopher Lloyd and Professor Gemma Catney. They are pictured in the cloisters at Queen's Lanyon Building.
Gemma Catney retweeted
Congratulations to Professor @gemmacatney and Professor Christopher Lloyd @lloydcd who have been elected as Fellows of the prestigious @AcadSocSciences.
These Fellowships recognise excellence in #SocialSciences research and the part that research plays in shaping societies, helping to make the world a better, and safer, place for everyone.
Find out more: ow.ly/GSmQ50TiLf2
#LoveQUB @QUBGeography @QUBNBE @QUBstaff
ALT Image shows Professor Christopher Lloyd and Professor Gemma Catney. They are pictured in the cloisters at Queen's Lanyon Building.
Gemma Catney retweeted
We are delighted to welcome 45 leading social scientists, who highlight the importance of the #socialsciences in understanding & tackling society’s most pressing challenges, to our Fellowship. Look out for some of our new Fellows later. See the full list➡️ acss.org.uk/news/the-academy…
It is an absolute honour to be elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences @AcadSocSciences. Thank you to colleagues for their nomination and support. I look forward to supporting the crucial work of the Academy in promoting the Social Sciences xitter.cf/AcadSocSciences/status…
New Fellow @gemmacatney is Prof of Human Geography at @QUBGeography, @QUBelfast. Gemma leads the @ESRC funded Geographies of Ethnic Diversity and Inequalities project, which examines, analyses & explains the UK's changing ethnic geographies. Find out more➡️acss.org.uk/news/the-academy…
Excellent article in today's Sunday Times. Increasing ethnic diversity has been accompanied by decreasing segregation.Places labelled as “white minority” are in fact ethnically diverse, with no one group dominating. Detailed coverage of our GEDI research:
xitter.cf/TomHCalver/status/1832…
This week’s column is all about segregation
Some on the right would have us believe that mass migration is making Britain more segregated.
The data shows that just isn’t true: every ethnic group is getting more dispersed…
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@thetimes
thetimes.com/article/09fd332…
Sunday Times article: thetimes.com/article/09fd332…
Using research from GEDI project @geogjournal paper:
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
More on GEDI:
gedi.ac.uk
Gemma Catney retweeted
Anti-immigration rhetoric claims it leads to ethnic ghettos. Statistics tell a different story | ✍️ @tomhcalver
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Gentrification, plus the natural process of integration, has meant migrants who initially congregate in certain areas tend to disperse quickly
And as @gemmacatney has shown, places that some see as “white minority” are in fact ethnically diverse with no group dominating
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What’s going on here?
The relationship between immigration and segregation is complicated. But broadly, segregation appears to initially go up when a few ethnic minorities arrive, but then go down again when the area becomes a lot more diverse….
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Gemma Catney retweeted
Last week Robert Jenrick singled out Birmingham as being home to “intercommunal violence” and “segregated communities”.
Yet Birmingham has become quite a bit less segregated since 2001, *despite* the white British population falling from 66% to 43%…
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Gemma Catney retweeted
This week’s column is all about segregation
Some on the right would have us believe that mass migration is making Britain more segregated.
The data shows that just isn’t true: every ethnic group is getting more dispersed…
1/5
@thetimes
thetimes.com/article/09fd332…
Gemma Catney retweeted
💻In our next Geography in practice webinar, Chris Lloyd (Queens University Belfast) will discuss trajectories of neighbourhood deprivation in England, using the Index of Deprivation (IoD) for several time points across the 21st century.
👉 ow.ly/lpv350TcCcF
