Professor Rowland Atkinson

School of Geography and Planning

Research Chair in Inclusive Societies

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Professor Rowland Atkinson
School of Geography and Planning
D26b
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
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Rowland is Chair in Inclusive Societies. His work focuses on urban inequalities, addressing issues of exclusion and social injustice. This work is approached in a distinctive way, by examining the relationship between affluent groups and social outcomes more broadly in city settings. This framing of social inequality as both an urban-spatial and political issue has underpinned his pioneering working on gentrification and displacement, gated communities, social mix and public housing estates, and the impact of the super-rich on urban life. The thread connecting this body of work is an important question - how do social inequalities find spatial expression in cities? This work is situated sociologically, with an eye to the kinds of globalised, capitalist and financialised societies that are today producing new winners, and complex forms of spatial inequality and exclusion in cities. 

Rowland’s books include  (Verso),  (with Gareth Millington) and  (with Sarah Blandy) and a large series of edited collections in the areas of housing studies, urban studies and criminology. His most recent books are Elite Spaces: Social prestige, spatial obscurity and political risk, and (with Beth Perry and Jon Silver) which looks at small efforts that might help cities to be more liveable, less alienating and less driven by profit and accumulation. 

From 1997 Rowland began work as a researcher in the Department of Urban Studies, at the University of Glasgow, where he looked at issues of housing conditions and so-called ‘area effects’ (the compounding force of disadvantage faced by poorer residents in poorer areas). It was while conducting research on deprived public housing estates that he began to develop an interest in elite spaces and groups, and to consider how certain social classes and spaces might be related to housing poverty and exclusion. This interest led to the first UK study of gated communities which began a more detailed consideration of how middle-class and higher income households were shaping social outcomes across cities. 

Since starting work at the ±¬ÁÏTV in 2014 (after working in the departments of sociology at both the University of Tasmania, Australia, and then the University of York) his work has involved a linked suite of research projects under the title of the Global Alpha NETwork, or GANET. This has included funded projects on alpha territoriality in London, and Hong Kong, empty homes in the UK (working with ), projects on offshore investment and illicit finance in urban spaces and its links to crime (focused on in his book ), and an emerging analysis of the historical contribution of wealth elites in the urban north of England. He is currently working on a book on social fragmentation and decline.

Professor Rowland Atkinson talks about teaching in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the ±¬ÁÏTV
Qualifications

From 2005 I directed the Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania, Australia, where a very different urban context and issues of indigenous health and housing influenced my thinking. My work here continued to focus on issues of gentrification, public housing and state-led strategies of social mixing to create more sustainable communities and I worked on a series of initiatives designed to generate more interest in these issues from policy-makers nationally.

From 2009 I moved back to the UK to the University of York where I became Reader in Urban Studies and Criminology and my work became more focused on questions of social harm and crime in urban contexts (a book on Urban Criminology, with Gareth Millington, is now in print with Routledge).

Research interests
  • Gentrification and displacement
  • Cities and crime
  • Wealth
  • Poverty and exclusion
  • Segregation and urban security
  • Gated communities and fortress homes

Research projects

Professor Rowland Atkinson talks about his research
Publications

Books

  • Atkinson R (2020) FOREWORD: CLIMAX CULTURE.
  • (2017) . Bristol University Press.
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) Domestic fortress: Fear and the new home front. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) House, Home and Society. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Edited books

  • Atkinson R & Ayres T (Ed.) (2022) . Routledge.
  • (Ed.) (2017) Building better societies: Promoting social justice in a world falling apart..
  • Atkinson R (Ed.) (2014) . London: Routledge.
  • Winlow S & Atkinson R (Ed.) (2013) . London: Routledge.
  • (Ed.) (2007) . Policy Press.
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (Ed.) (2006) Gated Communities: International Perspectives. Taylor and Francis / Routledge.
  • Atkinson RG & Blandy S (Ed.) (2006) Gated Communities: International Perspectives. London: Taylor and Francis.
  • Atkinson R & Bridge G (Ed.) (2004) . London: Routledge.

Journal articles

  • Atkinson R (2026) . The British Journal of Criminology.
  • Liu Y & Atkinson R (2025) . Urban Studies, 62(2), 347-366.
  • Atkinson R, Higgins K & Bourne J (2024) . Finance and Space, 1(1), 299-317.
  • Tarazona-Vento A & Atkinson R (2024) . City, 28(3-4), 419-436.
  • Atkinson R & Mingay M (2024) . City, 28(3-4), 495-511.
  • McKenzie R, Atkinson R & Ingianni A (2024) . Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 56(2), 367-381.
  • Atkinson R & O’Farrell L (2024) . Urban Studies, 61(14), 2686-2702.
  • Jacobs K, Atkinson R & Warr D (2024) . Housing Studies, 39(4), 962-979.
  • Hall A, Antonopoulos GA, Atkinson R & Wyatt T (2023) . The British Journal of Criminology, 63(2), 265-282.
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2022) . Housing, Theory and Society, 39(2), 147-150.
  • Morales ER, Atkinson R & Higgins K (2022) . Journal of Urban Design, 27(3), 328-347.
  • Atkinson R (2020) . Housing Studies, 35(8), 1489-1491.
  • Parker S & Atkinson RG (2020) . British Politics, 15(2), 160-177.
  • McKenzie R & Atkinson R (2020) . Urban Studies, 57(1), 21-38.
  • Atkinson RG (2019) . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 43(1), 2-13.
  • van Draanen J (2019) . Basic Income Studies, 14(1).
  • Hardey M & Atkinson RG (2018) . Sociological Research Online, 23(3), 553-571.
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2018) . Urban Studies, 55(2), 483-486.
  • Ho H & Atkinson RG (2018) . Urban Studies, 55(9), 2040-2056.
  • Atkinson RG, Parker S & Burrows R (2017) . Theory, Culture & Society, 34(5-6), 179-200.
  • Atkinson R, Parker S & Morales ER (2017) . Territory Politics Governance, 5(4), 443-458.
  • Atkinson RG & Rodgers T (2016) . British Journal of Criminology, 56(6), 1291-1307.
  • Burrows R, Webber R & Atkinson RG (2016) . Sociological Review.
  • Atkinson R (2015) . Environment and Planning A.
  • Atkinson R (2015) . British Journal of Criminology, 55(5), 866-882.
  • Atkinson R (2015) . Housing, Theory and Society, 32(4), 373-388.
  • Howley P, O’Neill S & Atkinson R (2015) . Environment and Planning A, 47(4), 939-956.
  • Atkinson RG (2011) Ears have walls: The listening body in urban space. Aether, 7, 20-28.
  • Atkinson R & Beer D (2010) . City, 14(5), 529-544.
  • Dowling R, Atkinson R & McGuirk P (2010) . Urban Policy and Research, 28(4), 391-410.
  • Atkinson R, Taylor E & Walter M (2010) . Social & Legal Studies, 19(3), 311-330.
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2010) . International Journal of Housing Policy, 10(2), 155-171.
  • Anacker KB (2009) . Journal of Urban Affairs, 31(4), 511-512.
  • Atkinson R (2009) . Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography, 91(4), 299-310.
  • Atkinson R & Willis P (2009) . City, 13(4), 403-417.
  • Johnston R (2009) . Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 100(3), 370-371.
  • Atkinson R & Easthope H (2009) . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(1), 64-79.
  • Atkinson R, Picken F & Tranter B (2009) . Urban Research & Practice, 2(1), 1-17.
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2009) . Antipode, 41(1), 92-110.
  • Atkinson R, Dowling R & McGuirk P (2009) . Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 41(12), 2816-2822.
  • Atkinson R (2008) . Urban Studies, 45(12), 2626-2636.
  • Atkinson R (2008) . Social Policy & Administration, 42(6), 593-610.
  • Atkinson R (2008) Housing policies, social mix and community outcomes. Ahuri Final Report(122), i-58.
  • Jacobs K & Atkinson R (2008) . Housing, Theory and Society, 25(3), 157-163.
  • Atkinson R & Easthope H (2008) . Built Environment, 34(3), 307-318.
  • Helms G, Atkinson R & MacLeod G (2007) . European Urban and Regional Studies, 14(4), 267-276.
  • Atkinson R (2007) . Urban Studies, 44(10), 1905-1917.
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2007) . Housing Studies, 22(4), 443-458.
  • Atkinson R, Bagaeen S, Birch K, Flint J, Mitchell D & Paton K (2007) . Urban Studies, 44(8), 1619-1629.
  • Chapman D, Nelson S, Higgins M, Tolbert LC, Steinfeld E, Biddulph M, Holyoak J, Tait M, Sinha A, Thomas G , Atkinson R et al (2007) . Journal of Urban Design, 12(2), 313-337.
  • Atkinson R & Wood G (2007) . Australian Planner, 44(4), 12-13.
  • Atkinson R & Willis P (2007) . Information, Communication & Society, 10(6), 818-845.
  • Atkinson R (2006) . Urban Studies, 43(4), 819-832.
  • Thomson H, Atkinson R, Petticrew M & Kearns A (2006) . Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60(2), 108-115.
  • Atkinson R, Thomson H, Kearns A & Petticrew M (2006) . Policy & Politics, 34(1), 5-26.
  • Atkinson R, Blandy S, Flint J & Lister D (2005) . Town Planning Review, 76(4), 401-422.
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2005) . Housing Studies, 20(2), 177-186.
  • Atkinson R (2004) . European Journal of Housing Policy, 4(1), 107-131.
  • Atkinson R & Flint J (2004) . Criminal Justice Matters, 55(1), 10-11.
  • Atkinson R & Flint J (2004) . Housing Studies, 19(6), 875-892.
  • Atkinson R & Kintrea K (2004) . Sociology, 38(3), 437-455.
  • Goodlad R & Atkinson R (2004) . Housing Studies, 19(3), 447-463.
  • Savitch HV, Atkinson R, Portney KE, McGreal S, Rbein C, Harwood SA, Hultquist A, Greenbaum RT & Dodson B (2004) . Urban Studies, 41(3), 697-712.
  • Atkinson R & Flint J (2004) . Policy & Politics, 32(3), 333-350.
  • Atkinson R (2003) . Urban Studies, 40(12), 2343-2350.
  • Atkinson R (2003) . Urban Studies, 40(9), 1829-1843.
  • Atkinson R & Kintrea K (2002) . European Journal of Housing Policy, 2(2), 147-166.
  • Parkes A, Kearns A & Atkinson R (2002) . Urban Studies, 39(13), 2413-2438.
  • Atkinson R & Kintrea K (2001) . Urban Studies, 38(12), 2277-2298.
  • Atkinson R & Flint J (2001) Accessing hidden and hard to reach populations: snowball research strategies. Social Research Update, 33.
  • Atkinson R (2000) . Area, 32(3), 287-295.
  • Atkinson R (2000) . Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 15(4), 307-326.
  • Atkinson R (2000) . Urban Studies, 37(1), 149-165.
  • Atkinson R & Kintrea K (2000) . Policy & Politics, 28(1), 93-108.
  • Dowall DE, Magnusson L, Fujita K, Santana DB, Atkinson R, Milligan C, Jacobs K & Macaloo C (1999) . Urban Studies, 36(10), 1819-1831.
  • Boal FW, Priemus H, Taylor N, Atkinson R, Coles T, Thomas H, Riley R, Kapcia A, Bagguley P & Wilson MGA (1998) . Urban Studies, 35(12), 2369-2387.
  • Atkinson R (1997) The new urban frontier; Gentrification and the revanchist city - Smith,N. SCANDINAVIAN HOUSING & PLANNING RESEARCH, 14(2), 93-95.
  • Elander I, Marsh A, Atkinson R & Lowe SG (1997) . Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research, 14(2), 87-98.
  • Atkinson R, Galster GC, Rosengard A, Ho KC, Smith R, Ashworth GJ, Lightbody J, Gilchrist E & Puddifoot J (1995) . Urban Studies, 32(7), 1215-1227.
  • ATKINSON R (1995) PAPERING OVER THE CRACKS - HOUSING CONDITIONS AND THE NATIONS HEALTH - LEATHER,P, MACKINTOSH,S, ROLFE,S. URBAN STUDIES, 32(2), 428-430.
  • Cook EA, Jankowitz S & Atkinson R () . European Urban and Regional Studies.

Book chapters

  • Ferrazzi D & Atkinson R (2024) , Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society (pp. 284-295). Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Atkinson R (2023) , 50 Dark Destinations (pp. 299-304). Policy Press
  • Blandy S & Atkinson R (2022) , The Routledge Handbook of Property, Law and Society (pp. 146-155). Routledge
  • Atkinson R (2022) , Shades of Deviance (pp. 167-170). Routledge
  • Atkinson R (2022) , Shades of Deviance (pp. 183-186). Routledge
  • Atkinson R & Ayres T (2022) , Shades of Deviance (pp. 3-17). Routledge
  • (2022) , How the other half lives Manchester University Press
  • Atkinson R & Kei Ho H (2020) , Handbook of Urban Segregation Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Atkinson R (2020) FOREWORD: CLIMAX CULTURE, VIDEO GAMES, CRIME AND NEXT-GEN DEVIANCE (pp. XIII-XVII).
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2020) , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. 259-263). Elsevier
  • Atkinson R & McGarrigle J (2020) , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. 119-123). Elsevier
  • Atkinson R (2019) In Raymen T & Smith O (Ed.), Deviant Leisure : Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm (pp. 215-236). Palgrave Macmillan (Springer)
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2019) , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. Vol5-V263).
  • Atkinson R & McGarrigle J (2019) , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. Vol12-Vo123).
  • Atkinson R (2017) The (in)visibility of riches, urban life and exclusion, Building Better Societies Promoting Social Justice in A World Falling Apart (pp. 165-178).
  • Atkinson R, Mckenzie L & Winlow S (2017) (pp. 195-200). Bristol University Press
  • Atkinson R, Mckenzie L & Winlow S (2017) (pp. 1-12). Bristol University Press
  • Atkinson R, Mckenzie L & Winlow S (2017) , Building Better Societies (pp. 1-12). Policy Press
  • Atkinson R, Mckenzie L & Winlow S (2017) , Building Better Societies (pp. 1-12). Policy Press
  • Atkinson R, Mckenzie L & Winlow S (2017) , Building Better Societies (pp. 195-200). Policy Press
  • Atkinson R, Mckenzie L & Winlow S (2017) , Building Better Societies (pp. 195-200). Policy Press
  • Atkinson R, Burrows R, Glucksberg L, Ho HK, Knowles C & Rhodes D (2017) , Cities and the Super-Rich (pp. 253-271). Palgrave Macmillan US
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2017) Domestic fortress Fear and the new home front Introduction, DOMESTIC FORTRESS: FEAR AND THE NEW HOME FRONT (pp. 1-+).
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic Fortress Manchester University Press
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic Fortress Manchester University Press
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic Fortress Manchester University Press
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic Fortress Manchester University Press
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic Fortress Manchester University Press
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic Fortress Manchester University Press
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic Fortress Manchester University Press
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic Fortress Manchester University Press
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic Fortress Manchester University Press
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 110-128). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 140-152). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson R, Burrows R & Rhodes D (2016) , Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Atkinson RG (2016) , Networked Urbanism Social Capital in the City (pp. 41-58).
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 56-71). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 1-15). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 97-109). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 83-96). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 129-139). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 72-82). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 153-160). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 32-45). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 16-31). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2016) , House, Home and Society (pp. 46-55). Macmillan Education UK
  • Wykes M (2014) , Shades of Deviance A Primer on Crime Deviance and Social Harm (pp. 143-146).
  • Atkinson R (2014) In Atkinson R (Ed.), Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm (pp. 162-165). London: Routledge.
  • Atkinson R (2014) In Atkinson R (Ed.), Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm (pp. 24-26). London: Routledge.
  • Atkinson R (2014) In Atkinson R (Ed.), Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm (pp. 1-14). London: Routledge.
  • Atkinson R (2014) In Atkinson R (Ed.), Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm (pp. 241-243). London: Routledge.
  • Atkinson R & Bridge G (2013) , Gentrification Debates A Reader (pp. 51-62).
  • Atkinson R & Bridge G (2013) In Brown-Saracino J (Ed.), The Gentrification Debates (pp. 51-70). New York: Routledge.
  • Atkinson R (2013) In Atkinson R & Winlow S (Ed.), New Directions in Crime and Deviancy (pp. 239-251). London: Routledge.
  • Winlow S & Atkinson R (2013) In Atkinson R & Winlow S (Ed.), New Directions in Crime and Deviancy (pp. 1-18). London: Routledge.
  • Atkinson R (2011) , International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home (pp. 269-274).
  • Atkinson R (2011) , International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home (pp. 415-418).
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2009) , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. 297-301). Elsevier
  • Atkinson R & McGarrigle J (2009) , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. 76-80). Elsevier
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2009) , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Volume 1 12 (pp. V4-V4-301).
  • Atkinson R & McGarrigle J (2009) , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Volume 1 12 (pp. V10-V10-80).
  • Atkinson RG (2008) The flowing enclave and the misanthropy of networked affluence In Blokland T & Savage M (Ed.), Networked Urbanism: Social Capital in the City (pp. 41-58). Ashgate
  • Helms G & Atkinson R (2007) , Securing an urban renaissanceCrime, community, and British urban policy (pp. 233-244). Policy Press
  • Atkinson R & Helms G (2007) , Securing an urban renaissanceCrime, community, and British urban policy (pp. 1-18). Policy Press
  • Atkinson R (2006) (pp. 99-116). Bristol University Press
  • Rowland A (2006) , Housing, urban governance and anti-social behaviourPerspectives, policy and practice (pp. 100-116). Policy Press
  • Atkinson R (2006) , Building on the pastVisions of housing futures (pp. 162-184). Policy Press
  • Atkinson RG (2006) Mob-mentality: The threat to community sustainability from the search for safety In Malpass P & Cairncross L (Ed.), Building on the Past: Visions of Housing Futures (pp. 163-184). Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Atkinson RG (2006) Housing and the new spaces of disciplinary control In Flint J (Ed.), Housing, Urban Governance and Anti-social Behaviour Perspectives, Policy and Practice (pp. 91-116). Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Atkinson R, Buck N & Kintrea K (2005) , Changing Cities (pp. 154-171). Macmillan Education UK
  • Atkinson RG, Buck N & Kintrea K (2005) British neighbourhoods and poverty: linking place and social exclusion In Buck N, Gordon I, Harding A & Turok I (Ed.), Changing Cities: Rethinking Urban Competitiveness, Cohesion and Governance (pp. 154-171). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Atkinson R & Bridge G (2004) In Atkinson R & Bridge G (Ed.), Gentrification in a Global Context (pp. 1-17). London: Routledge.
  • Turok I, Bailey N, Atkinson R, Bramley G, Docherty I, Gibb K, Goodlad R, Hastings A, Kintrea K, Kirk K , Leibovitz J et al (2004) (pp. 13-32). Bristol University Press
  • Turok I, Bailey N, Atkinson R, Bramley G, Docherty I, Gibb K, Goodlad R, Hastings A, Kintrea K, Kirk K , Leibovitz J et al (2004) , City matters (pp. 13-32). Policy Press
  • Turok I, Bailey N, Atkinson R, Bramley G, Docherty I, Gibb K, Goodlad R, Hastings A, Kintrea K, Kirk K , Leibovitz J et al (2004) , City matters (pp. 13-32). Policy Press
  • Turok I, Bailey N, Atkinson R, Bramley G, Docherty I, Gibb K, Goodlad R, Hastings A, Kintrea K, Kirk K , Leibovitz J et al (2004) , City mattersCompetitiveness, cohesion and urban governance (pp. 12-31). Policy Press

Book reviews

  • Atkinson R (2016) . Urban Studies, 53(6), 1336-1338.
  • Atkinson R () . Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal.

Conference proceedings

  • Morales ER, Atkinson R & Higgins K (2022) Road - gate - enclosure: elite securityscapes in London and Mexico City. JOURNAL OF PLANNING LITERATURE, Vol. 37(4) (pp 650-650)
  • (2020) Humanity under duress. Humanity Under Duress. Sheffield, 2019 - 2019.
  • Morales García de Alba E & Atkinson R (2019) Defragmenting public space : a guide for policymakers. Defragmenting Public Space: A Guide for Policymakers, 2019 - 2019.
  • Flint J, Atkinson R, Ferrari E, Gore T & Lever J (2016) . People, Place and Policy, Vol. 10(2) (pp 174-184)
  • Atkinson R & Smith O (2012) . Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, Vol. 8(2) (pp 161-172)
  • Atkinson R & Jacobs K (2009) . Housing, Theory and Society, Vol. 26(4) (pp 233-247)
  • Atkinson R (2008) Between practice, policy and academia: The difficult space of the housing researcher. Reshaping Australasian Housing Research Refereed Papers and Presentations from the 2nd Australasian Housing Researchers Conference 2007 Ahrc 2007
  • Atkinson J (2008) (pp 1-11)
  • Atkinson R, Picken F & Tranter B (2006) Second homes in Australia: Charting the growth of holiday homeownership and its community impacts. Australasian Housing Researchers Conference

Reports

  • Atkinson R, Lima R, Bourne J & Bailey C (2024) Executive Summary: Low-use homes in rural and coastal areas of the UK: Geography, impact and responses
  • Atkinson R, Simas Lima R, Bourne J & Bailey C (2024) Low-use homes in rural and coastal areas of the UK: Geography, impact and responses
  • Atkinson R, Wulff M, Reynolds M & Spinney A (2011) Gentrification and displacement: The household impacts of neighbourhood change
  • Atkinson R (2008) Housing policies, social mix and community outcomes

Dictionary or encyclopaedia entries

  • Atkinson R (2012) . In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home Elsevier.
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2012) . In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home Elsevier.
  • Atkinson R (2012) . In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home Elsevier.
  • Atkinson R & Blandy S (2011) . In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home.
  • (2004) Sage Publications, Inc..
  • Atkinson R & Flint J (2003) Snowball Sampling. In The A to Z of Social Research. London: Sage.

Other

  • Thomson H, Atkinson R, Petticrew M & Kearns A (2005) Do national urban regeneration programmes impact on health and the socio-economic determinants of health? A systematic review of UK regeneration programmes (1980-2004). EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 15, 119-119.

Preprints

  • Liu Y & Atkinson R (2023) , Elsevier BV.
Research group

PhD supervision

I am primary supervisor for the following students:

  • Dario Ferrazzi, Crime, criminality and urban space
  • Yixin Liu, Gated communities in China

Interested in PhD study?

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who have interests in the following areas:

  • urban patterns of wealth, inequality and segregation
  • crime and disorder
  • gated communities
Teaching activities

I currently teach on the following modules:

  • , Cities
  • , Urban Theory
  • , Dissertation

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