Geography
Dr Richard Harris
BSc, MSc, PhD(Bristol)
Senior Lecturer
Head of Undergraduate School
Contact
Office: 2.14N
Tel: +44 (0)117 954 6973
Fax: +44 (0)117 9287878
Email: rich.harris@bristol.ac.uk
Research interests
I trained as a social geographer looking at the application of quantitative methods including spatial statistics and geodemographics in marketing and public policy. There I became interested in how space is conceived and incorporated in statistical models and in geographical data handling, and about the various presumptions entailed: for example, notions of agency and structure, of social interaction and the generation of 'neighbourhood effects'. More recently my work has returned to economics, informed by 'mixed methods', focusing on choice and markets in educational systems and ways to support the transition of pupils from primary to secondary schools. I also have a growing interest in the relationship between faith and political governance, with an emphasis on Christianity and the Church of England, and the influence of Christianity on environmental politics.
Selected publications
Harris, RJ & Johnston, RJ. 'Primary Schools, Markets and Choice: Studying Polarization and the Core Catchment Areas of Schools', Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 1 (1), (pp. 59-84), 2008. ISSN: 1874-463X 10.1007/s12061-008-9002-8
Harris, RJ. 'Qualitative Analysis', in Kemp, KK (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science, (pp. 355-357), Sage, 2007. ISBN: 9781412913133
Harris, RJ, Johnston, RJ & Burgess, SM. 'Neighborhoods, ethnicity and school choice: developing a statistical framework for geodemographic analysis', Population Research and Policy Review, 26 (5-6), (pp. 553-579), 2007. ISSN: 0167-5923 10.1007/s11113-007-9042-9