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Ade Kearns - BA Hons
Ade Kearns is Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, which he joined as a Research Fellow in 1987. He has conducted policy-related research into a wide range of housing and urban issues. His current research interests include: community mix, neighbourhood quality and social cohesion; patterns and impacts of ethnic residential segregation; neighbourhood change, health and well-being; the impacts of residential turnover.

Ade is also the Director of the ESRC/ODPM Postgraduate Research Programme which funds a number of Postdoctoral Research Fellows and PhD students at various higher education institutions in the UK to support the Government's Sustainable Communities policy agenda.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Parkes,A. and Kearns,A. (2006) 'The multi-dimensional neighbourhood and health', Health and Place, Vol. 12/1, 1-18.

Kearns,A. and Parkes,A. (2003) 'Living in and leaving poor neighbourhood conditions in England', Housing Studies, Vol. 18 No.6.

Kearns,A. and Turok,I. (2003) Sustainable Communities: Dimensions and Challenges. Liverpool John Moores University: ESRC Cities Programme and Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Parkes,A., Kearns,A. and Atkinson,R. (2002) 'What makes people dissatisfied with their neighbourhoods?', Urban Studies, 39:13, 2413-2438.

Kearns,A. and Parkinson,M. (2001) 'The significance of neighbourhood', Urban Studies ,Vol. 38 No.12,2103-2110.

Forrest,R. and Kearns,A. (2001) 'Social cohesion, social capital and the neighbourhood', Urban Studies ,Vol. 38 No.12, 2125-2143.
Ade Kearns