Description: Disadvantaged by where you live? offers a major contribution to academic debates on the neighbourhood both as a sphere of governance and as a point of public service delivery under New Labour since 1997.
Brief description: Ian Smith, Senior Research Fellow, has worked within the Cities Research Centre, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol since 1998. He has worked on a range of evaluation research projects dealing with neighbourhood renewal issues including the National Evaluation for the New Deal for Communities. Eileen Lepine, Research Fellow, joined the Cities Research Centre, UWE in 2002; previously she had worked in the public sector in diverse roles which included neighbourhood community development and neighbourhood management. Marilyn Taylor is Professor of Urban Governance and Regeneration within the Cities Research Centre, UWE. She has written widely for policy and practice audiences on community development, community involvement in partnerships and neighbourhood renewal and is a member of the team carrying out the national evaluation of the Neighbourhood Management Pathfinders.