Presenter: Professor Phil Rees (Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Leeds)
Title: “Macro and micro models for understanding change in population diversity at local and small area scales”
Time: 13.00 – 14.15
Place: Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building (AL 2.012)
Bio:
Philip Rees is Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at the
University of Leeds. He is a leading authority on demographic accounting
and projection methods for multi-state systems. From 1992 to 2002, he
co-ordinated the
ESRC Census Programme, which opened up access to secondary census
data for academic researchers, making the UK a data-rich environment
for social science research, being awarded a CBE in recognition. From
2003 to 2007, he was a member of ESRC’s Research
Resources Board and helped set up the ESRC’s successful research
programme on
Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP). He was the principal investigator for the 2007-10 UPTAP project on
Ethnic Group Population Trends and Projections for UK Local Areas which showed how much ethnic diversity in the UK will change by 2051 (Fig. 1). He led the Leeds team in the
Demographic and Migratory Flows Affecting the Regions and Cities of Europe (DEMIFER)
ESPON 2013 project, which produced forecasts of the national and
regional populations of Europe under four policy scenarios and assessed
how many people might be affected
by climate change (Fig. 2). He directed the Strand 1 research within
the N8 Research Partnership’s project on
The impacts of demographic change in the functional economies of the North of England,
which forecasts the impact of ageing on the demand for health care for
local authorities and LEPs in northern England (Fig. 3). He continues to
be active in conference
presentations, journal paper writing and national advisory committees
such as the Department of Health’s Advisory Committee on Resource
Allocation for the NHS in England.
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