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'The well-behaved child between two noisy big brothers?' -emergent practices of scalecraft within the in-between spaces of city-regionalism (2025)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., & Peacock, A. (2025). 'The well-behaved child between two noisy big brothers?' -emergent practices of scalecraft within the in-between spaces of city-regionalism. Space and Polity, 134-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2025.2539747

The emergence of city regions reflects ongoing processes of restructuring and rescaling of nation states vis a vis attempts to secure economic growth and global competitiveness. Such spaces are often structurally and spatially privileged by the state... Read More about 'The well-behaved child between two noisy big brothers?' -emergent practices of scalecraft within the in-between spaces of city-regionalism.

The neglected spaces of economic rescaling: Insights into the in-between spaces of city-regionalism (2023)
Journal Article
Peacock, A., & Pemberton, S. (in press). The neglected spaces of economic rescaling: Insights into the in-between spaces of city-regionalism. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544231207261

Over the last twenty years considerable attention has focused on the territorial restructuring and rescaling of the state. In particular, there has been an emphasis on city-regionalism to enhance the capacity of formal and more informal structures of... Read More about The neglected spaces of economic rescaling: Insights into the in-between spaces of city-regionalism.

The actions of key agents in facilitating rural super-gentrification: Evidence from the English countryside (2023)
Journal Article
Sheppard, D., & Pemberton, S. (2023). The actions of key agents in facilitating rural super-gentrification: Evidence from the English countryside. Journal of Rural Studies, 97, 485 - 494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.01.004

Whilst the process of gentrification in rural spaces is widely recognised, there has been less focus to date on the emergence of rural super-gentrification - defined as the displacement of the wealthy from rural communities by the super-wealthy. Of t... Read More about The actions of key agents in facilitating rural super-gentrification: Evidence from the English countryside.

Superdiversity and Urban Planning (2022)
Book Chapter
Pemberton, S. Superdiversity and Urban Planning. In The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (43-58). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544938.013.9

AbstractPrevious research exploring the relationship between diversity and urban planning has overwhelmingly focused on the multicultural city. In contrast, there has been much less focus to date on the challenges of increasing superdiversity for urb... Read More about Superdiversity and Urban Planning.

Rapid charging provision, multiplicity and battery electric vehicle (BEV) mobility in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., Nobajas, A., & Waller, R. (2021). Rapid charging provision, multiplicity and battery electric vehicle (BEV) mobility in the UK. Journal of Transport Geography, 95, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103137

This paper provides significant new insights into the spatial heterogeneity of public rapid charging provision for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) in the UK. In particular, the paper makes three new and original contributions to our understanding of... Read More about Rapid charging provision, multiplicity and battery electric vehicle (BEV) mobility in the UK.

Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods (2021)
Book
Pemberton. (2021). Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods. (1). Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003111504

Migration-driven diversity means European cities are becoming increasingly superdiverse. Some European neighbourhoods have become places where newcomers arrive from across the world, speaking many different languages, from a range of socio-economic b... Read More about Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods.

EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: A new conceptual framework (2021)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., Hof, H., & Pietka-Nykaza, E. (2021). EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: A new conceptual framework. Comparative Migration Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00225-5

Challenges of weak economic growth, population decline, and labour shortages led many countries across the world to introduce immigration policy changes in order to attract foreign migrants. This paper focuses on Japan (Tokyo) and the UK (Birmingham,... Read More about EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: A new conceptual framework.

‘Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy: a proposed research agenda (2021)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., Tripathy Furlong, B., Scanlan, O., Koubi, V., Guhathakurta, M., Hossain, M., Warner, J., & Roth, D. (2021). ‘Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy: a proposed research agenda. Geoforum, 192-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.02.004

This paper brings work on mobility and ‘staying’ together with theoretical ideas of resilience to consider responses to climate change. To date, the majority of work that has explored the impacts of climate change on human populations has taken a mig... Read More about ‘Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy: a proposed research agenda.

(Re-)negotiating the process of staying in superdiverse places (2020)
Journal Article
Pemberton. (2020). (Re-)negotiating the process of staying in superdiverse places. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1822157

Little attention has been focused on how the differing features of ‘superdiverse’ neighbourhoods shape the demographic process of ‘staying’. Through drawing on research conducted in two different superdiverse neighbourhoods in the city of Birmingham,... Read More about (Re-)negotiating the process of staying in superdiverse places.

After encounters: Revealing patients’ unseen work through their pathways to care (2020)
Journal Article
Samerski, S., Padilla, B., Pemberton, S., Humphris, R., & Brady, H. (2020). After encounters: Revealing patients’ unseen work through their pathways to care. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 173-187. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-07-2019-0066

Research has long focused on the notion of access and the trajectory towards a healthcare encounter but has neglected what happens to patients after these initial encounters. This paper focuses attention on what happens after an initial healthcare en... Read More about After encounters: Revealing patients’ unseen work through their pathways to care.

Fenced Fisheries, Eurasian Otters (Lutra lutra) and Licenced Trapping: An Impact Assessment (2020)
Journal Article
Nobajas, A., Pemberton, S., Webb, D., Davoile, J., Wright, L., & Allen, D. (2020). Fenced Fisheries, Eurasian Otters (Lutra lutra) and Licenced Trapping: An Impact Assessment

The endangered Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) became a protected species in England and Wales in 1978. The gradual recovery of the species coincides with the rise in specimen fishing on stillwater fisheries and increased concerns about predation. Altho... Read More about Fenced Fisheries, Eurasian Otters (Lutra lutra) and Licenced Trapping: An Impact Assessment.

The paradox of mobility for older people in the rural-urban fringe (2019)
Journal Article
Peacock, A., & Pemberton, S. (2019). The paradox of mobility for older people in the rural-urban fringe. Journal of Rural Studies, 9 -18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.08.002

Whilst considerable focus has been placed on mobility in rural and urban areas, there has been little attention to date on individuals' experiences and practices of mobility in the rural-urban fringe (RUF). This is surprising given that mobility is a... Read More about The paradox of mobility for older people in the rural-urban fringe.

Bricolage as conceptual tool for understanding access to healthcare in superdiverse populations (2019)
Journal Article
Phillimore, J., Bradby, H., Knecht, M., Padilla, B., & Pemberton, S. (2019). Bricolage as conceptual tool for understanding access to healthcare in superdiverse populations. Social Theory and Health, 231-252. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-018-0075-4

This paper applies, for the first time, the concept of bricolage to understand the experiences of superdiverse urban populations and their practices of improvisation in accessing health services across healthcare ecosystems. By using the concept of h... Read More about Bricolage as conceptual tool for understanding access to healthcare in superdiverse populations.

Rural Regeneration in the UK (2019)
Book
Pemberton. (2019). Rural Regeneration in the UK

A key objective of the book is to highlight how, and to what extent, rural regeneration policy and governance are responsive to an increasingly differentiated and uneven rural economy and society.

Access to healthcare in superdiverse neighbourhoods (2019)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., Padilla, B., Samerski, S., Lopes, J., Humphris, R., Bradby, H., & Phillimore, J. (2019). Access to healthcare in superdiverse neighbourhoods. Health and Place, 128-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.12.003

To date little attention has been focused on how the differing features of 'superdiverse' neighbourhoods shape residents' access to healthcare services. Through utilising a cross-national mixed-methods approach, the paper highlights how defining feat... Read More about Access to healthcare in superdiverse neighbourhoods.

New representations of rural space: Eastern European migrants and the denial of poverty and deprivation in the English countryside (2018)
Journal Article
Pemberton, S., & Mackrell, P. (2018). New representations of rural space: Eastern European migrants and the denial of poverty and deprivation in the English countryside. Journal of Rural Studies, 49-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.01.009

To date, there has been relatively little focus on Eastern European 'accession' (EU8) migrants' representations of the rural in Western Europe. Through drawing on research conducted in England, this paper highlights how the materiality of the English... Read More about New representations of rural space: Eastern European migrants and the denial of poverty and deprivation in the English countryside.