Dr Darren Smith

Reader

Email:D.P.Smith@lboro.ac.uk

Tel : +44 (0)1509 222745
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223930

Room NN.101, Martin Hall , East Park

Career

• March 10 -                 Reader in Geography, Loughborough University

• March 05 – Feb. 10    Reader in Geography, University of Brighton

• Sept. 03 - Feb. 05      Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Brighton

• Sept. 01 - Aug. 03      Lecturer in Geography, University of Brighton

Research

My research focuses on changing population geographies and new societal relations and conflicts.  My pioneering research on studentification has demonstrated the links between a leading-edge of contemporary urban change, the expansion of higher education, and social conflict.  I have also contributed to ongoing debates of rural gentrifica­tion, migration studies, and uneven family geographies.  My research findings have had significant impacts on national and local government policy (e.g. Housing in Multiple Occupation), and has influenced the behaviour of local communities and voluntary organisations, private sector businesses, and higher education establishments.  My research findings have been widely reported in both national and local media print and television.  I am the Chair of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG, and elected member of the Research Committee of the RGS-IBG.

Publications (since 2008)

Smith, D.P. (in press) The social and economic consequences of Housing in Multiple Occupation (HMO) in UK coastal towns: geographies of segregation, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Sage, J., Smith, D.P. and Hubbard, P. (in press) The rapidity of studentification and population change: There goes the (student)hood, Population, Space and Place.

Smith, D.P. and Higley, R. (2012) Circuits of education, rural gentrification, and family migration from the global city, Journal of Rural Studies (DOI: 10.1016/j.rurstud.2011.08.001).

Smith, D.P. and King, R. (2012) Re-making migration theory, Population, Space and Place 18(2) (DOI: 10.1002/psp.686)

Smith, D.P. (2011) What is rural gentrification: exclusionary migration, population change, and revalorised housing ma­rkets?  Planning Theory and Practice.

Smith, D.P. (2011) Geographies of long-distance family migration: moving to a 'spatial turn', Progress in Human Geography 35(5): 652-668.

Smith, D.P., Browne, K. and Bissell, D. (2011) Reinvigorating social geography: a 'social (re)turn' in a changing social world: re/opening a debate, Social and Cultural Geography 12(6): 517-528.

Smith, D.P., Edwards, R., and Caballero, C. (2011) The geographies of mixed-ethnicity families, Environment and Planning A 43(5): 1455-1476.
Smith, D.P. (2009) Student geographies, Environment and Planning A 41(8): 1139-1152.

Smith, D.P. (2009) Urban regeneration, studentification and Purpose-Built Student Accommodation: 'for better for worse, for richer for poorer'? International Journal of Neighbourhood Renewal 1(4): 1-22.

Smith, D.P. (2008) The politics of studentification and '(un)balanced' urban populations: lessons for gentrification and sustainable communities? Urban Studies 45(12): 2541-2564.

Supervision of PhD students

Current students
Alamel, A. (2011-) Sustainable student housing and studentification
Balsden, S. (2011-) Intra-student relations and studentification
Gu, H (2011-) Processes of studentification in China

Kinton, C. (2010-) The destudentification of Loughborough
Paul, D. (2009-) Transylvanian-saxon migrants in Germany
Szewczyk, A. (2010-) Polish graduate migration in the UK
White, C. (2011-) Elite cricket migrants

Completions (since 2008)
Shah, P. (2011) Coastal gentrification: the coastification of St Leonards-on-Sea
Sage, J. (2010) The micro-geographies of studentification in Brighton
Truder, J. (2010) The complexities of family migration: Old Town, Hastings
Rostance, C. (2009) Family migration and new family formations

Higley, R. (2008) 'Other' processes of rural gentrification and counterurban migration