Michael Bradford
Emeritus Professor
BA, PhD (Cantab)
Room Number: 2.026 [Arthur Lewis Building]
Tel: +44(0)161 275 3650
Fax: +44(0)161 275 7878
Email: michael.bradford@manchester.ac.uk
President of the Geographical Association (1999-2000).
Joint Leader of Change Academy for the Higher Education Academy and the Leadership Foundation (2005-).
Senior Associate of the Higher Education Academy (2006-7) academic leadership and change academy (seconded for one day a week).
Recent publications:
2000 (with J. McKendrick and A. Fielder) ‘Enabling play or sustaining exclusion? Commercial playgrounds and disabled children’. North West Geographer 3, pp 32-48.
2000 (with J McKendrick and A Fielder) ‘Kid Customer! Commercialisation of playspace and the commodification of childhood’. Childhood 7, pp 295-314.
2000 (with I. Deas and B. T. Robson) ‘Rethinking the Urban Development Corporation 'Experiment': the case of Central Manchester, Leeds and Bristol’. Progress in Planning. 54 pp 1-72.
2000 ‘Geography: Pride of Place’. Presidential address. Geography. 85, pp 311-21.
2002 ‘The sexual abuse of children by strangers: its extent, nature and victims' characteristics’. Children and Society 16, pp 346-59 (with B Gallagher and K Pease)
2003 (with I. Deas, B. Robson and C. Wong). ‘Measuring neighbourhood deprivation: a critique of the Index of Multiple Deprivation’. Environment and Planning C 21, 883-903
2003 ‘Regenerating the City and the Discipline’. Geography 88, 15-22
(in press) (with B. Gallagher and K. Pease) ‘Sexual abuse and abduction of children by strangers: perpetrators' characteristics, incidence circumstances and victim response’. Child Abuse and Neglect).
(in press) ‘Growing up within a community in conflict’. Childrens Geographies.
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