Dr Deborah Phillips
Academic Background
Dr Phillips studied Geography at University College London (BA), the University of British Columbia (MA) and the University of Cambridge (PhD). She has taught geography at the University of Leeds since 1990, where she continues to contribute to the teaching and research programme. She was deputy director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies at the University of Leeds from 1998-2008.
Dr Phillips came to the University of Oxford in 2008 as a Visiting Reader in Geography and became a member of Jesus College in 2009.
Undergraduate Teaching
Urban, social and cultural geography; theoretical approaches in human geography; qualitative research methods.
Research Interests
Dr Phillips' research interests focus on ethnic segregation, racial inequalities in housing, social integration and geographies of citizenship and belonging. She is currently undertaking research on the impact of new migration on community relations at the neighbourhood level in the UK, using participatory research methods.
Recent Publications
Phillips, D. (2010) Minority ethnic segregation, integration and citizenship: a European perspective, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36 (2), pp. 209-225.
Bolt, G., Ozuekren, S. and Phillips, D. (2010) Linking integration and residential segregation: editorial, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36 (2), pp. 169-186.
Harrison, M. and Phillips, D. (2009) Housing and neighbourhoods: a European perspective. In A. Block and J. Solomos (eds.) Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan.
Kudenko, I. and Phillips, D. (2009) The model of integration? Social and spatial transformations in the Leeds Jewish community, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35 (9), pp. 1533-1549.
Phillips, D. (2009) Creating Home-spaces: Young British Muslim Women's Identity and Conceptualisations of Home. In P. Hopkins and R. Gale (eds.) Muslims in Britain: Race, Place and Identities. Edinburgh University Press.
Phillips, D. (2008) The problem with segregation: exploring the racialisation of space in Northern Pennine towns. In C. Dwyer and C. Bressey (eds.) New Geographies of Race and Racism. Hants: Ashgate.
Phillips, D., Simpson, L. and Ahmed, S. (2008) Shifting Geographies of Minority Ethnic Settlement: Remaking Communities in Oldham and Rochdale. In J. Flint and D. Robinson (eds.) Community cohesion in crisis?: New dimensions of diversity and difference, pp. 81-98. Policy Press.
Phillips, D., Davis, C. and Ratcliffe, P. (2007) British Asian narratives of urban space (2007), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS32 (2), pp. 217-234.
Phillips, D. (2007) Ethnic and racial segregation: a critical perspective, Geography Compass, 1 (5), pp. 1138-1159.
Phillips, D. (2006) Parallel lives? Challenging discourses of British Muslim self-segregation, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 24 (1), pp. 25-40.
Stillwell, J. and Phillips, D. (2006) Diversity and change: understanding the ethnic geographies of Leeds, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 32 (7), pp. 1131-1152.
Phillips, D. (2006) Moving towards integration: the housing of asylum seekers and refugees in Britain, Housing Studies 21 (4), pp. 539-553.
Robinson, V., Phillips, D. and Holden, J. (2006) Geography fieldwork in a 'risk society', Area 38 (4), pp. 413-420.
Phillips, D., Law, I. and Turney, L. (2006) Widening participation in United Kingdom universities: the challenges of achieving race equality. In W. Allen, M. Bonous-Hammarth and R. Teranishi (eds.) Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equality and Excellence. Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research Policies and Praxis Vol. 5, pp. 233-253. Oxford, Elsevier Publications.
Phillips, D. (2006) Housing and the integration of new migrants and refugees. In S. Spencer et al., The Integration of New Migrants and Refugees; a Review of the Evidence and What Works. Oxford, COMPAS.
Links
Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College: Geography
See also the School of Geography and the Environment website.
