“Perception of changes in Atlantic Canadian cities” (PI: Howard Ramos; Co-PIs: Lisa Kaida, Martha Radice, Daniel Rainham, and Mark Stoddart)
I’m part of Howard Ramos’ research project that examines how residents in four major cities in Atlantic Canada (St. John’s, NL; Charlottetown, PEI; Halifax, NS; and Moncton, NB) perceive changes in their neighbourhood. My Research Assistants (Diana Singh and Rochelle Wijesingha) and I are mainly responsible for measuring the social, demographic, and physical changes in neighbourhoods using Statistics Canada’s Census data.
We have disseminated results from this project as follows:
Publications:
Ramos, H., L. Kaida, D. Singh, P. Pritchard, and R. Wijesingha. (2021) “The Power of a Simple Index of Neighbourhood Change: Challenging the Perception that there is no such Thing as Simplicity in Creating Indexes” The Canadian Geographer https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12711.
Kaida, L., H. Ramos, D. Singh, and R. McLay. (2020) “How to Capture Neighborhood Change in Small Cities” Canadian Studies in Population 47(3): 195-205.
Kaida, L., H. Ramos, D. Singh, P. Pritchard, and R. Wijesingha. (2020) “Rust Belt or Three Cities? Socio-Spatial Analysis of Changing Atlantic Canadian Cities” City & Community 19(1): 191-216.
Presentation:
Kaida, L., H. Ramos, D. Singh, and R. Wijesingha 2018. “Patterns of Change in Smaller Cities: Indexing Change in Four Atlantic Canadian Cities.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, MD, February 22-25, 2018.
This project was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant (2015-2020).
For more info, visit Howard Ramos’ project website.