Dr Bob Jeffery

Bob's key interests are in social inequalities, primarily in terms of social class and social mobility. He has conducted research on transport and social exclusion and the policing of ‘high-crime’ neighbourhoods, most recently in relation to the August 2011 English riots. 

Expertise:

• Poverty and social exclusion
• Social class and social mobility
• Transport and mobilities
• Urban regeneration
• Place-based identities
• Survey design and analysis
• Rioting and public disorder

Notable media coverage:

Yorkshire Post [3 April 2013]
Now we are all in a class of our own as 
‘simplistic’ social divisions no longer fit

Sheffield Telegraph [August 2012]
Why did Sheffield avoid 2011 riots?

Bob has also been featured in Big Issue In The North and on Radio Scotland and Radio Sheffield.