Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Fransham, M., Herbertson, M., Pop, M., Morais, M. B., & Lee, N. (2023). Level best? The levelling up agenda and UK regional inequality. Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2159356

Reeves, A., Fransham, M., Stewart, K., & Patrick, R. (2022). Does capping social security harm health? A natural experiment in the UK. Social Policy & Administration, 56(3), 345–359. https://doi.org/10.1111/SPOL.12768 ( The Guardian | New Psychotherapist)

Koch, I., Fransham, M., Cant, S., Ebrey, J., Glucksberg, L., & Savage, M. (2020). Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain, Sociology, 55(1), 3–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520975593 (nominated for 2022 SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence)

Fransham, M. (2020) Neighbourhood gentrification, displacement, and poverty dynamics in post-recession England, Population, Space and Place, 25(5):e2327. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2327

Fransham, M. (2019) Increasing evenness in the neighbourhood distribution of income poverty in England 2005–2014: Age differences and the influence of private rented housing, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 51(2), 403–419. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18792569

Fransham, M. (2019) Income and Population Dynamics in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Measuring the Poverty Turnover Rate Using Administrative Data, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 12(2), 275-300. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12061-017-9242-6

Working papers and editorials

Bauluz, L, Bukowski, P , Fransham, M , Lee, A, López Forero, M, Novokmet, F, Breau, S, Lee, N , Malgouyres, C, Schularick, M & Verdugo, G (2023) Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019. World Inequality Lab – Working Paper No 2023/14. (also with LSE International Inequalities Institute, LSE Centre for Economic Performance, CEPR)

Fransham, M. (2023). Poverty. In D. Demeritt & L. Lees (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Reeves, A., Fransham, M., Stewart, K., & Patrick, R. (2021). Does capping social security harm health? A natural experiment in the UK. Working Paper CASE/221, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics & Political Science. https://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/casepaper221.pdf

Koch, I., Fransham, M., Cant, S., Ebrey, J., Glucksberg, L. and Savage, M. (2019) Social polarisation at the local level: a four-town comparative study. Working Paper (37). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics & Political Science, London, UK. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/102216/

Fransham, M., & Dorling, D. (2018). Homelessness and Public Health. British Medical Journal, 360, k214. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k214

Fransham, M., & Dorling, D. (2017). Have mortality improvements stalled in England? British Medical Journal, 1946, j1946. http://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j1946

Blogs and commentaries

Bauluz, Bukowski, Fransham et al (2023, 10 Oct) New evidence on spatial wage inequality across North America and Western Europe, VoxEU ( https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/new-evidence-spatial-wage-inequality-across-north-america-and-western-europe)

Fransham, M. & Koch, I. (2021, 23 March) Social polarisation at the local level: why inequality must be re-politicised from within different localities, LSE British Politics and Policy ( https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/social-polarisation-at-the-local-level/)

Fransham, M., & Dorling, D. (2017, April 8). Oxford academics: “House prices can keep rising only if the Government backs mass buy-to-let.” The Telegraph. London. ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/investing/buy-to-let/oxford-academics-house-prices-can-keep-rising-government-backs/)