Dr Helen Jarvis
Senior Lecturer in Social Geography
- Email: helen.jarvis@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 6959
- Fax: 0191 222 5421
- Website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/geps/research/geography/UK-US/index.htm
- Address: Room: 5.20
Geography
Daysh Building
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Helen Jarvis is Senior Lecturer in Social Geography at Newcastle University, England. Helen specialises in urban social geography with a special focus on the restructuring of work and employment, housing and urban structure and gender relations. Connections between these overlapping spheres are made through close attention to household decision making and space-time co-ordination. Helen has published books on Cities, Gender, Work/Life Balance and Social Reproduction. She is currently researching everyday life in co-housing intentional communities, comparing practices of collective housekeeping and alternative living space in Britain and the USA. She is PI for the ESRC seminar series 'Time-Space and Life-Course'.
Research Interests
Household structure and everyday co-ordination; work and employment; housing biographies; work-life balance; time-space; urban lived experience; gender roles and divisions; social-environmental sustainability; mixed methods research.
Helen Jarvis specialises in urban social geography with a
special focus on the restructuring of work and employment, housing and urban structure, and gender relations. Connections between these overlapping spheres are made through close attention to household decision making and space-time co-ordination. Issues of social policy are also addressed in these spheres. Helen employs qualitative, feminist, urban research techniques, generally combining detailed household biographies and time-use diaries with secondary data analysis in a mixed method approach. Household research is conducted primarily in post-industrial UK and US cities, comparing these with continental European contexts to evaluate prospects for work-life balance and urban environmental quality.
Current Work
Helen is principal investigator on the ESRC seminar series 'Time-Space and Life-Course'. She has a Faculty small grant to conduct a pilot study of co-housing and intentional community initiatives in the USA and UK. She is exploring alternative living spaces and work/life perspective from an integrated perspective, focusing on the work of social reproduction.
Selected Publications
- Jarvis H; Cloke J; Kantor P. Cities and Gender. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.
- Jarvis H. Work/Life City Limits : Comparative Household Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Jarvis H; Pratt AC; Cheng-Chong Wu. The secret life of cities: the social reproduction of everyday life. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2001.
- Jarvis H. Moving to London time: Household co-ordination and the infrastructure of everyday life. Time and Society 2005, 14(1), 133-154.
- Jarvis H; Pratt A. Bringing it all back home: The extensification and 'overflowing' of work. The case of San Francisco's new media households. Geoforum 2006, 37(3), 331-339.
- Jarvis H. 'Doing deals on the house' in a 'post-welfare' society: Evidence of micro-market practices from Britain and the USA. Housing Studies 2008, 23(2), 213-231.
Projects
- Association of American Geographers and Annual Meeting 2006
Project Leaders: Dr Helen Jarvis - Negotiating Flexibility for Working Family: Lessons from International Comparison
Project Leaders: Dr Helen Jarvis - Time-Space and Life
Project Leaders: Dr Helen Jarvis - Understanding School Choice as a Function of Inequality: Combining Biography with GIScience
Project Leaders: Dr Helen Jarvis
Research Roles
Helen has leadership responsibilities within the interdisciplinary household research network: HoRNet.
Postgraduate Supervision
I am happy to supervise postgraduate research on any aspect of:
Cities and gender; household resource capabilities and coping strategies; social networks/ social geographies; home and housing; work, employment and gender relations; informal care-giving; school choice and school run; everdyay co-ordination.
Completed PhD supervision:
Rituparna Sarma (2008) Indian women's changing status and role: lessons from the daily lives of university students in Assam, India.
Current PhD supervision:
Valerie Egdell (begain 2006) fully funded ESRC-MRC studentship
Unequal Respite: Mapping the Sites, Stages and Support Networks of Informal Care. (Co-supervised with Prof John Bond, Prof Ian McKeith, Dr Katie Brittain - Institute of Health and Society.)
Angela Abbot (began 2007) full ESRC studentship
Exploring the Implications of Self-directed Support to the Social, Spatial and Affective Relations of Elderly Care. (Co-supervised with Dr Alison Stenning, CURDS)
Ann Murphy (began 2007) full ESRC studentship
Army Wives and Military Landscapes (provisional title). (Co-supervised with Dr Rachel Woodward, Geography.)
Wendy Histon (began 2008) Politics studentship
(title tbc) (Principally supervised by Prof. William Maloney, Politics.)
Esteem Indicators
Helen participated in an International Think-Tank on Housing Wealth (Rowntree Foundation/ ESRC) in 2007. She was invited by the Anglo-German Centrum fur Internationale Studien (CiS) Hamburg to contribute as a consultant to a workshop on 'the temporalisation of space' in December 2004. Helen is Book Reviews Editor (Human) for all of the RGS-IBG Journals (Area, Geograpgical Journal, TIBG, and a new electronic archive).
Funding
Newcastle University HASS Faculty Small Grant, 2008-2009: (£1,600) Alternative home-life reconciliation: the case of co-housing and intentional communities in Oregon, USA.
ESRC Seminar Series, 2007-2009: £15,000 (in collaboration with Durham and Lancaster Universities).
British Academy, 2005 - 2007: £7,000 (with Dr. Alvanides).
ESRC Fellowship, 1999 - 2002: £91,394 awarded for three years to undertake comparative UK-US research: "Negotiating Flexibility for Working Families: Lessons from International Comparison".
HSBC Holdings RGS-IBG Small, Grant 1999: Award of £1,500 for travel to support a 'pump-priming' 'pilot' international study of dual earner household lifestyles.
University of Newcastle Small Grant, 2000: Award of £1,500 for data collection costs to conduct a pilot study in preparation for a larger grant submission (with Professor Jane Wheelock),
"understanding 'flexible working' from a household perspective". An unsuccessful ESRC submission was made in July 2001.
ESRC, 2000: Bursary of £800 to cover full fees and travel expenses for a two-week residential course on the British Household Panel Survey at the University of Essex.
British Academy 2005-2007 (with Seraphim Alvanides): Small Grant of £7480: Understanding School Choice as a Function of Inequality: Combining Biography with Spatial Analysis.
Background
2006 - present: Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University
1998 - 2006: Lecturer, Newcastle University.
1997 - 1998: Postdoc, Cambridge University
Roles and Responsibilities
Degree Programme Director, 2008 - Present
Admissions Tutor BA/BSc Hons Geography, 2003 - 2007/8
Member of the University Disciplinary Panel
Book Reviews Editor, RGS-IBG/ Wiley Blackwell journals; Area and The Geographical Journal since 2005
Qualifications
PhD London School of Economics, 1997.
BSc (Econ) London School of Economics, 1994, First Class Honours.
Previous Positions
1997 - 1998: Postdoc, University of Cambridge (DETR funded project).
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
Committee member (previously treasurer 1998-2001)RGS-IBG Women and Geography Study Group.
Honours and Awards
George and Hilda Ormsby Award for Academic Achievement, London School of Economics, 1994.
Undergraduate Teaching
Degree Programme Directr (F800/ L701)
GEO2104 Module leader and lecturer on Social Geographies(20cr)
GEO3101 Module leader, Cities and Gender (10cr)
Postgraduate Teaching
Concepts in Action (MA Geography Research)
PhD supervisor (currently four students)