Department of Social Policy and Social Work

University of Oxford

People

David McLennan

David McLennan
Position:
Senior Research Fellow
Telephone (+01865):
(2)70341
Email Address:
david.mclennan@spi.ox.ac.uk

Personal Info

 

David McLennan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. He is Deputy Director of Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy (CASASP) which is based within the Department and he is a Senior Research Associate of Green College. His primary research interest is in the spatial distribution of poverty and deprivation at small area level (i.e. neighbourhood level) within South Africa and the UK. He has extensive experience of working with large national individual-level administrative and Census datasets.

Current major projects include: The Economic Deprivation Index 1999-2009 for the UK Department for Communities and Local Government; The relationship between spatial inequality and attitudes to inequality in South Africa for the UK Economic and Social Research Council; and Crime, Deprivation and Inequality in South Africa funded by Oxford University's John Fell Fund.

Recently completed projects include: The English Indices of Deprivation 2010, 2007 and 2004 for the UK Department for Communities and Local Government; The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2003 for the Scottish Executive; The Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measures 2005 for the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency; The South African Index of Multiple Deprivation 2001 at Datazone level for the South African Department of Social Development; The dynamics and characteristics of deprived areas for the UK Department for Work and Pensions; The national evaluation of the New Deal for Communities Programme for the UK Department for Communities and Local Government; The national evaluation of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal for the UK Department for Communities and Local Government; and The Administrative Data Liaison Service for the UK Economic and Social Research Council.

 

Return to Staff Listing

Publications

  • Barnes, H., Garratt, E., McLennan, D. & Noble, M. (2012) Trading Places:Worklessness Dynamics in Greater Manchester,http://ne.stardotserver.co.uk/downloads/1420-Full-report-pdf  A report for the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities, Manchester: New Economy. http://ne.stardotserver.co.uk/downloads/1420-Full-report-pdfhttp://ne.stardotserver.co.uk/downloads/1420-Full-report-pdf
  • McLennan, D., Barnes, H., Noble, M., Davies, J., Garratt, E. and Dibben C. (2011) The English Indices of Deprivation 2010, London: Communities and Local Government.
  • Barnes, H., Garratt, E., McLennan, D. and Noble, M. (2011) Understanding the worklessness dynamics of deprived areas, DWP Research Report 779, London: Department for Work and Pensions.
  • Whitworth, A., McLennan, D., and Noble, M. (2010) Crimes occurring and prevented in New Deal for Communities areas. London: Communities and Local Government.
  • Wilkinson, K. and McLennan, D.
     (2010) Narrowing the gap? Analysing the impact of the New Deal for Communities Programme on educational attainment. London: Communities and Local Government.
  • Whitworth, A. and McLennan, D. (2010) Geographical displacement or diffusion of benefit around area-based interventions?  Evidence from the New Deal for Communities. People, Place & Policy, 4 (3), 76-88.http://extra.shu.ac.uk/ppp-online/issue_3_081210/documents/geographical_displacement_area_based_interventions_NDC.pdf
  • Wilkinson, K., Whitworth, A. and McLennan, D. (2010) Evaluation of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal: Improving educational attainment in deprived areas. London: Communities and Local Government.
  • Noble, M., McLennan, D., and Whitworth, A. (2009) Tracking Neighbourhoods - The Economic Deprivation Index 2008. London: Communities and Local Government
  • Bradshaw, J., Bloor, K., Huby, M., Rhodes, D., Sinclair, I. & Gibbs, I. Social Policy Research Unit, University York and Noble, M ., McLennan, D. and Wilkinson, K. Social Disadvantage Research Centre, University of Oxford. (2009) Local Index of Child Well-Being - Summary Report. London: Communities and Local Government
  • Noble, M., Barnes, H., Wright, G., McLennan, D., Avenell, D., Whitworth, A., and Roberts, B. (2009) The South African Index of Multiple Deprivation 2001 at Datazone Level. Pretoria: Department of Social Development.
  • Griggs, J., Whitworth, A., Walker, R., McLennan, D. and Noble, M. (2008) Person or place-based policies to tackle disadvantage? Not knowing what works. York: York Publishing Services for Joseph Rowntree Foundation, ISBN: 978 1 85935 630 2.
  • Noble, M., McLennan, D., Wilkinson, K., Whitworth, A., Barnes, H. and Dibben, C. (2008) The English Indices of Deprivation 2007. London: Department for Communities and Local Government.
  • Bradshaw, J., Noble, M., Bloor, K., Huby, M., McLennan, D., Rhodes, D., Sinclair, I., and Wilkinson, K. (2008) A Child Well-Being Index at Small Area Level in England. Child Indicators Research. DOI. 10.1007/s12187-008-9022-6
  • Anttila, C., Griggs, J., Gutierrez-Romero, R., McLennan, D. and Noble, M. (2008) Leaving Benefits Behind Part 2: Wales, Welsh Assembly Government
  • Anttila, C., Griggs, J., Gutierrez-Romero, R., Mason, D., McLennan, D., Noble, M., Shung-King, M., Wilkinson, K. and Whitworth, A. (2007) Leaving Benefits Behind, SDRC Report to Communities and Local Government
  • McLennan, D., Anttila, C., Gutiérrez-Romero, R., Mason, D., Wilkinson, K., Mokhtar, C., Dibben, C., Smith, G., & Noble, M (2006) Neighbourhood Management Programme Baseline Report.  Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, NRU.
  • Wilkinson, K., and McLennan, D. (2006) Assessing the Feasibility of Producing Small Area Population Estimates for the English Indices of Deprivation,  Report to the Department of Communities and Local Government
  • Noble, M. Barnes, H. Smith, G. McLennan, D. Dibben, C. Avenell, D. Smith, Tom, Anttila, C, Sigala, M & Mokhtar, C. (2005) Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measures, 2005.  NISRA, May 2005.
  • Noble, M., Anttila, C., McLennan, D., Covizzi, I., Mason, D., Wilkinson, K. and Gutierrez-Romero, R. (2005) Worklessness in New Deal for Communities Areas: Findings from Phase 1 of the National Evaluation, SDRC Papers on the New Deal for Communities National Evaluation
  • McLennan, D., Anttila, C., Gutierrez-Romero, R., Mason, D., Wilkinson, K., Mokhtar, C., Dibben, C., Smith, G. and Noble, M. (2005) Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme: Full Baseline Report, SDRC Report to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
  • Noble, M., Wright, G., Barnes, H., Noble, S., Ntshongwana, P., Gutierrez-Romero, R., McLennan, D. and Avendell, D. (2005) The Child Support Grant: A Sub-provincial Analysis of Eligibility and Take Up in January 2004, Pretoria: National Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa.
  • Noble, M., Wright, G., Dibben, C., Smith, G., McLennan, D., Anttila, C., Barnes, H., Covizzi, I., Mokhtar, C., Noble, M., Avenell, D., Gardner, J., & Lloyd, M. (2004) The English Indices of Deprivation, 2004.  Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, 2004.
  • McLennan, D., Lloyd, M., Noble, M., Idani, MJ., Dibben, C and Wright, G. (April 2003) (2003) Claiming Matters: Changing patterns of benefit receipt across Wales, 1995 to 2000.  Local Government Data Unit - Wales.

  • This page was last updated on 08/10/2010 at 15:51

Department of Social Policy and Social Work
Barnett House, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2ER, UK
Tel: +44 1865 270325. Fax: +44 1865 270324.