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David Mccollum

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ID391648
NAMEDavid Mccollum
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEMccollum
SIGNATUREMCCOLLUM D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of St Andrews
ORCID0000-0001-8716-6852
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS655
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX14
  • Regional energy security: Case study of path dependence and adoption readiness in the Southeastern United States

    Open Access•Marie-Annette Brown, Marilyn Brown et al.•ARTICLE•Applied Geography•2026

    Regions of the United States (U.S.) are challenged by an array of energy security risks. Complementary constructs of path dependence and adoption readiness, combined with rich data analytics are deployed to investigate four energy conundrums emerging from a participatory planning initiative in the U.S. Southeast (SE). The theory of path dependence explains (1) how low electricity rates and high reserve margins have made the SE an attractive targe…

  • Youth Transitions in an Era of Permacrisis: The Case of Europeans in Post‐Brexit Britain

    Open Access•David Mccollum, Kate Botterill et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2026

    The protracted Brexit process had negative practical and emotional consequences for the millions of Europeans who reside in Britain. The analysis presented in this paper elucidates the circumstances, experiences and perspectives specifically of young Europeans, achieved through interrogation of data from the 2021 Census of England and Wales and a 2023–24 novel, longitudinal survey of 1490 young Europeans. The findings reveal considerable heteroge…

  • Collaborative energy and land use planning

    Open Access•David Mccollum, David L McCollum•ARTICLE•Nature Sustainability•2025

  • Post‐pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities

    Open Access•David Mccollum•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2025•Cited by: 3•References: 35

    Rather than being an indiscriminate ‘greater leveller’, it is widely recognised that the burden of the covid‐19 pandemic and its aftermath has largely mirrored longstanding cleavages of social and spatial disadvantage. This paper considers how the nature and effects of the mass covid‐induced shift to remote and hybrid working can inform theorisations of contemporary regional inequalities. Through a loosening of the relationship between the geogra…

  • Possibilities of population thinking: Histories and futures of Population Geography through reflections on 50 years of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Population…

    Open Access•Nissa Finney, Kate Botterill et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2024•References: 23

    Reflecting critically on 50 years of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) (RGS‐IBG) Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG), and drawing on interviews with leading population geographers of the British Isles, this paper identifies defining features of Population Geography that attest to its longevity: personal connections and material production; fluidity and adaptability over time and through interdisciplin…

  • Covid geographies of home and work: Privileged (im)mobilities

    Open Access•David Mccollum•ARTICLE•People Place and Policy Online•2023

    For hundreds of millions of people globally, the covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally re-ordered the relationship between where one resides and where one’s paid work is done. Much ink has justifiably been spilled on the nature, drivers and consequences of these novel geographies of home and work. This analysis, drawing on the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), seeks to generate novel insights into the socially and spatially uneven experience…

  • Internationalisation, sustainability and the contested environmental impacts of international student mobility

    Open Access•David Mccollum, Hebe Nicholson•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023

    Purpose This paper aims to stimulate the nascent research agenda on the environmental sustainability of the ongoing mushrooming of international student mobility (ISM). The higher education (HE) system in the UK and elsewhere is increasingly predicated upon the hosting of international students. Whilst this drive towards internationalisation undoubtably has multiple benefits, little attention thus far has been paid to its potentially very conside…

  • Deep decarbonization impacts on electric load shapes and peak demand

    Open Access•John Bistline, Christopher Roney et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Research Letters•2021

    The existing literature has shown the important role of electrification in deep decarbonization pathways, increasing electricity demand as end uses decarbonize. However, studies have not focused on the effects of electrification on aggregate load shapes and peak demand, which influence power sector investments, operations, and costs. Here we investigate potential impacts of deep decarbonization on regional load shapes and peak electricity demand …

  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Transparency and integrated assessment modeling

    Open Access•Jim Skea, P R Shukla et al.•ARTICLE•Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    Integrated assessment models (IAMs) connect trends in future socioeconomic and technological development with impacts on the environment, such as global climate change. They occupy a critical position at the global science‐policy interface. IAMs and associated scenarios have come under intense scrutiny, with critiques addressing both methodological and substantive issues, such as land use, carbon dioxide removal and technology performance. Critic…

  • Migrant subjectivities and temporal flexibility of East‐Central European labour migration to the United Kingdom

    Open Access•Sergei Shubin, David Mccollum•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    This paper seeks to broaden existing understandings of migrant worker flexibility drawing on the data from the two ethnographic studies of low‐wage employers and Eastern European migrants in Scotland. It focuses on the temporal aspects of flexibility production in employment discourse and temporal expectations about flexible migrant workers. Our findings reveal double movement of interruption and remaking of temporal flexibility, which challenges…

  • Protracted precarities: The residential mobilities of Poles in Scotland

    Open Access•David Mccollum, Paulina Trevena•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 10

    The significant inflow of migrants to the United Kingdom following the Eastern EU Enlargement of 2004 is noteworthy due to its scale, intensity and geographic diversity. Recent statistical data suggest that these migrants exhibit spatial mobilities that reflect their disadvantage not just from the White British but also from other minority groups. Drawing on 83 interviews with Polish migrants living in Scotland, this paper illustrates the often‐p…

  • Reflections on a Golden Jubilee: Celebrating 50 years of Population Geography within the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s journals

    Open Access•Boyana Buyuklieva, Sophie Cranston et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 51

    This commentary celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Population Geography Research Group (PGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS‐IBG) by drawing on journal papers within Area , The Geographical Journal and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers presented in the virtual issue by the same name ( https://rgs‐ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)9999‐0017.50yrs‐pop‐geography…

  • Implications of various effort-sharing approaches for national carbon budgets and emission pathways

    Open Access•Nicole J van den Berg, Heleen Van Soest et al.•ARTICLE•Climatic Change•2020

    The bottom-up approach of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the Paris Agreement has led countries to self-determine their greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets. The planned ‘ratcheting-up’ process, which aims to ensure that the NDCs comply with the overall goal of limiting global average temperature increase to well below 2 °C or even 1.5 °C, will most likely include some evaluation of ‘fairness’ of these reduction targe…

  • Mobile no more? The innovative use of administrative data linked to a census‐based longitudinal study to investigate migration within Scotland

    Open Access•David Mccollum, Annemarie Ernsten‐Birns et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 12

    This paper builds upon existing scholarship on changing patterns and processes of internal migration, especially the surprising recently documented trend towards falling internal migration intensities since the late 20th century in many developed countries. The analysis is based on new research opportunities presented by the recent linking of administrative health data into the census‐based Scottish Longitudinal Study and points to a modest recen…

  • Scotland and Brexit: Identity, belonging and citizenship in uncertain times

    Open Access•David Mccollum•ARTICLE•Scottish Affairs•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 3

    This article offers some reflections on the lessons readers might take from the papers in this special issue. These are framed through consideration of three key themes: Scottishness, nationhood and national identity; the search for belonging, not least in relation to migrants’ emotional responses to Brexit; and the practical questions that Brexit poses for citizenship(s) and ‘settled’ status. In considering these themes, attention is drawn towar…

  • A comparison of low carbon investment needs between China and Europe in stringent climate policy scenarios

    Open Access•Wenji Zhou, David Mccollum et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Research Letters•2019

    The radical change in recent global climate governance calls for China and Europe to ramp up their efforts in leading the world to reach the long-term climate goals. By analyzing the results from the state-of-the-art global integrated assessment model, MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM, this paper aims to understand the future levels of financial investment needed for building and maintaining energy-related infrastructure in the two regions for fulfilling string…

  • Balancing clean water-climate change mitigation trade-offs

    Open Access•Simon Parkinson, Volker Krey et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Research Letters•2018

    Energy systems support technical solutions fulfilling the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal for clean water and sanitation (SDG6), with implications for future energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions. The energy sector is also a large consumer of water, making water efficiency targets ingrained in SDG6 important constraints for long-term energy planning. Here, we apply a global integrated assessment model to quantify the cost and c…

  • Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages

    Open Access•David Mccollum, David L McCollum et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Research Letters•2018

    The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide guide-posts to society as it attempts to respond to an array of pressing challenges. One of these challenges is energy; thus, the SDGs have become paramount for energy policy-making. Yet, while governments throughout the world have already declared the SDGs to be 'integrated and indivisible', there are still knowledge gaps surrounding how the interactions between the energy SDG targ…

  • Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals: Lessons learned and ways forward

    Open Access•Måns Nilsson, Elinor Chisholm et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainability Science•2018•Cited by: 50•References: 7

    Pursuing integrated research and decision-making to advance action on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) fundamentally depends on understanding interactions between the SDGs, both negative ones ("trade-offs") and positive ones ("co-benefits"). This quest, triggered by the 2030 Agenda, has however pointed to a gap in current research and policy analysis regarding how to think systematically about interactions across the SDGs. This paper synt…

  • Negotiating Brexit: Migrant spatialities and identities in a changing Europe

    Open Access•Kate Botterill, David Mccollum et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2018•Cited by: 19•References: 13

    Peer reviewed

  • Linking residential relocation desires and behaviour with life domain satisfaction

    Open Access•Beata Nowok, A Findlay et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 45

    Life satisfaction and motives for moving home are complex entanglements, reflecting multiple desires and experiences. The aim of this paper is to show that a focused analysis of satisfaction with particular life domains can prove that changing a place of residence is not only a life stressor, but also a positive means leading to enduring improvements in individual satisfaction. Using the British Household Panel Survey we examine overall life sati…

  • Determinants of occupational mobility: The importance of place of work

    David Mccollum, Ye Liu et al.•ARTICLE•Regional Studies•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 13

    This research focuses on individual and place-based determinants of occupational mobility in Scotland over the period 2001–11. Its originality relates to the importance of workplace location, rather than residential locations, on occupational mobility, and in questioning the idea that spatial mobility accelerates occupational mobility. The findings also indicate that skill level and employment in ‘knowledge-intensive’ sectors are key determinants…

  • Using linked administrative and census data for migration research

    Annemarie Ernsten, David Mccollum et al.•ARTICLE•Population Studies•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 22

    Migration is a core component of population change and is both a symptom and a cause of major economic and social phenomena. However, data limitations mean that gaps remain in our understanding of the patterns and processes of mobility. This is particularly the case for internal migration, which remains under-researched, despite being quantitatively much more significant than international migration. Using the Scottish Longitudinal Study, this pa…

  • Oiling the wheels? Flexible labour markets and the migration industry

    David Mccollum, Allan Findlay•ARTICLE•New Community•2018•Cited by: 53•References: 39

    This research was conducted by researchers in the Centre for Population Centre, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [grant number RES-625-28-0001

  • Fees, flows and imaginaries: Exploring the destination choices arising from intra-national student mobility

    A Findlay, Helen Packwood et al.•ARTICLE•Globalisation Societies and…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    Are intra-national student flows driven by the same forces as international student mobility? This paper addresses this question by analysing cross-border student mobility in the UK. The paper identifies four principles that one might expect to drive the destination choices of students from Scotland enrolling in English universities. Following a statistical analysis of student destination choices, it is argued that cross-border moves from Scotlan…

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  • The role of recruitment agencies in imagining and producing the 'good' migrant

    A Findlay, David Mccollum et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2013•Cited by: 80•References: 38

    This paper focuses on representations of labour migrants and interrogates how such imaginaries shape migrant recruitment and employment regimes. The recruitment and employment of labour migrants inevitably involves a range of knowledge practices that affect who is recruited, from where and for what purposes. In particular, this paper seeks to advance understandings of how images of 'bodily goodness' are represented graphically and how perceptions…

  • New Mobilities Across the Life Course: A Framework for Analysing Demographically Linked Drivers of Migration

    Open Access•A Findlay, David Mccollum et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2015•Cited by: 69•References: 40

    Taking the life course as the central concern, the authors set out a conceptual framework and define some key research questions for a programme of research that explores how the linked lives of mobile people are situated in time–space within the economic, social, and cultural structures of contemporary society. Drawing on methodologically innovative techniques, these perspectives can offer new insights into the changing nature and meanings of mi…

  • Flexible' workers for 'flexible' jobs? The labour market function of A8 migrant labour in the UK

    Open Access•David Mccollum, A Findlay•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2015•Cited by: 60•References: 23

    There is considerable academic and policy interest in how immigrants fare in the labour market of their host economy. This research is situated within these debates and explores the nexus between migrant labour and segmented labour markets. Specifically the analysis focuses on East-Central Europeans in Britain: a sizeable cohort of largely economic and recent migrants. A large quantity of interviews with low-wage employers and recruiters is used …

  • The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century

    Open Access•Oliver Fricko, Peter Havlík et al.•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Change•2016•Cited by: 58•References: 10

    Studies of global environmental change make extensive use of scenarios to explore how the future can evolve under a consistent set of assumptions. The recently developed Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) create a framework for the study of climate-related scenario outcomes. Their five narratives span a wide range of worlds that vary in their challenges for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Here we provide background on the quantificati…

  • Oiling the wheels? Flexible labour markets and the migration industry

    David Mccollum, Allan Findlay•ARTICLE•New Community•2018•Cited by: 53•References: 39

    This research was conducted by researchers in the Centre for Population Centre, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [grant number RES-625-28-0001

  • Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals: Lessons learned and ways forward

    Open Access•Måns Nilsson, Elinor Chisholm et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainability Science•2018•Cited by: 50•References: 7

    Pursuing integrated research and decision-making to advance action on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) fundamentally depends on understanding interactions between the SDGs, both negative ones ("trade-offs") and positive ones ("co-benefits"). This quest, triggered by the 2030 Agenda, has however pointed to a gap in current research and policy analysis regarding how to think systematically about interactions across the SDGs. This paper synt…

  • Recruitment and employment regimes: Migrant labour channels in the UK's rural agribusiness sector, from accession to recession

    Open Access•A Findlay, David Mccollum•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2012•Cited by: 40•References: 4

  • Distinctive and comparative places: Alternative narratives of distinction within international student mobility

    Open Access•Laura Prazeres, A Findlay et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2017•Cited by: 30•References: 9

  • Marketization, marketing and the production of international student migration

    Open Access•A Findlay, Allan M Findlay et al.•ARTICLE•International Migration•2017•Cited by: 23•References: 4

    Peer reviewed

  • In what sense ‘distinctive’? The search for distinction amongst cross-border student migrants in the UK

    Open Access•Scott Tindal, Helen Packwood et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2015•Cited by: 23•References: 6

  • Negotiating Brexit: Migrant spatialities and identities in a changing Europe

    Open Access•Kate Botterill, David Mccollum et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2018•Cited by: 19•References: 13

    Peer reviewed

  • It was always the plan’: International study as ‘learning to migrate’

    Open Access•A Findlay, Laura Prazeres et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2017•Cited by: 19•References: 21

    International student mobility has mainly been theorised in terms of cultural capital accumulation and its prospective benefits on returning home following graduation. Yet, despite a growing body of work in this area, most research on post‐study mobility fails to recognise that the social forces that generate international student mobility also contribute to lifetime mobility plans. Moreover, these forces produce at least four types of post‐study…

  • Public Attitudes towards Migration in Scotland: Exceptionality and Possible Policy Implications

    Open Access•David Mccollum, Beata Nowok et al.•ARTICLE•Scottish Affairs•2014•Cited by: 17•References: 2

    Scotland is often perceived as having a relatively welcoming view towards migrants and is presented as such by its politicians and policymakers. This positioning sits within a broader political context in which the Scottish Government favours immigration but has limited policy levers with which to directly influence it. This paper seeks to scrutinise the supposition that Scotland can be seen as ‘different’ to the rest of the UK in terms of how im…

  • Rethinking Labour Migration Channels: The Experience of Latvia from EU Accession to Economic Recession

    Open Access•David Mccollum, Sergei Shubin et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2013•Cited by: 14•References: 13

    With the onset of recession in the UK in 2008, it was assumed that immigration from other European Union countries would decline. However, this has been shown to not be the case, with the volume of new arrivals from most of the East‐Central European ‘Accession 8’ countries actually increasing. The focus of this paper is Latvia, a country that had a relatively buoyant economy following its accession to the European Union in 2004 but that now has o…

  • Overcoming the crisis: The changing profile and trajectories of Latvian migrants

    David Mccollum, Elina Apsite-Berina et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2017•Cited by: 13•References: 35

    The work was funded by the National Research Programme [grant number 5.2.4] and the Latvian Council of Sciences [grant number 514/2012

  • Comparing future patterns of energy system change in 2 °C scenarios with historically observed rates of change

    Open Access•Mariësse A E van Sluisveld, Jorrit Harmsen et al.•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Change•2015•Cited by: 11

  • Linking residential relocation desires and behaviour with life domain satisfaction

    Open Access•Beata Nowok, A Findlay et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 45

    Life satisfaction and motives for moving home are complex entanglements, reflecting multiple desires and experiences. The aim of this paper is to show that a focused analysis of satisfaction with particular life domains can prove that changing a place of residence is not only a life stressor, but also a positive means leading to enduring improvements in individual satisfaction. Using the British Household Panel Survey we examine overall life sati…

  • Getting off the Escalator? A Study of Scots Out-Migration from a Global City Region

    Open Access•A Findlay, Colin Mason et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 26

    Something new is happening to reverse the historical trend of skilled Scots moving to London for career progression. The Scottish population of London and the South East is falling and this despite Scots enjoying continued occupational success within the South East labour market. The authors ask why Scots are leaving the UK's main escalator region and then investigate how these migration changes can best be theorised relative to literature on the…

  • Modelling social influence and cultural variation in global low-carbon vehicle transitions

    Open Access•Hazel Pettifor, Charlie Wilson et al.•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Change•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 5

  • Escalators, Elevators and Travelators: The Occupational Mobility of Migrants to South-East England

    A Findlay, Colin Mason et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2009•Cited by: 8•References: 21

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  • Scotland and Brexit: Identity, belonging and citizenship in uncertain times

    Open Access•David Mccollum•ARTICLE•Scottish Affairs•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 3

    This article offers some reflections on the lessons readers might take from the papers in this special issue. These are framed through consideration of three key themes: Scottishness, nationhood and national identity; the search for belonging, not least in relation to migrants’ emotional responses to Brexit; and the practical questions that Brexit poses for citizenship(s) and ‘settled’ status. In considering these themes, attention is drawn towar…

  • Precarious Transitions and Labour Market Disadvantage: Using Longitudinal Data to Explain the Nature of Work–Welfare Cycling

    David Mccollum•ARTICLE•Regional Studies•2011•Cited by: 6•References: 1

    McCollum D. Precarious transitions and labour market disadvantage: using longitudinal data to explain the nature of work–welfare cycling, Regional Studies. Transitions from welfare into work are often regarded as a remedy to labour market exclusion. However, these transitions often do not lead to sustained employment, with many people persistently cycling between work and welfare. This paper uses longitudinal datasets to investigate the nature of…

  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Transparency and integrated assessment modeling

    Open Access•Jim Skea, P R Shukla et al.•ARTICLE•Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    Integrated assessment models (IAMs) connect trends in future socioeconomic and technological development with impacts on the environment, such as global climate change. They occupy a critical position at the global science‐policy interface. IAMs and associated scenarios have come under intense scrutiny, with critiques addressing both methodological and substantive issues, such as land use, carbon dioxide removal and technology performance. Critic…

  • Determinants of occupational mobility: The importance of place of work

    David Mccollum, Ye Liu et al.•ARTICLE•Regional Studies•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 13

    This research focuses on individual and place-based determinants of occupational mobility in Scotland over the period 2001–11. Its originality relates to the importance of workplace location, rather than residential locations, on occupational mobility, and in questioning the idea that spatial mobility accelerates occupational mobility. The findings also indicate that skill level and employment in ‘knowledge-intensive’ sectors are key determinants…

  • Using linked administrative and census data for migration research

    Annemarie Ernsten, David Mccollum et al.•ARTICLE•Population Studies•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 22

    Migration is a core component of population change and is both a symptom and a cause of major economic and social phenomena. However, data limitations mean that gaps remain in our understanding of the patterns and processes of mobility. This is particularly the case for internal migration, which remains under-researched, despite being quantitatively much more significant than international migration. Using the Scottish Longitudinal Study, this pa…

  • Getting off the Escalator? A Study of Scots Out-Migration from a Global City Region

    Open Access•A Findlay, Colin Mason et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 26

    Something new is happening to reverse the historical trend of skilled Scots moving to London for career progression. The Scottish population of London and the South East is falling and this despite Scots enjoying continued occupational success within the South East labour market. The authors ask why Scots are leaving the UK's main escalator region and then investigate how these migration changes can best be theorised relative to literature on the…

  • Escalators, Elevators and Travelators: The Occupational Mobility of Migrants to South-East England

    A Findlay, Colin Mason et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2009•Cited by: 8•References: 21

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  • Precarious Transitions and Labour Market Disadvantage: Using Longitudinal Data to Explain the Nature of Work–Welfare Cycling

    David Mccollum•ARTICLE•Regional Studies•2011•Cited by: 6•References: 1

    McCollum D. Precarious transitions and labour market disadvantage: using longitudinal data to explain the nature of work–welfare cycling, Regional Studies. Transitions from welfare into work are often regarded as a remedy to labour market exclusion. However, these transitions often do not lead to sustained employment, with many people persistently cycling between work and welfare. This paper uses longitudinal datasets to investigate the nature of…

  • Back on the brew [benefits] again’ why so many transitions from welfare into work are not sustained

    David Mccollum•ARTICLE•Journal of Poverty and Social…•2012•Cited by: 1

    Employment policies have conventionally focused on the transition from welfare to work. However, many of those who leave out-of-work benefits for employment return to them again relatively quickly, meaning that some people cycle between work and welfare for much of their working lives. This article draws on 130 semi-structured interviews with work-welfare ‘cyclers’, service providers and employers in Glasgow and Dundee, Scotland, to investigate t…

  • Recruitment and employment regimes: Migrant labour channels in the UK's rural agribusiness sector, from accession to recession

    Open Access•A Findlay, David Mccollum•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2012•Cited by: 40•References: 4

  • Towards (un)sustainable employment? Exploring policy responses to work-welfare cycling

    David Mccollum•ARTICLE•Policy Studies•2012•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    Employment policies have conventionally focused on the transition from welfare to work. However, many of those who leave out of work benefits for employment return to them again relatively quickly, meaning that some people perpetually cycle between work and welfare for much of their working lives. This article considers policy responses to labour market disadvantage in the UK and the extent to which they can help and hinder individuals’ efforts t…

  • CO2 emission mitigation and fossil fuel markets: Dynamic and international aspects of climate policies

    Open Access•Nico Bauer, Valentina Bosetti et al.•ARTICLE•Technological Forecasting and…•2013

    This paper explores a multi-model scenario ensemble to assess the impacts of idealized and non-idealized climate change stabilization policies on fossil fuel markets. Under idealized conditions climate policies significantly reduce coal use in the short- and long-term. Reductions in oil and gas use are much smaller, particularly until 2030, but revenues decrease much more because oil and gas prices are higher than coal prices. A first deviation f…

  • Locked into Copenhagen pledges — Implications of short-term emission targets for the cost and feasibility of long-term climate goals

    Open Access•Keywan Riahi, Elmar Kriegler et al.•ARTICLE•Technological Forecasting and…•2013

    This paper provides an overview of the AMPERE modeling comparison project with focus on the implications of near-term policies for the costs and attainability of long-term climate objectives. Nine modeling teams participated in the project to explore the consequences of global emissions following the proposed policy stringency of the national pledges from the Copenhagen Accord and Cancún Agreements to 2030. Specific features compared to earlier a…

  • Rethinking Labour Migration Channels: The Experience of Latvia from EU Accession to Economic Recession

    Open Access•David Mccollum, Sergei Shubin et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2013•Cited by: 14•References: 13

    With the onset of recession in the UK in 2008, it was assumed that immigration from other European Union countries would decline. However, this has been shown to not be the case, with the volume of new arrivals from most of the East‐Central European ‘Accession 8’ countries actually increasing. The focus of this paper is Latvia, a country that had a relatively buoyant economy following its accession to the European Union in 2004 but that now has o…

  • Forecasting environmental migration to the United Kingdom: An exploration using Bayesian models

    Open Access•Guy Abel, Jakub Bijak et al.•ARTICLE•Population and Environment•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 26

  • Migration and Social Cohesion in the UK

    David Mccollum•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2013•Cited by: 1

    The issue of immigration is the focus of perennial public and political discussion and debate in Britain. Of particular salience is the perception that immigration has had a negative impact on soci

  • The role of recruitment agencies in imagining and producing the 'good' migrant

    A Findlay, David Mccollum et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2013•Cited by: 80•References: 38

    This paper focuses on representations of labour migrants and interrogates how such imaginaries shape migrant recruitment and employment regimes. The recruitment and employment of labour migrants inevitably involves a range of knowledge practices that affect who is recruited, from where and for what purposes. In particular, this paper seeks to advance understandings of how images of 'bodily goodness' are represented graphically and how perceptions…

  • Public Attitudes towards Migration in Scotland: Exceptionality and Possible Policy Implications

    Open Access•David Mccollum, Beata Nowok et al.•ARTICLE•Scottish Affairs•2014•Cited by: 17•References: 2

    Scotland is often perceived as having a relatively welcoming view towards migrants and is presented as such by its politicians and policymakers. This positioning sits within a broader political context in which the Scottish Government favours immigration but has limited policy levers with which to directly influence it. This paper seeks to scrutinise the supposition that Scotland can be seen as ‘different’ to the rest of the UK in terms of how im…

  • Transport: A roadblock to climate change mitigation?

    Open Access•Felix Creutzig, Patrick Jochem et al.•ARTICLE•Science•2015

    Urban mobility solutions foster climate mitigation

  • A short note on integrated assessment modeling approaches: Rejoinder to the review of “Making or breaking climate targets — The Ampere study on staged accession scenarios for climate policy”

    Open Access•Elmar Kriegler, Keywan Riahi et al.•ARTICLE•Technological Forecasting and…•2015

  • Mitigation choices impact carbon budget size compatible with low temperature goals

    Open Access•Joeri Rogelj, Andy Reisinger et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Research Letters•2015

    Global-mean temperature increase is roughly proportional to cumulative emissions of carbon-dioxide (CO2). Limiting global warming to any level thus implies a finite CO2 budget. Due to geophysical uncertainties, the size of such budgets can only be expressed in probabilistic terms and is further influenced by non-CO2 emissions. We here explore how societal choices related to energy demand and specific mitigation options influence the size of carbo…

  • Recruitment through migrant social networks from Latvia to the United Kingdom: Motivations, processes and developments

    Open Access•David Mccollum, Elina Apsite-Berina•ARTICLE•MIGRATION LETTERS•2015

    A burgeoning body of literature exists in relation to the role of social networks in connecting migrant workers with employment opportunities, particularly in lower wage jobs. This evidence points to social networks being an attractive recruitment channel from the perspective of both migrants seeking employment and employers seeking employees. This analysis presents a wide breadth of original material, which examines recruitment through social ne…

  • New Mobilities Across the Life Course: A Framework for Analysing Demographically Linked Drivers of Migration

    Open Access•A Findlay, David Mccollum et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2015•Cited by: 69•References: 40

    Taking the life course as the central concern, the authors set out a conceptual framework and define some key research questions for a programme of research that explores how the linked lives of mobile people are situated in time–space within the economic, social, and cultural structures of contemporary society. Drawing on methodologically innovative techniques, these perspectives can offer new insights into the changing nature and meanings of mi…

  • Comparing future patterns of energy system change in 2 °C scenarios with historically observed rates of change

    Open Access•Mariësse A E van Sluisveld, Jorrit Harmsen et al.•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Change•2015•Cited by: 11

  • In what sense ‘distinctive’? The search for distinction amongst cross-border student migrants in the UK

    Open Access•Scott Tindal, Helen Packwood et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2015•Cited by: 23•References: 6

  • Flexible' workers for 'flexible' jobs? The labour market function of A8 migrant labour in the UK

    Open Access•David Mccollum, A Findlay•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2015•Cited by: 60•References: 23

    There is considerable academic and policy interest in how immigrants fare in the labour market of their host economy. This research is situated within these debates and explores the nexus between migrant labour and segmented labour markets. Specifically the analysis focuses on East-Central Europeans in Britain: a sizeable cohort of largely economic and recent migrants. A large quantity of interviews with low-wage employers and recruiters is used …

  • C and SDGs: United they stand, divided they fall

    Open Access•Christoph von Stechow, Jan C Minx et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Research Letters•2016

    The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the new international climate treaty could put 2015 into the history books as a defining year for setting human development on a more sustainable pathway. The global climate policy and SDG agendas are highly interconnected: the way that the climate problem is addressed strongly affects the prospects of meeting numerous other SDGs and vice versa. Drawing on existing scenario results from…

  • The Political Economy of Immigration Policy: The Example of Scotland

    Open Access•David Mccollum, Scott Tindal et al.•ARTICLE•Scottish Affairs•2016•References: 9

    The inward mobility of labour can serve as a driver of economic growth and the immigration policies of many countries are orientated towards this end. However immigration is also a contentious issue, with the general public often displaying hostility towards liberal immigration policies. The compromises between economic and political considerations that states make when developing immigration policy are poorly theorised in academic literature. Th…

  • The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century

    Open Access•Oliver Fricko, Peter Havlík et al.•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Change•2016•Cited by: 58•References: 10

    Studies of global environmental change make extensive use of scenarios to explore how the future can evolve under a consistent set of assumptions. The recently developed Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) create a framework for the study of climate-related scenario outcomes. Their five narratives span a wide range of worlds that vary in their challenges for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Here we provide background on the quantificati…

  • Fees, flows and imaginaries: Exploring the destination choices arising from intra-national student mobility

    A Findlay, Helen Packwood et al.•ARTICLE•Globalisation Societies and…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    Are intra-national student flows driven by the same forces as international student mobility? This paper addresses this question by analysing cross-border student mobility in the UK. The paper identifies four principles that one might expect to drive the destination choices of students from Scotland enrolling in English universities. Following a statistical analysis of student destination choices, it is argued that cross-border moves from Scotlan…

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