Centre for Urban Development

and Environmental Management

Staff

Jenny Seavers
Course Leader, Human Geography and Joint Courses (Undergraduate)
Tel: +44 (0)113 283 2600 ext. 3226
Email: j.seavers@leedsmet.ac.uk

Jenny's research interests focus on three key areas:

Housing and related financial issues - for example rent arrears, mortgage repossessions, and housing wealth, gains and losses.

Housing and migration - for example, joint decision making and the role of partners in migration decisions, attitudes to moving and buying.

Young people, money and risk - for example financial concerns of young people in general, students, and socially marginalized young people, and the implications for parents.

Currently Jenny has two research projects: an ESRC project (£104,649) Young people, money and risk in early adult life (R000237993), which is part of the ESRC Youth and Citizenship programme, and an associated study funded by the DfEE (£10,000) concerned specifically with the financial experiences of socially excluded young people. Both projects are held jointly with Sandra Hutton in the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York. Jenny is also a member of the course team for the new geography course, DD304 Understanding Cities.

Recent Publications include:

Cochrane C, Seavers J and Sarre P (1996) Maximising Participation in the Labour Market. A Report for Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire Economic Partnership, September 1996.

Hamnett C and Seavers J (1996) Housing Wealth and Incomes. In J Hills (ed) New Inequalities. The Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the United Kingdom (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge), 348-73.

Seavers J (1996) Review - Gilroy R and Woods R (eds) (1994) Housing Women, Gender, Place and Culture, vol. 3, no.1.

Ford J and Seavers J (1998) Housing Associations and Rent Arrears: Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviour (Chartered Institute of Housing: Coventry).

Ford J and Seavers J (1998) Rent arrears amongst social tenants: reasons and responses. Joseph Rowntree Foundation Findings December 1998 (D18).

Ford J and Seavers J (1998) A collector's item, Inside Housing, November.

Coles B, Rugg J and Seavers J (1999) Young adults living in the parental home: the implications of extended youth transitions for housing and social policy. In J Rugg (ed) Young People, Housing and Social Policy (Routledge: London).

Nettleton S, Burrows R, England J and Seavers J (1999) Losing the Family Home : Understanding the Social Consequences of Mortgage Repossession (York Publishing Services: York).

Nettleton S, Burrows R, England J and Seavers J (1999) The social consequences of mortgage repossession for parents and their children. Joseph Rowntree Foundation Findings August 1999 (829).

Seavers J (1999) Residential relocation of couples: the joint decision making process considered. In P Boyle and K Halfacree (eds) Migration and Gender in Britain and Ireland (Routledge: London), 151-71.

Seavers J (1999) Social consequences of city life. In C Brook and K Pain (eds) City Themes (Open University Press: Milton Keynes), 29-81.

Seavers J and Hutton S (2000) Money and purse strings: young people and independence, Youth, Citizenship and Social Change ESRC Programme Newsletter.

Ford J and Seavers J (forthcoming) Attitudes to moving and debt: household behaviour in the 1990s (Council of Mortgage Lenders).

Seavers J (forthcoming) Attitudes to moving and debt: household behaviour in the 1990s, Housing Finance.

Seavers J and Hutton S (forthcoming) With a little help from….their parents? (ESRC and Youthpress).