Professor Harris Beider
Head of School, Professor of Communities and Public Policy
School of Social Sciences
- Email:
- Harris.Beider@bcu.ac.uk
Teaching is about creating an environment where students can work with you to grow, develop and transform their lives. Research is about applying knowledge to influence and change the public policy agenda, locally and globally. Harris became an academic to support students to make sense of the world and for his ideas to connect with people to make the world a better place.
Areas of Expertise
- Race and politics
- White working class
- Urban policy
- Housing and communities
Qualifications
- BA
- PhD
Research
- 2019 - Birmingham 2029
- 2019 - Anglo-Japanese Daiwa Foundation: Comparing social cohesion in Japan and the UK: £3,000
- 2018 - British Academy: Critical Review of Social Cohesion: £15,000
- 2017 - Rockefeller Brothers Fund/ Open Society US Programmes: Building grassroots cross-racial coalitions of interest in a hostile political context: $196,950
- 2016 - Open Society US Programmes: “The Other America” – white working class views on belonging, change, identity and immigration: $165,000
- 2013 - Sir John Egan/Coventry City Council/Coventry University: City-university project: £100,000
- 2013 - Economic and Social Research Council: Marketplace Exclusion: Representations, Resistances and Responses: £28,000
- 2012 - Open Society Foundations: Bridging Community Division: £35,000
- 2012 - Anglo-Japanese Daiwa Foundation: Comparing multiculturalism in UK and Japan: £10,000
- 2012 - GB Sasakawa Foundation: Comparing multiculturalism in UK and Japan: £3,000
- 2011 - Stonewall: Homophobia and Football: £10,000
- 2010 - Anglo-Japanese Daiwa Foundation: Grassroots symposium on multiculturalism in the UK and Japan: £10,000
- 2009 - Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Community Cohesion: A White Perspective: £95,000
- 2009 - HM Government: Promoting Community Cohesion and Preventing Violent Extremism in Higher and Further Education: £155,000
- 2009 - Birmingham City Council/MacArthur Foundation: Comparing Race, Renewal and Community Activism in Birmingham and Chicago: £100,000
- 2009 - Economic and Social Research Council: Community Cohesion –retrospective and prospective: £27,000
- 2009 - Japan Foundation: Comparing integration and cohesion: £8,000
- 2002 - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Empowering communities, improving housing- involving black and minority ethnic tenants and communities: £165,000
Publications
Books
- 2020 - Beider, H. & Chahal, K. The Other America The Reality of White Working Class Views on Identity, Race and Immigration. Bristol, Policy Press/University of Chicago Press
- 2016 - Beider, H. White Working Class Voices: Multiculturalism, Community-Building and Change. Bristol, Policy Press/University of Chicago Press
- 2012 - Beider, H. Race, Housing & Community. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell
- 2008 - Beider, H. (ed.) Neighbourhood Renewal & Housing Markets: Community Engagement in the US & UK. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing
Research Monographs (select)
- 2017 - Beider, H., Chahal, K. and Harwood. S. The Other America: white working class views on belonging, change, identity and immigration. New York, Open Society Foundations
- 2014 - Beider, H. Bridging community division: Building grassroots solutions to integration in Waltham Forest, London. Open Society Foundations
- 2011 - Beider, H. White working class views of neighbourhood, cohesion and change. Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Articles, chapters (select)
- 2015 - Beider, H. “Whiteness, class and grassroots perspectives on social change and difference” in The Political Quarterly, 85,3, pp.333-339.
- 2013 - Beider, H. In Britain, Is Extremism Really Winning? Open Society Foundations
- 2013 - Beider, H. “Uniting Communities”. London, Hope Not Hate
- 2012 - Beider, H., Williamson, C., and Johnson, N. Citizenship, Cohesion and Integration. London, The Labour Party
- 2012 - Beider, H. “Community Cohesion in the UK: National Challenges, Local Issues” in Dick, E. et al (eds.) Integration in Germany: Nomos publishing (in German)
- 2011 - Beider, H. “Integration on the local level in the UK, Spain and Germany”. Special Issue RaumPlanung City and Migration(s)“, April 2011 (in German)
- 2011 - Beider, H. & Netto, G. “Minority ethnic communities and housing: access, experiences and participation” in Craig, G., Chattoo, S. and Atkin, K.(eds.), Understanding 'Race' and Ethnicity'. Bristol, Policy Press
- 2010 - Beider, H. “Community Cohesion in the UK: national challenges, local problems” In KWI Policy Papers. KWI: Essen, Germany
- 2010 - Beider, H. “Identities: Fluid and Fixed” in Office for Public Management Future of Identity and Belonging. London, OPM
- 2010 - Beider, H., Popkin, S., and Levy, D., Comparative approaches to race and renewal in UK and US. Chicago, MacArthur Foundation
- 2010 - Beider, H. & Briggs, R Promoting Community Cohesion and Preventing Violent Extremism in Higher Education and Further Education. London, HM Government