1. Local Place Study: Liverpool and Stockport
By the end of this lesson you will:
Have recapped how change is measured through the 4 measures
Have considered the local, regional, national and global influences for Liverpool and Stockport
Have applied qualitative and quantitative data measurements to your 2 place studies

2. Learning Outcomes EQ1: How and why do places vary?
Content
This series of lessons is all about your own data collection into how Liverpool has changed (we have started this already) and how this compares to Stockport (we have also started this!)
Process
We will do this by looking at different methods of collecting data and compiling some data that we can analyse next lesson.
Skill
Interpretation of oral accounts of the values and lived experiences of places from different interest groups and ethnic communities.
Use of the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) database to understand variations in levels and types of deprivation.

3. What the spec wants you to know:
1. Regional and national influences have shaped the characteristics of your chosen places. These places can be represented in a variety of different forms, giving contrasting images to that presented more formally and statistically. How the lives of students and those of others are affected by this continuity and change, both real and imagined.(4A.3a)
2. International and global influences that have shaped your chosen places. These places can be represented in a variety of different forms, giving contrasting images to that presented more formally and statistically. How the lives of students and those of others are affected by this continuity and change, both real and imagined. (P: increasing roles of TNCs and IGOs).(4A.3b)
3. Consideration of the way in which economic and social changes in your chosen places have influenced people’s identity. (4) (A: Attitudes on changes range from cultural erosion to enrichment). (4A.3c)

4. Regenerating Places. Using data to identify key changes to our area.

5. influenced by external factors?
Both Liverpool and Stockport are influenced by external factors which change the area
These are:
Regional (north west)
National (UK)
International (EU/Trade Blocs)
Global (TNCs / UN)
How is Stockport
influenced by external factors?
Global
Regional
National
International

6. Let’s start with Stockport
Group 1:
Look into how international influences have shaped the town. What about the EU? Have any policies helped or hindered the city? Will Brexit have any impact?
Look into the EU funding for Cale Green
Group 2:
Look into global factors- consider globalisation in terms of transport and accessibility. Are there any TNCs in the area? How connected are we? What about internet speeds compared to other areas in the country? Does this have an impact?
Group 3:
Look at national influences and whether the government have made any policy changes which might help develop Stockport. What changes can you find using the IMD data or census data from the 2011 census?
Group 4:
Look at regional influences. How does our area interact with other settlements? How are we connected? Are we linked with any other regional centres?

7. Social Changes in our area
To find out about how social changes and how they have influenced the North West, you need to conduct some qualitative and quantitative research.
Quantitative methods:
Quality of Life survey
Area profiling
Qualitative methods:
Photos
Interviews

8. Method 1: Quality of Life Survey (quantitative)
QoL broadly means people’s wellbeing in a social or environmental sense, rather than economic.
Socially, we look at health, safety, quality of housing and the sense of community and environmentally we look at the quality of air, buildings and noise.
We can measure social factors using surveys and speaking to people, and quality using methods such as an EQS and decibel readings.
For your QoL survey, you should do this with five different people. This therefore may need to be homework so you can survey older people who will more likely to recognise changes in the area.

9. Method 2: Area Profiling (quantitative)
This uses census data to identify the population characteristics of an area. Census data is available from the Office of National Statistics and normally from local council’s website, as they use this data to inform policies and regeneration.
Complete the template for the area profiling using census data.

10. Method 3: Photos (qualitative)
Photos of places can be a source of fascination, and mean that you can study your own place using images that people are likely to have, or tell you about. An older generation can show you photos of changes that have taken place.
If you can’t find any old photos from members of your friends or family, you can use websites.
Find yourself five photos of key areas of Stockport, and see if you can find a modern day picture of the same for a direct comparison. Try finding a picture of the following areas:
Station
Merseyway
Stockport Grammar School
Two areas of your choice

11. Method 4: Interviews (qualitative)
Interviews help record people’s lived experiences. They can be structured (where everyone is asked individual questions) or semi-structured (with core questions for everyone, but also the freedom to go ‘off-script’ where appropriate.
As part of your homework, alongside the QoL survey, you need to conduct a structured interview with the same five people that you complete the QoL survey with.

12. What does this tell us about East London in 1957?
‘Some days’, says Mrs Landon, ‘you see so many you didn’t know which to talk to.’ She kept a record over a week of all the people she saw in the street and whom she considered herself to ‘know’. There were 63 people in all, some seen many times and 38 of them relatives of at least one other person out of the 63’.
What does this tell us about East London in 1957?

13. Community and Centripetal Forces
Mrs Landon is talking about a sense of community. Geographers and sociologists argue that there were centripetal forces during the 1957s in London- this means forces that drew people together to form a community. The East End of London had a strong sense of community, predominately from family ties: sons worked with their fathers, daughters worked with mothers, they met partners from family friendships and so on.
Is it the same now?
Do you think you would find similar views for Stockport and Liverpool?

14. So what about Liverpool?
TASK:
We obviously can’t do the interviews and quality of life survey, but we can do the rest.
Complete the same research into policies and influences that your group did earlier, find 5 comparison photos and complete your census profile using the same template.

15. Local Place Study: Liverpool and Stockport
By the end of this lesson you will:
Have recapped how change is measured through the 4 measures
Have considered the local, regional, national and global influences for Liverpool and Stockport
Have applied qualitative and quantitative data measurements to your 2 place studies