Author: Atiya Mahmood

Year of DDRG Award: 1996

Grantee University: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Dissertation Title: Work and Home Boundaries: Socio-Spatial Analysis of Women's Live-Work Environments

Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Gerontology Department, Simon Fraser University

Research Subject Areas: Aging, Environment, Health

Biography:
Atiya Mahmood's research areas are health and built environment with focus on housing for older adults, neighborhood environment and active living, socio-cultural factors in homecare, and gerotechnology. Dr. Mahmood's current funded projects include: community environment and physical activity in older adults, gerotechnology, caregiving and aging in place; housing for ethnic older adults, and the role of physical environment patient safety and staff performance in long-term care settings.

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• The Relative Importance of Space and Race in Urban Young Adult Labor Markets
• Getting Saved From Poverty: Religion in Poverty to Work Programs
• Paths to Employment: The Role of Social Networks and Space for Women on Welfare in San Francisco
• Place or Person?: A Labor Market Analysis of Central-City Poverty
• Work and Home Boundaries: Socio-Spatial Analysis of Women's Live-Work Environments
• The Work of Cities: Underemployment and Urban Change in Late-Century America
• Welfare to Work Transition With Public Housing Residents: Applications of the Transtheoretical Model
• Finding Work in the City
• Transit Turning Inside Out: Federal Transportation Policy and Inner-City Accessibility During the ISTEA Years
• The Geography of Opportunity and Vulnerability: State TANF Policy, Welfare Dependency, and the Diversity of Welfare Caseloads
• The Role of Labor Market Intermediaries in Promoting Employment Access and Mobility: A Supply- and Demand-Side Approach
• Geographic Perspectives on Ethnic Labor Market Segmentation in the United States
• Multi-Worker Households Residential Location Choices--A Disaggregate Comparative Approach
• Off to the (Labor) Market: Women, Work, and Welfare Reform in 21st Century American Cities