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Record W4415091231 · doi:10.32920/30338023.v1

The Network of excellence on Regional Liveable Diversity

2025· preprint· en· W4415091231 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicRegional Development and Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetropolitan areaDiversity (politics)ExcellenceEthnic groupInclusion (mineral)Regional policyTable (database)Focus group

Abstract

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<p dir="ltr">This report provides a comparative insight into regional ethnic diversity across five countries. We include regional/provincial site studies for each country with accompanying data visualisations from the nearest metropolitan cities to these regional/provincial sites. With a focus on both national and localised regional policies to manage regional migration, we present findings from desktop reviews for each site to understand ethnic diversity alongside overarching findings from the comparative approach.</p><p dir="ltr">The NoE was originally funded to conduct a pilot project that involved fieldwork at one regional site per country for data collection of relevant policy and practice documents and other data to develop the site reports for each location. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the original NoE pilot study approach, restricting opportunities for regional fieldwork in Australia, Canada and Europe. In light of these impacts, the NoE team worked together to redesign the pilot project plan. The project was revised to focus on desktop research with a data visualisation output. This has resulted in the inclusion of additional regional sites from the three European countries, two Canadian locations and two Australian locations (see Table 1).</p><p dir="ltr">The pilot study was revised to address the following objectives, guided by the research questions presented below.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Objectives</b></p><ol><li>To better understand the intersection of migration policies and changes in non-metropolitan cities and towns in five countries of interest (Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands).</li><li>To examine changes to ethnic diversification, and the ‘liveable diversity’ of regional areas over the last 10 years, and how this differs across national contexts.</li><li>To consider the ways non-metropolitan areas are responding to changes in diversity as reflected in local strategic policies and planning (or indeed their absence).</li></ol><p dir="ltr"><b>Research questions</b><br>• How do the macro migration policies differ in our countries of interest as they relate to primary and secondary migration to non-metropolitan areas?<br>• How have non-metropolitan areas changed in their socio-demographic compositions in response to broader changes in macro migration policies?<br>• At the local level, how are social, economic and/or cultural aspects of these non-metropolitan areas reflected in local policies and practices?</p><p dir="ltr">Let me know if you need the formatting adapted to a specific style guide (e.g., APA, Chicago, MLA).</p>

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.423
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.079
GPT teacher head0.335
Teacher spread0.256 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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