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Overview

Iris Levin was affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and contributed significantly to the field of social sciences. Their research spanned multiple subfields including sociology and political science, finance, demography, education, and urban studies. The scope of their work covered a range of topics related to urban environments, social issues, and economic factors influencing housing and migration.

The main topics addressed in their body of work included:

  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Urban Planning and Governance

Iris Levin's recent publications, often reflecting collaboration with other researchers, focused on urban and social issues. Notable papers included:

  • "Creating mixed communities through housing policies: Global perspectives" (2021), Journal of Urban Affairs
  • "Accessing green space in Melbourne: Measuring inequity and household mobility" (2020), Landscape and Urban Planning
  • "Green gentrification or gentrified greening: Metropolitan Melbourne" (2021), Land Use Policy
  • "Green space and subjective well-being in the Just City: A scoping review" (2021), Environmental Science & Policy
  • "Evaluation and learning in public housing urban renewal" (2021), AHURI Final Report

The publications demonstrated a focus on housing policy, urban green space, social equity, and public housing renewal. The research covered a geographic scope that included metropolitan Melbourne as well as broader global perspectives on housing.

Levin also published a book titled Migration and Urban Transitions in Australia (2022) through Springer International Publishing, which contributed to their work on migration and urban demographic shifts.

Frequent collaborators in their research included Christian Nygaard, Wendy Stone, Kathy Arthurson, Farahnaz Sharifi, and Peter Newton. This collaboration network reflected a multidisciplinary approach often seen in social science research addressing complex urban and societal challenges.

The main venues where Levin's research was published included:

  • AHURI Final Report
  • Journal of Urban Affairs
  • Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Land Use Policy
  • Environmental Science & Policy

Levin's work contributed to understanding social and environmental dynamics within urban settings, addressing themes such as equity in access to green spaces, the effects of gentrification, and policy approaches to housing diversity and renewal.

Best Publications

  • On the contribution of kindergarten writing to grade 1 literacy: A longitudinal study in Hebrew

    Evelyn Shatil;David L. Share;Iris Levin

  • Mother–child joint writing in low SES

    Dorit Aram;Iris Levin

  • How Is Emergent Writing Based on Drawing? Analyses of Children's Products and Their Sorting by Children and Mothers.

    Iris Levin;Adriana G. Bus

  • The relationship between anxiety and stuttering: a multidimensional approach

    Ruth Ezrati-Vinacour;Iris Levin

  • Learning to read and write in Hebrew.

    David Share;Iris Levin

  • Antecedents and consequences of maternal involvement in children's homework : A longitudinal analysis

    Iris Levin;Rachel Levy-Shiff;Talya Appelbaum-Peled;Idit Katz

  • The role of maternal mediation of writing to kindergartners in promoting literacy in school: A longitudinal perspective

    Dorit Aram;Iris Levin

  • Writing in Preschoolers: An Age-Related Analysis.

    Liliana Tolchinsky-Landsmann;Iris Levin

  • Morphology and spelling among Hebrew-speaking children: from kindergarten to first grade

    Iris Levin;Dorit Ravid;Sharon Rapaport

  • Writing starts with own name writing: From scribbling to conventional spelling in Israeli and Dutch children

    Iris Levin;Anna Both–De Vries;Dorit Aram;Adriana Bus

  • Mother-Child Joint Writing and Storybook Reading: Relations With Literacy Among Low SES Kindergartners

    Dorit Aram;Iris Levin

  • Learning of Letter Names and Sounds and Their Contribution to Word Recognition.

    Iris Levin;Sivan Shatil-Carmon;Ornit Asif-Rave

  • Small Wins Big Analytic Pinyin Skills Promote Chinese Word Reading

    Dan Lin;Catherine McBride-Chang;Hua Shu;Yuping Zhang

  • The Linguistic Affiliation Constraint and phoneme recognition in diglossic Arabic.

    Elinor Saiegh-Haddad;Iris Levin;Nareman Hende;Margalit Ziv

  • Visual spatial skill: a consequence of learning to read?

    Catherine McBride-Chang;Yanling Zhou;Jeung-Ryeul Cho;Dorit Aram

  • The Development of Time Concepts in Young Children: Reasoning about Duration.

    Iris Levin

  • Letter names: Effect on letter saying, spelling, and word recognition in Hebrew

    Iris Levin;Sigal Patel;Tamar Margalit;Noa Barad

  • Mother–child joint writing and storybook reading and their effects on kindergartners’ literacy: an intervention study

    Iris Levin;Dorit Aram

  • Sensitivity to phonological, morphological, and semantic cues in early reading and writing in Hebrew

    Iris Levin;Ofra Korat

  • EMERGENCE OF REPRESENTATION IN DRAWING: THE RELATION BETWEEN KINEMATIC AND REFERENTIAL ASPECTS

    Esther Adi-Japha;Iris Levin;Sorin Solomon

  • Mother–Child Joint Writing andStorybook Reading: Relations WithLiteracy Among Low SES Kindergartners

    Dorit Aram;Iris Levin

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine McBride-Chang
Catherine McBride-Chang Purdue University West Lafayette
Hua Shu
Hua Shu Beijing Normal University
Robert S. Siegler
Robert S. Siegler Columbia University
David L. Share
David L. Share University of Haifa
Adriana G. Bus
Adriana G. Bus University of Stavanger
Rebecca Treiman
Rebecca Treiman Washington University in St. Louis
Nachshon Meiran
Nachshon Meiran Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Linnea C. Ehri
Linnea C. Ehri City University of New York

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