Dr Mhairi Ross, a recent PhD graduate, discusses her thesis on lone mothers' experiences in Easterhouse since the 1980s, emphasising the significance of female social networks and the impact of gender-based inequalities and structural violence. As one of the first...
CaCHE Knowledge Exchange Fellow Dr Gareth Young reflects on LGBT History Month and the work still required to make housing accessible for all. Last month marked LGBT History Month which began back in 1994 in the USA by high school teacher Rodney Wilson who was...
The blog discusses the connection between housing quality and mental health, highlighting the role of epigenetics in understanding this association and sharing preliminary findings that suggest DNA methylation mediates the link between poor housing quality and...
The way we heat our homes needs to change fast. In this short article, researchers at Sheffield Hallam University explain current attempts to capture a history of home heating as the curtain begins to fall on the era of fossil-fuelled systems. The researchers are...
In this blog post, Michael Tornow, Senior Health Improvement Officer with Public Health Scotland, introduces ‘Healthy Housing for Scotland’ – a briefing paper published by PHS which outlines evidence for how housing impacts on health and wellbeing and makes...