Housing quality matters. There are well-established links between the condition of homes and levels of educational attainment, health outcomes, social mobility, and economic growth (Boyd et al., 2025; Hock et al., 2023; Thiele, 2002). Housing conditions also underpin...
Wendy Murray who lived in Stevenson Street, in Glasgow’s Calton, was offered homeless accommodation within notorious Alexander Thomson Hotel, after Glasgow City Council decided her tenement block to be in a dangerous structural condition. Fortunately friends stepped...
This blog is the latest in a series exploring home improvements for older people in the UK, in collaboration with the Centre for Ageing Better. A disproportionate number of people over the age of 55 live in non-decent homes. A non-decent home includes the presence of...
There have been a number of high-profile evacuations from buildings in response to structural and fire safety concerns in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. In August 2017, residents of the Ledbury Estate were informed they would have to move out due to risks from...
Whilst we may think of policy making as a process dominated by rational thinking, there is growing interest in the role that emotions play. This research particularly focuses on the reciprocal dynamics that exist between policy ‘makers’ and policy ‘recipients’, and...
This blog by Jenny Preece, Jamie Brown, Jan Gilbertson, Rosie Smith and Vikki McCall (from Sheffield University, Building Research Establishment (BRE), Sheffield Hallam University and Stirling University) outlines the progress of an ongoing project to determine the...
UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence Co-Investigator Dr Jenny Preece, based at the University of Sheffield, reflects on an eventful week of presenting, engaging with sessions and networking at the Housing Studies Association Conference 2024 in Sheffield....
OurStory Scotland is an LGBTQIA+ community-led, voluntary and charitable organisation that exists to collect, archive, present and celebrate the life stories and experiences of fellow LGBTQ+ people living in Scotland. Since its inception in 2001, the archive has grown...
The national evaluation of home improvement services in England – carried out by the Building Research Establishment, Foundations, Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Stirling –...
I’m delighted to have been asked by the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) to write this blog for International Women’s Day 2024 as part of their ongoing EDI work.