Current projects
Choice
- Living in a small home
- The geography of specialist housing for older people in England: comparing provision and need
- COVID-19 and domestic abuse: tracing changes in policy, legislation and discourse (COVID-19 project)
- Leaseholder experiences of the UK ‘cladding scandal’: understanding the pathways to mental wellbeing impacts
- Finding housing, making home: Romanian migrants in Post-Brexit/COVID-19 Britain
Economy
- The potential role of modular construction in addressing systemic supply issues
- The impact of COVID-19 on the economy and UK housing market (COVID-19)
Governance
- Are housing issues wicked issues?
- Drivers of performance in social housing
- Enabling community-led housing through local government
- Rent control: evidence review
- Understanding the discrepancies between the number of tenancies in the private rented sector and the number of deposits protected
- The rented sector, evictions and activism (COVID-19 project)
- Establishing an evidence base for the development of a viable intermediate rent model for the Northern Ireland housing market
Homelessness
- COVID-19 and homelessness: learning from crisis to inform future policy (COVID-19 project
Place
Wider Drivers
- The contested politics of residential space
- Decarbonisation of the UK housing stock
- Housing systems, their institutions and their resilience (COVID-19 project)
- Ethnic inequalities in housing: policy and practice understandings and responses
Cross-cutting
- Lived experience of suburbanised poverty: an international evidence review
- Measuring the impact of social housing in Scotland: economic, social, health and well-being
- Retrofit of pre-1919 Glasgow tenement housing demonstration project
Completed projects
2020
- Improving compliance with private rented sector legislation
- An evaluation and illustrative pilot of the Scottish Housing Needs and Demand Assessment (HNDA) tool
- Alternative approaches to resolving housing disputes
- Motherhood and homelessness – intersectional challenges of parenting, health and identity
- Forms and mechanisms of exclusion in contemporary housing systems
- Good practice review in international and UK lesson sharing/learning and policy transfer
- The micro-economics of private housing development and land markets
- Delivering design value
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Social Mobility
- Measuring the impact of social housing in Scotland: economic, social, health and well-being
- The impact of the pandemic on housing and placemaking (COVID-19 project)
- Addressing poor quality housing in older age
- Understanding Approaches to Tenant Participation in the Private Rented Sector in Northern Ireland
2019
- Understanding approaches to tenant participation: a scoping study (December 2019)
- How can innovation contribute to addressing the UK housing crisis? (September 2019)
- Beyond Generation Rent: understanding the aspirations of older private renters (August 2019)
- Homelessness prevention in the UK (July 2019)
- Housing wealth inequalities in Scotland (July 2019)
- How should we evaluate housing outcomes?
- How does the land supply system affect the business of UK speculative housebuilding? An evidence review
2018:
- Design Value: what does it mean and how do we measure it? (November 2018)
- Monitoring changes in the UK private rented sector (November 2018)
- International evidence review: economic impacts and incidence of housing taxation (September 2018)
- International evidence review: policies to improve housing affordability at all spatial scales (September 2018)
- Evidencing the impact of welfare reform on housing associations (August 2018)
- The ‘frustrated’ housing aspirations of generation rent (August 2018)
- Understanding reconfigured aspirations, expectations and choice (March 2018)
