CHR News Articles

CHR Research Fellow Julie Tian Miao has just been awarded the Regional Studies Association’s Early Career Research Grant of over £9,000. This research will explore the disjuncture of nationalised affordable housing strategies and localised human capital market in Chinese Cities.

Peter Etherington of The Guardian interviews Professor Duncan Maclennan about his views on housing and social problems in Scotland.

Dr Albert Sabater of CHR will be participating in a Leverhulme Trust sponsored roundtable workshop event at the University of Liverpool on the 24th January 2014. The workshop is on Ethnic diversity, population change and 'integration': exploring the evidence, and considering future research and...

Registration is now open for a two-day seminar on The Big Society, Localism and the Future of Social Housing which will be held in St Andrews on Thursday 13th and Friday 14th March 2014.

STV interview CHR Director, Professor Duncan Maclennan, about housing in St Andrews and the findings of the CHR research report “Growing Economies and Building Homes” (released 16th December 2013).

CHR Director, Professor Duncan Maclennan is awarded lifetime honorary membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

The CHR has released a research report 'Growing Economies and Building Homes' which examines the impacts of University led growth on the rental housing market in North East Fife.

Professor Duncan Maclennan has an article published in Modus magazine giving the preliminary findings of a RICS project currently underway at CHR. The project is to review growth and housing change in Brazil, China and India.

Albert Sabater of CHR has been successful in securing funding from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation for a project entitled 'Ethnic Economic Inequalities: Residential and Occupational Disadvantage'. The project will start in February next year and Albert will work jointly with Gemma Catney at the...

Staff from CHR recently contributed to the second event of the ESRC seminar series 'The Big Society, Localism and Housing Policy' in Belfast on the 24th/25th October 2013. Dr Kim McKee, the Principal Investigator of the series, Dr Tom Moore supported Dr Jenny Muir of Queen's University Belfast in...