CHR News Articles

CHR hosted a Supporting People: Client Records & Outcome Networking and Training event at the University of Sheffield on 19th February 2015. The event gave an overview of the project, its recent key findings, examples of how the data is used and a training demonstration.

‘Deconstructing Generation Rent’ was the focus of a CHR seminar held at the University of Sheffield on 13th February 2015. The aim of the event was to challenge popular notions of ‘generation rent’ by bringing together a range of different disciplinary, methodological and theoretical perspectives...

CHR welcomes two new Qualitative Research Assistants: Joe Crawford and Jenny Hoolachan. Both studied for their PhD in Housing at the University of Stirling.

Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs, Dr Louise Reid, and Prof Colin Hunter have published an article “Home-ing on Domestic Energy Research” in Energy Research and Social Science. The article promotes the ‘home’ as the locus of analysis in domestic energy research.

Researchers from the Universities of St Andrews, Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam, have been commissioned to develop a pan Scotland assessment of affordable housing need.

Researchers from the Universities of St Andrews and Sheffield,have been commissioned by the Scottish Government to undertake research on the housing aspirations of people in Scotland.

Dr Kim McKee was interviewed for a front-page feature on problems in Scotland's Private Rented Sector.

Papers are invited for a one-day seminar at the University of Sheffield (13/02/15) that discusses the interrelated issues of young people’s housing options and future welfare.

Dr Kim McKee presented her research on: “Social Housing and the ‘New Localism’ – at a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley.

Drs Kim McKee and Tom Moore have published a blog “Problematising Generation Rent” from their on-going Mind the (Housing) Wealth Gap research project.