CHR News Articles

Duncan has retired, on March 31st, from his full time Chair at the School of Geography and Geosciences at the University of St Andrews and stepped down from the Directorship of the Centre for Housing Research.

The third and final seminar of the ESRC seminar series The Big Society, Localism and Housing Policy was held at the University of St Andrews on Thursday 13th and Friday 14th March 2014. The seminar was convened by Dr Kim McKee (Principal Investigator of the project) and supported by Dr Tom Moore,...

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.