CHR News Articles

Dr Kim McKee has published a co-authored paper, with Tom Moore and Pauline McLoughlin

Dr Kim McKee (Director, CHR) delivered a session on Social Housing Futures at an event for front-line housing staff in Lanarkshire

Researchers from the Centre for Housing Research presented at the 2015 Housing Studies Association annual conference, which was held at the University of York 8-10 April

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has recently published the set of work concerning their poverty and ethnicity programme, which includes the report by Albert Sabater (CHR Associate) and Gemma Catney on ethnic minority disadvantage in the labour market.

Dr Louise Reid and Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs have been invited to present their work on domestic energy prosumption as part of the Scottish Government’s Climate Change Seminar Series on 25th March 2015.

CHR will be supporting Fife Council's plans for WWF Earth Hour on March 28th, an event to encourage awareness of climate change, sustainability and carbon reduction

Drs Jenny Muir and Kim McKee have published the third and final briefing paper arising from the Big Society, Localism and Housing Policy ESRC funded seminar series.

Louise Reid and Kim McKee have won a prestigious ESRC collaborative PhD studentship award with the James Hutton Institute. This studentship will critically examine the utility of ‘health smart homes' and will begin in Autumn 2015.

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...