People in CHASM

The Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM) is based jointly in the School of Social Policy and the Birmingham Business School within the College of Social Sciences.

Core members of CHASM

PhD doctoral researchers

  • Chenyu Bao - Gender Roles and Household Financial Decisions: A UK-China Comparative Study
  • Carl Packman - What is the financial situation and self-reported advice needs of the new ‘precariat’ in the UK?
  • Sarah Usman - Personal behaviour analysis: Financial planning of local business in Papua-Indonesia
  • Chen Zhan - Housing Wealth and Housing Policy: Evidence from China.

Honorary research fellows

  • Professor Richard Lang, Faculty of Economics and Management and Director of the Competence Centre of Management of Cooperatives at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy
  • Thea Raisbeck, Honorary Research Associate at the University of Birmingham and an Associate of Spring Housing
  • Dr Halima Sacranie, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and group co-ordinator for the Housing and Communities Research Group.

Operational support

CHASM Centre Manager: Davina Weston. Email: d.weston.1@bham.ac.uk

CHASM Communications and Impact Manager: Fiona Handscomb. Email: f.handscomb@bham.ac.uk