Previous events in the Housing and Communities Research Network

Themes on the need for innovation to make private rented housing a more acceptable housing option and ‘Hope for Housing – the rebirth of Community-Led Housing’ will form the basis for events in the 2017-2018 seminar series.

6 June 2016 - The Future of Social Housing. Download copies of presentations from each of the presentations from this joint event with housing&Care21 

30 November 2016 - The re-emergency of community-led housing in the UK: A unified response to market dysfunction - Paul Chatterton

3 October 2016 - Networks and Fault Lines: The role of housing associations in supporting vulnerable places and people; a way forward in the 'Participation Society'? - Dr Gerard van Bortel 

Seminar 6: 7 March 2016
Making life worth living - Nick Hedges and the Shelter Photographs 1968-1972 - Presentation by Nick Crawson

Seminar 5: 8 February 2016
Financing affordable housing under localism - Presentation by Anita Blessing

Seminar 4: 18 January 2016
Learning from informality: Community-led housing in a global context - Presentation by Line Algoed

Seminar 3: 7 December 2015
Coping with cuts: the impact on private tenants of reductions in housing benefit - Presentation by Peter Kemp

Seminar 2: 16 November 2015
Unpacking the growth of the private rented sector in Birmingham - a niche analysis - Presentation by Ben Pattison

Seminar 1: 5 October 2015
Growing old together - Presentation by Jon Stevens

 

Seminar 6: 22 June 2015
Researching community land trusts in Australia: Balancing academia and activism - Presentation by Dr Louise Crabtree
(This event was cancelled)

Seminar 5: 19 May 2015
Hidden assumptions and broken promises? Decoding housing policy discourse - Presentation by James Gregory

Seminar 4: 23 March 2015
Community-led refurbishments of empty homes - the importance of partners - Presentations by David Mullins and Halima Sacranie

Seminar 3: 12 January 2015
Renewing Europe's Housing - Presentation by Chris Watson and Richard Turkington

Seminar 2: 17 November 2014
Decision making in large, non-profit housing organisations in the Netherlands and England - Presentation by Darinka Czischke

Seminar 1: September 2014
Community Land Trusts in US and UK - Presentation by Stephen Hill

Seminar 8: 29 April 2014
Generation Rent - facing the challenges of private rental expansion in Birmingham - Presentation by Ben Pattison, Steve Bentley and Mike Walsh

Seminar 7: 25 February 2014
Housing, race, community and conflict 50 years on - Presentation by Ricky Joseph and Alan Murie

Seminar 6: 21 January 2014
Housing, poverty and citizenship - the politics and principles of housing reform - Presentation by James Gregory

Seminar 5: 12 November 2013
The rise and fall of the Dutch social housing model - Presentation by Richard Ronald

Seminar 4: 8 October 2013
Tackling empty homes in Japan and the Midlands - what role for community-led action? - Presentations by Yoshinobu Kukuchi and Halima Sacranie

Seminar 3: 4 July 2013
A fresh approach to anti-social behaviour - reflecting on Peabody Report - Presentations by Chris Allen, Kathryn Farrow and Ozlem Ogtem Young

Seminar 2: 7 May 2013
Putting the 'social' back into housing - learning from localism and exploring potential of community-led housing from Austrian co-operative perspective on 'Vertical Social Capital' - Presentations by David Mullins and Richard Lang

Seminar 1: 5 March 2013
Finding a way to measure social impact. The institutional work of individuals within housing organisations - Presentations by Vanessa Wilkes, Doctoral Research Student