Email: j.gregory@bham.ac.uk
James Gregory received his doctorate in political theory before moving into social and housing policy research. His housing research started at the Fabian Society, where he was a Senior Research Fellow. James is interested in homeownership, asset-based welfare, and neighbourhood research. In addition to a number of think-tank reports, James has recently published papers in Critical Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, and the International Journal of Housing Policy.
Research Interests
- Social justice and citizenship
- Social housing and welfare
- Lettings policy
- Hybrid housing models
- Asset-based welfare
Publications
- James Gregory, David Mullins, Peter Redman and Alan Murie, Social Housing and the Good Society, Policy Futures Report, 2016.
- 'How not to be an egalitarian: the politics of homeownership and property-owning democracy', International Journal of Housing Policy, 2016
- ‘Engineering Compassion: The Institutional Structure of Virtue’, Journal of Social Policy (online November 2014)
- What do we want from the ‘asset-effect’? CHASM Briefing Paper, 2014.
- The Search for an Asset-Effect: What do we want from the ‘asset-effect’? Critical Social Policy, June 2014 (online June 2014)
- Homes for Citizens: the politics of a fair housing policy, The Fabian Society (ed.) (2011)
- The Culture of Liberalism and the Virtue of 'Balance', The European Journal of Political Theory, January 2014; vol. 13, 1.
- Home-work: Helping London's social tenants into employment (with J Todd), the Centre for London (2012).
- Can Housing Work for the Workers?, Touchstone Papers, Trades Union Congress (2011).
- Diversity and Solidarity: Crisis, what crisis?, The Runnymede Trust (2011).
- Two Paradoxes of Welfare, (with T Horton) Political Quarterly, April (2010).
- Whose Middle is it Anyway?: Why universalism matters, (with T Horton) Public Policy Research, 16(4) (2010).
- The Political Philosophy of Walzer's Social Criticism, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 36(9) (2010).
- The Solidarity Society: why we can afford to end poverty, and how to do it with public support, The Fabian Society (2009) (with T Horton).
- Gregory, J. (2009) In the In the Mix: narrowing the gap between public and private housing, The Fabian Society (2009).