Dr James Gregory

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, Higher Education Futures Institute, University of Birmingham (2022)

PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Government (2006)

MSc Political Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science (1999)

BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economics University of Oxford (1998)

Dr James Gregory first trained as a political philosopher at the London School of Economics, before moving to the Fabian Society, where he developed a long-standing interest in housing and urban development. With nearly two decades of empirical research experience, Dr Gregory has maintained an active engagement with the concepts and principles of political and moral philosophy, applying these to normative and empirical investigations of contemporary social policy issues.

Until 2022 Dr Gregory was Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM) at the University of Birmingham, where he developed and led primary research on the relationship between social housing and wellbeing. The results of this research are presented in a major monograph – Social Housing, Wellbeing and Welfare (2022) – and he also published in Journals such as Housing Studies and the Journal of Social Policy.

Dr Gregory developed and convenes the new BA Social Policy Module: Social Policy, Inequality and the Life Course.

Open to supervision of doctoral students seeking to examine the normative foundations of social policy and the welfare state.

Dr Gregory is currently developing new research projects on the social determinants of mental health and subjective wellbeing. He is also researching intergenerational inequalities in the housing market, in the context of welfare regimes.