Housing – (Ph.D.)

As a top-rated research school with the ambition to play a leading role in academic and policy debates at national and international levels, it aims to recruit committed research students for the pursuit of innovative, cutting-edge research at PhD level. With its international linkages and research profile, the School provides a rich and lively scholarly environment in which to conduct doctoral research work. At present there are around 30 full-time PhD students in the School. A series of shared offices are available for PhD students and each full-time student has access to computer facilities. Research in the School is structured around the following broad themes:

* Sustainable consumption and production systems
* Poverty, social justice and entitlement
* Regional, city-region and neighbourhood governance
* Innovation and regeneration
* Complexity, urban evolution and environmental systems
* Pedagogy, knowledge and the built environment

These themes are explored at multiple scales (supra-national, national, regional and local),
in urban and rural spaces, and across different sectors (such as housing, environment, labour markets). Research work at the School of City and Regional Planning is organised into five main groups with a number of crosscutting research centres. Some of these focus work within research groups and others operate across research group boundaries.

Research areas of the Housing Group include:
* Social theory and houring, including the meaning of home and neighbourhoods
* Sustainable housing production
* Contribution of housing to urban regeneration
* The Governance, Planning and Management of Housing
* Poverty, Social Exclusion and Homelessness
* Housing Markets in Developing Countries (especially China and East Asia)