Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
I am Research Chair in Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield. My main expertise lies around social inequalities and problems in cities, housing issues and crime. I was the first Director of the Research Centre for Social Sciences at the University of York where I was also Reader in Urban Studies and Criminology. Before that I directed the Housing and Community Research Unit at the University of Tasmania (Australia) and cut my teeth in urban and housing research at the University of Glasgow's Department of Urban Studies.
How the super rich conquered London
May 29, 2020 14:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Over cups of tea in his ramshackle London home I chatted with a novelist. It felt a valuable opportunity, given his multiple fictional treatments of London, to discuss the citys rapid changes that I was also writing...
London's extraordinary surplus of empty luxury apartments revealed
Oct 28, 2018 12:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views
More than 500 high-rise developments are in progress across the city of London. For a nation in the grips of a housing crisis, this should be good news. But in reality, this will bring hardly any benefits for those looking...
Three things we can all learn from people who don't use smartphones or social media
Sep 25, 2018 18:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Many of us spend hours every day tethered to our devices, pawing at the screen to see if it will deliver a few more likes or emails, monitoring the world and honing our online presence. Social networking platforms such as...
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