• Housing Policy and Practice Unit

I joined the Department in July, 2007 from Heriot-Watt University where I had been a lecturer in housing and planning for ten years.  I gained my PhD at Heriot-Watt on 'The Identification of Structures of Housing Provision in Rural Scotland'.  I did my first degree here at Stirling in Environmental Science and an MPhil in Town and Regional Planning at the University of Glasgow.  I worked as a researcher and teacher at Glasgow and have managed research for a Government agency.

I have two higher French qualifications - the Diplôme de Langue Française and Diplôme Superieur d'Etudes Françaises Modernes - and have working knowledge of Gaelic.

Since February 2010, I have been convenor of the Rural Housing Service and I have previously been a board member of the Housing Studies Association and PATH (Scotland).

• Social relations of rural housing provision
• Housing, planning and land markets
• Housing subsidy systems
• Epistemology and social research

• Governance, Participation and Inclusion

• HOUPA5-Managing Information (Co-ordinator)
• HOUPA6-Paying for Housing (Co-ordinator)
• SPC9PB-Housing Policy (Co-ordinator)

Books

• The Rural Housing Question, Bristol: Policy Press (with M. Bevan and N. Gallent).

• Housing Finance in the UK (2nd Edition) (with K. Gibb and M. Munro), Basingstoke: Macmillan.

• Housing Costs and Subsidies in Glasgow: The Impact of Housing Subsidies in the Glasgow Travel to Work Area (with K.E. Hancock, C.A. Jones, M. Munro, A. McGuckin, A. and H. Parkey), York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Journal Papers

• Reaching the parts other grants don’t reach?  The role of supported self-build housing in rural Scotland (with J. Morgan), Housing Studies, vol. 26, no. 4.

• Feminist Epistemologies and the Social Relations of Housing Provision, Housing, Theory and Society.

• Community Land Ownership, Housing and Sustainable Rural Communities, Planning Practice and Research, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 251-262.

• Planners, Developers and Power: A critical discourse analysis of the redevelopment of Leith Docks, Scotland, Planning Practice and Research, vol. 22, no. 4, pp 495-511 (with P. Matthews).

• Land Tenure Change and Rural Housing in Scotland, Scottish Geographical Journal, vol. 123, no. 1, pp 33-47.

• ‘The Best Laid Plans’?  An Assessment of Housing Association Provision in Rural Scotland, Policy and Politics, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 731-752.

• Landowners and the Structure of Affordable Housing Provision in Rural Scotland, Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 21, no 3, pp 349-358.

• Importing A Policy Problem? Affordable Housing Provision in Britain’s National Parks, Planning Practice and Research, vol. 19, no. 3, pp 251-266 (with F. Richards).

• The Planning System and the Provision of Affordable Housing in Rural Britain: A Comparison of the Scottish and English Experience, Housing Studies, vol.18, no.2, pp 201-217 (with K. Dunmore).

• Les Villes Ecossaises, pp 291-330 of N. Haumont, B. Jalowiecki, M. Munro and V. Szirmai, Villes Nouvelles et Villes Traditionnelles: Une Comparaison Internationale (with M. Munro), Paris: Editions l'Harmattan.

• Private Rented Housing in France, Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, vol. 13, no. 3, pp 301-326.

• Performance Assessment and Accountability in British Housing Management, Policy and Politics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp 63-74 (with D.F. Clapham).

• The Use and Interpretation of Tenant Satisfaction Surveys in British Social Housing, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, vol. 10, pp 317- 331 (with A.  Kearns).

Book Chapters

• Housing Allowances in France, in Housing Allowances in Comparative Perspective (ed P. Kemp), Bristol: Policy Press.

• Rental Housing Supply in Rural Scotland: The Role of Private Landowners, in D. Hughes and S. Lowe (ed.s) The Privately Rented Sector in a New Century, Bristol: Policy Press.

• Housing, pp 173-190 of P. Allmendinger, A. Prior and J. Raemaekers (ed.s) Introduction to Planning Practice, London: Wiley.

• Markets and Quasi- Markets in British Public Service Production: How Does the Customer Gain?, in Williams P.R. (Ed.) Management and Change in Social Housing, Cardiff: University of Cardiff.

Research Reports

• An Investigation of Occupancy Controls in Rural Housing (with J. Crawford), Edinburgh: Scottish Government.

• Planning for affordable housing in the Cairngorms National Park (with G. Bramley, K. Dunmore and L. Cousins) Edinburgh: Communities Scotland.

• The Use of Existing Housing Stock in Rural England (with L. Cairncross, L. Dowling, J. Morgan and F. Wager), London: Housing Corporation and Commission for Rural Communities.

• Cairngorms Local Housing Systems Analysis (with G. Bramley, T. Donohoe, D.S. Watkins, F. Wager and F. Warren), Grantown on Spey: Cairngorms National Park Authority.

• Evaluation of the Communities Scotland Rural Home Ownership Grant Mechanism (with J. Morgan and F. Wager), Edinburgh: Communities Scotland.

• Diversity and Equality in Planning: A Good Practice guide (with M. Higgins, C. Hague, A. Prior, H. Smith, S. McIntosh, F. Warren and G. Netto), London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

• Review of Housing Association Governance (with H. Pawson, M. Munro, L. Cairncross, F. Warren and D. Lomax), Edinburgh: Communities Scotland.

• Evaluation of Housing Association Grant for Rent in Scotland, 1989-2002 (with G. Bramley, J. Morgan, G. Bowles, K. Karley, S. Wilcox and L. Rosenburg), Edinburgh: Scottish Executive.

• The Countryside Agency Diversity Review: Options for Implementation (with C. Ward-Thompson, S. Bell, N. Morris, G. Netto, J. Raemaekers, P. Travlou and M. Chapman), Cheltenham: The Countryside Agency.

• Measuring and Predicting the Long-Term Impact of the Right-to-Buy (with H. Pawson, C. Leishman and C. Jones), Edinburgh Communities Scotland.

• Potential Land Supply for Housing in Scotland, Edinburgh: Communities Scotland.

• Improving Understanding of the Housing Experiences of Minority Ethnic Communities in Aberdeen City (with G. Netto, C. Fancy, D. Lomax and H. Smith), Aberdeen: Communities Scotland.

• Improving Understanding of the Housing Experiences of Minority Ethnic Communities in Aberdeenshire and Moray (with G. Netto, C. Fancy, D. Lomax and H. Smith), Aberdeen: Communities Scotland.

• Factors Affecting Land Supply for Affordable Housing in Rural Scotland (with M. Higgins, H. Pawson, L. Rosenburg, C. Hague, G. Bramley and C. Storey), Edinburgh: Scottish Executive.

• Selling and Developing Land and Buildings for Renting and Low Cost Home Ownership: The Views of Landowners (with C. Storey, G. Bramley and K. Dunmore), Edinburgh: Scottish Homes/ Scottish Landowners' Federation.

• [Pre 2000 reports available on request]

Edited Books

• Changing Housing Finance Systems, Studies in Housing No.3, Glasgow: Centre for Housing Research, University of Glasgow.

• The development and application of feminist realist epistemologies