PhD
My PhD research explores residents' experiences of purpose built mixed-tenure housing schemes in London. I am particularly interested in examining whether and how policy, planning and design factors might influence day-to-day life in these developments.
Hundreds of households have been contacted to participate in the research, either by completing a postal survey or by taking part in a brief face-to-face interview. Interviews have also been undertaken with housing associations, developers, planners and architects, in order to gain greater insights into how various case study housing schemes have been developed.
The research, which has been supported by an ESRC Studentship Award, is based in the Cities Programme at LSE and is supervised by Dr. Fran Tonkiss. Please contact me for more information.
Keywords: social mix(ing), mixed communities, mixed-tenure housing provision, housing/planning policy in England
Cambodia
I am also interested in exploring the impacts of capital investment and urban development on lower-income neighbourhoods in Phnom Penh. This proposed project is motivated by the urgent need to illuminate and critically assess the potential impacts of rapid urbanisation on Phnom Penh's residential neighbourhoods.
Keywords: housing rights; the urbanisation of capital; accumulation through dispossesion; entrepreneurial governance
Housing and Social Theory
More broadly, I am interested in various theoretical frameworks for critical engagement with the political economy of housing provision and neighbourhood restructuring. I am currently working on an application of the governmentality approach, to examine the relationship between political authorities and housing providers, in the context of various UK Governments' policies for tenure mixing. I am also interested in how (capital) accumulation and (political) regulation have shaped the processes and outcomes of neighbourhood restructuring in various contexts.
Keywords: governmentality (Foucault); the Regulation School; the spatial fix (Harvey)