Institute for Housing, Urban and Real Estate Research
The Institute of Housing, Urban and Real Estate Research is among the UK’s top social and urban policy research centres with 25 per cent of its research outputs classed as ‘world leading’ in the UK Government’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
Its work covers a broad range of themes including: housing markets and affordability, commercial property markets; homelessness and social exclusion; housing policy, management and governance; diversity and black and minority ethnic communities; housing development, design and regeneration; neighbourhoods and deprivation; and housing and urbanisation in China.
It has a robust track record of externally funded research, including research council and charitable funding as well as commissions from a wide range of government departments and agencies throughout the UK and beyond.
Our taught postgraduate programmes reflect these areas of research and benefit from the expertise of internationally renowned professors (Glen Bramley, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Colin Jones, Hal Pawson, Mark Stephens and Ya Ping Wang) and collaborative links with other UK and overseas institutions including the Universities of York, Bristol, Glasgow, Beijing and Tsingua Universities, TU Delft and the Universities of New South Wales, Sydney and Auckland.
