REP Research Roundup: June
Research Outputs
The department continues to publish a high-volume of quality research, find below highlights since May this year:
- Lee, J. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2968-7582 (2022) Housing quality determinants of depression and suicide ideation by age and gender. Housing Studies. pp. 1-27. ISSN 1466-1810 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2056151
- Cooke, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3309-7921 , Fiorentino, S. , Harris, R. , Livingstone, N. and McAllister, P. (2022) Corporate occupiers’ attitude to flex space in the post-Covid environment. Journal of Property Investment and Finance. ISSN 1463-578X doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPIF-02-2022-0011 ID: 104941
- Foye, C. (2022) Framing the housing crisis: how think-tanks frame politics and science to advance policy agendas. Geoforum. ISSN 0016-7185 (In Press) ID: 105447
Research Impact News
An impact project funded by the Rapid Response Policy Engagement funds from Research England led by Prof. Angelique Chettiparamb was selected as a finalist for the University Research Impact award for 2022. The project is titled ‘Discovering land for internal migrants in Kochi, Kerala’. The summary of the project is provided below:
Discovering land for housing migrant workers in Kochi, India
By working with public policymakers in the Indian city of Kochi, researchers at Reading are improving access to affordable housing for the city’s migrant workers. Kochi is the most densely populated city in the Kerala region of India. High demand for affordable housing means that workers who migrate to the city from other parts of India are often forced to live in unhygienic and unsafe conditions.
A project led by Professor Angelique Chettiparamb has resulted in an evidence-based strategic action plan accompanied by an urban vacant land inventory with the potential to improve the lives of thousands of people. Chettiparamb and her team developed partnerships with academics and organisations at international, national and local levels, to access current state of the art knowledge, and secure contacts required for rapid field studies to evaluate current issues in providing adequate rental housing for migrants in the city.
The strategic action plan to deliver rental housing for internal migrants in Kochi was formally adopted by the Local Government Council. Further partnerships led to the first ever rapid urban vacant land inventory carried out in a city of Kerala incorporating local academic/professional institutions.
This work has attracted interest of national and international development agencies with a view to formulating broader, city-wide planning strategies. Project partners were:
- Kochi Municipal Corporation
- The Centre for Heritage, Environment and Development (C-HED)
- The Centre for Migration and Inclusive Development (CMID)
- SCMS College of Architecture
Research Grant applications in May
- Raine Kwon – UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) – ‘Progressing the smart Integration of data in Transdisciplinary research Consortium Innovation Fund -2’ £6,636.
- Raine Kwon – British Academy – ‘Urban regeneration through local entrepreneurs and Startups: Case study of ‘Renovation School’ in Japan and Korea’. £9,920.
Research Environment
Departmental funding has been awarded for the conduct of three events in June/July, 2022. These are:
- Richard Nunes: Just Transitions Action Research Lab (JusTA) Launch: £600
- Claudia Murray and Angelique Chettiparamb: Community Land Trust and Migration (CLTM) - a non-academic and academic networking workshop £1,650 (£1000 funded by the Research Dean’s fund).
- Neil Crosby, Steven Devaney and Gianluca Mercato – What might prudent/long term value mean for the valuation profession? £4,496.
PhD students Conference Presentations
- Hua Fan: “Smart cities: A Panacea for Urban Air Pollution - Evidence from the world's leading smart cities”. 50th American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) National Conference, Washington DC, 3rd of June.
Postgraduate students’ fieldtrips
Students on various postgraduate programmes have been on field trips this month. The following one-week duration field trips took place:
- MSc Real Estate: Istanbul, Turkey.
- MSc Spatial Planning and Development: Lisbon, Portugal.
- MSc Rural Land & Business Management: Somerset and Devon.
- MSc Real Estate Finance: Paris, France.
Other Departmental News
The Blue Game for Msc Real Estate students:
Last week 28 teams of students from the MSc Real Estate Programme participated the 11th edition of the ‘Blue Game’. The game provides the students with strategy training in responsible real estate investment based on the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. The teams take on roles in the game such as investors, fund managers, banks, developers, government, and the central bank. The objective is to solve an actual business case based on the Australian property market by developing appropriate strategies of responsible investment and management in real estate. Teams apply the economic and behavioural concepts of game theory as a means of executing strategic moves to turn negative externalities into winning business propositions. The proposed investment and management solutions incorporate the dynamic interplay of competition and cooperation – delivering a better economic, environmental, social, and governance outcome.