Our people

Staff Interests
Rebecca Tunstall 

Rebecca Tunstall
Centre Director

+44 (0)1904 321475

  • social housing
  • neighbourhoods
  • inequality
Steve Wilcox 

Steve Wilcox
Editor, UK Housing Review

+44 (0)1904 321480
stevewpwilcox@aol.com

  • housing finance
  • housing needs
  • housing benefits and wider welfare policy
Mark Bevan 

Mark Bevan
Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321480
mark.bevan@york.ac.uk

  • housing in rural areas
  • the private rented sector
  • housing and older people
  • park homes
  • housing and biographical disruption
  • niche housing markets and the meaning of home
Joanne Bretherton 

Joanne Bretherton
Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321480
joanne.bretherton@york.ac.uk

  • homelessness and housing exclusion
  • social enterprise service models
  • gender-based (domestic) violence
  • negative area effects in relation to mixed communities
  • international comparisons with a particular interest in the Asia Pacific region and Japanese social and housing policy
Karen Croucher 

Karen Croucher
Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321480
karen.croucher@york.ac.uk 

  • housing and later life
  • lifetime neighbourhoods
  • extra care housing and retirement communities
  • end of life care
Janet Ford 

Janet Ford
Emeritus Professor


  • problematic aspects of owner occupation
  • mortgage arrears and possessions
  • changing relationship between the housing and labour markets
  • risk
Anwen Jones 

Anwen Jones
Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321480
anwen.jones@york.ac.uk

  • homelessness
  • rough sleeping and the prevention of homelessness
  • domestic violence
  • housing and ex-offenders
  • anti-social behaviour
  • home ownership
Nicholas Pleace 

Nicholas Pleace
Senior Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321480
nicholas.pleace@york.ac.uk

  • people facing multiple disadvantage and high support needs
  • housing support services
  • spatial social sorting
  • e-government, ICTs, data protection
  • social and welfare taxonomies 
Deborah Quilgars 

Deborah Quilgars
Senior Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321480
deborah.quilgars@york.ac.uk

  • housing, risk and safety nets, homelessness and support services
  • young people
  • European perspectives
David Rhodes 

David Rhodes
Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321483
david.rhodes@york.ac.uk

  • private rented housing
  • housing markets
  • homelessness
  • housing benefits
Julie Rugg 

Julie Rugg
Senior Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321484
julie.rugg@york.ac.uk

  • private renting
  • housing benefit
  • the contribution of the voluntary sector to the alleviation of homelessness
  • cemeteries research
 Alison Wallace thumb

Alison Wallace
Research Fellow

+44 (0)1904 321487
alison.wallace@york.ac.uk

  • low cost homeownership
  • housing markets
  • cultural-economy
  • anti-social behaviour
  • systematic review methodology
Beth Watts 

Beth Watts
PhD student

+44 (0)1904 321472
bw577@york.ac.uk

  • homelessness
  • political and moral philosophy and their applications in social policy
  • comparative social policy
  • qualitative comparative research methods
  • social policy in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland

Administrative staff

Staff Responsibilities
Jane Allen 

Jane Allen
Information and Dissemination Officer
pt Monday - Wednesday

+44 (0)1904 321486
jane.allen@york.ac.uk

  • CHP website and associate sites
  • computing issues: DCO
  • editorial assistance to the International Journal of Housing Policy
  • information and publishing
Atholynne Lonsdale 

Atholynne Lonsdale
Secretary

+44 (0)1904 321480
atholynne.lonsdale@york.ac.uk

  • PA to Centre Director
  • general administrative support
  • areas of finance
  • main administrator for the Housing Studies Association
  • publication sales
Nicola Moody 

Nicola Moody
Administrator for CHP
pt Wednesday-Friday

+44 (0)1904 321480
nicola.moody@york.ac.uk

  • budget preparation for research projects
  • project financial management
  • budget forecasting
  • Centre's first aider