The Centre for Housing Policy (CHP) at the University of York was established in 1990 with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick (Director of CHP) now leads a team of 12 research staff and three support staff. CHP’s research is supported through competitive tender, including work for government departments (including Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department of Health (DoH) and the Scottish Government), a wide range of voluntary sector and charitable organisations, as well as international bodies including the European Commission and United Nations Commission for Human Settlements. CHP also undertakes in-depth policy related academic research, supported by staff making unsolicited applications to research funding organisations such as the Economic and Social Research Council. In size, financial strength and reputation, CHP is now one of the leading housing research centres in Europe.
CHP’s work is grouped into eight themes:
- homelessness
- homeownership
- private rented sector
- social rented housing
- housing, health and support
- housing finance
- neighbourhoods
- housing and welfare systems
We have the following methodological specialisms:
- qualitative methods/analysis
- systematic review methodologies
- survey design and analysis
- secondary data analysis
- comparative research
- longitudinal methods
- socio-legal analysis
Please see our news index and research index for more details on our work. In addition, the Centre runs a series of seminars which are open to all.
Staff within the Centre play an active role in the Housing Studies Association and the Centre and its staff are also members of European Network of Housing Research. CHP is also the home of the peer-reviewed academic journal European Journal of Housing Policy, which is edited by Suzanne Fitzpatrick. The journal is relaunching in 2010 as the International Journal of Housing Policy.
The Department of Social Policy and Social Work
The Centre for Housing Policy is part of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York. A range of undergraduate and postgraduate/graduate courses are offered, as well as opportunities for doctoral research. CHP has one sister research unit within SPSW: the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU).
- Information on courses in Social Policy and Social Work
- About the Department of Social Policy and Social Work
- The Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU)
The Alcuin Collaboration
The Department of Social Policy and Social
Work is involved in the Alcuin Collaboration.
This is a network of academic departments
and research centres at the University of
York concerned with teaching, research and
consultancy in health and public policy.
Common themes for all its members include
education and training, the collection and
analysis of data as evidence for policy makers,
effective dissemination of research, and
the conduct of primary and secondary research.
The Alcuin Collaboration includes the Hull
York Medical School. CHP is also a founder
member of the Alcuin
Research Resource Centre (ARRC).
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