- Department: Social Policy and Social Work
- Module co-ordinator: Prof. Nicholas Pleace
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: M
- Academic year of delivery: 2021-22
The Housing and Social Justice (HSJ) module explores the role of housing policy and housing markets in relation to broader social policy. By studying HSJ, students will understand the key arguments surrounding the role of housing as a fundamentally important element in delivering effective interventions to address inequalities in opportunity, health and quality of life.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Autumn Term 2021-22 |
The goal of the module is to enable students to have a clear understanding of evidence, theory and debate around Housing and Social Justice, and to think critically about the strength of the evidence base, current theory, policy interventions and the quality of debates about Housing and Social Justice within academia and in public life. By the end of the module, students will be able to:
The Housing and Social Justice module is designed to present students with real-world policy challenges and the realities of what can be a complex, but at the same time limited, evidence base. Alongside delivering a thorough grounding in the nature of the relationships between housing and social justice, the Housing and Social Justice module also engages students with critical analysis of social and housing policy.
Students studying Housing and Social Justice will be provided with:
The Housing and Social Justice module is designed develop an understanding of what is meant by adequate housing within the wider framework of human rights and how an absence of adequate housing may negatively influence social justice in a society. The Housing and Social Justice module focuses on how life chances, health and social integration may be undermined by inadequate housing. Following the introduction to these concepts, each successive unit is designed to give students a thorough grounding in the policy issues in Housing and Social Justice. The module encourages critical thinking throughout and the final two units are focused on interpretation and analysis of the material covered by earlier sessions. The module is structured as follows:
In addition to reading the online authored material, students will:
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Essay 3000 words |
N/A | 100 |
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Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Essay 3000 words |
N/A | 100 |
The lead marker (the module tutor) will include comments about the content, structure, and evidence used etc. to provide you with constructive information that will enable you to improve on future work. The feedback a tutor can offer can be invaluable to your studies, so it is important you read this carefully
We aim to return your marked work to you within one month of its submission.
Feedback will be given in three ways:
(1) Comments within the actual text will highlight specific points and examples that the marker wants to draw to your attention.
(2) The marking criteria will be highlighted to show how your assignment has been rated against those criteria. This will enable you to calibrate your performance against a consistent scale, and therefore to aim to improve in specific areas.
(3) Finally the marker will provide a narrative summary in which the main points will be set out and any major areas for improvement highlighted.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has supported and conducted extensive research on housing, the relationships between poverty, housing and social justice and large body of work on homelessness. All their reports and summaries of reports are available at https://www.jrf.org.uk/housing
The National Housing Federation (NHF) also undertakes research and reviews on housing and social justice. http://www.housing.org.uk/resource-library/
The European Observatory on Homelessness conducts research on homelessness in Europe and is home to the European Journal of Homelessness. http://www.feantsaresearch.org/
The social geographer Danny Dorling writes extensively on the relationships between housing and social justice. Freely accessible material can be found online at: http://www.dannydorling.org
Key journals focusing on housing and social justice include: