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* Promoting homeownership at the margins: the experience of low-cost homeownership purchasers in regeneration areas - Kim McKee
* The future of Arms Length Management Organisations: the uncertain fate of a social housing hybrid - Ian Cole and Ryan Powell
* How do we make prisons places of work and learning? - Del Roy Fletcher
* Review – The Spirit Level: why equality is better for everyone - Gary Craig
* Review – Sinking and Swimming: understanding Britain’s unmet needs - Karen Escott
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Wednesday 8 September 2010
News from CCHPR
New Director for Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research
The Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research is delighted to announce that Dr Peter Williams, formerly Deputy Director General of the Council for Mortgage Lenders and chair of the National Housing and Planning Advisory Unit, has been appointed to be the new Director following Professor Christine Whitehead’s retirement at the end of the year. The Centre, located in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. It currently employs 15 housing and planning researchers and support staff.
Peter Williams will take up his position on 1st January 2011. He said “I am delighted to succeed Prof. Christine Whitehead as Director of the CCHPR. There is an important research agenda to be addressed in housing and planning at present and this well established and prestigious research centre is uniquely placed to play a key role in formulating and assessing policy at both national and local levels.”
Deputy Director of the Centre, Sarah Monk, said ‘We are really excited by this appointment and while we will miss Christine as Director, we are all looking forward to working with Peter next year. As a self-financing research centre we hope that Peter will help us explore new areas of research and develop sources of funding so we can produce top quality research for at least another 20 years!.’
Ian Hodge, Head of the Department of Land Economy, said ‘ Peter, with his particular interests in housing finance and the interrelationship between housing and planning as well as his long term commitment to supporting the evidence base for policy and his previous experience as a Professor of Housing in Cardiff, running a research centre, brings exactly the mix of skills required to enable CCHPR’s continued development. We look forward to working with him’.
The Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research is delighted to announce that Dr Peter Williams, formerly Deputy Director General of the Council for Mortgage Lenders and chair of the National Housing and Planning Advisory Unit, has been appointed to be the new Director following Professor Christine Whitehead’s retirement at the end of the year. The Centre, located in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. It currently employs 15 housing and planning researchers and support staff.
Peter Williams will take up his position on 1st January 2011. He said “I am delighted to succeed Prof. Christine Whitehead as Director of the CCHPR. There is an important research agenda to be addressed in housing and planning at present and this well established and prestigious research centre is uniquely placed to play a key role in formulating and assessing policy at both national and local levels.”
Deputy Director of the Centre, Sarah Monk, said ‘We are really excited by this appointment and while we will miss Christine as Director, we are all looking forward to working with Peter next year. As a self-financing research centre we hope that Peter will help us explore new areas of research and develop sources of funding so we can produce top quality research for at least another 20 years!.’
Ian Hodge, Head of the Department of Land Economy, said ‘ Peter, with his particular interests in housing finance and the interrelationship between housing and planning as well as his long term commitment to supporting the evidence base for policy and his previous experience as a Professor of Housing in Cardiff, running a research centre, brings exactly the mix of skills required to enable CCHPR’s continued development. We look forward to working with him’.
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