HSA annouces the Valarie Karne Memorial Prize

The Housing Studies Association is pleased to announce the introduction of the Valerie Karne annual memorial prize for the best paper by an early career housing academic.
Valerie was a housing researcher of compassion and conviction. She believed in the power of research to challenge and change policy by exposing the injustices of life in urban society. She was also a passionate advocate of community engagement and action.
She took her doctorate at the University of Birmingham on housing for older people. After working as a research fellow at York University she returned to Birmingham, where she lectured until 1984. She then spent a decade as Professor of Environmental Health and Housing at Salford University, before taking up the position of Professor of Housing Studies at the Manchester University in 1994.
Valerie's interests were wide-ranging and her achievements many. One her most notable contributions was her joint authorship of Race, Class and State Housing (1987). Written with Jeff Henderson, this seminal work exposed the processes of institutional racism in public housing. Reviewing the book for Critical Social Policy in 1988, Norman Ginsberg recognised the work as "more comprehensive, sophisticated and perhaps radical in its implications than anything done before."
All papers submitted by an early career researcher will be considered for the prize, but particular preference will be given to papers sharing Valerie's broad interests:

• race and housing
• housing standards and conditions
• homelessness
• housing management and governance
• comparative housing researchT

The Prize
The prize is financed through a bequest made by Valerie. The money will support the professional production and dissemination of the winning paper. It will be hosted on the HSA website as part of a new Valerie Karn paper series and disseminated through the HSA’s networks.
Submission
Submissions are welcomed from all early career researchers, including: Masters students, PhD students, newly qualified postdoctoral researchers, and junior researchers working outside academia. Papers should be between 4,000 and 8,000 words in length and submitted in Word format to David Robinson (d.robinson@shu.ac.uk) by 30th September 2013.
All submissions will be reviewed by a panel drawn from the executive of the Housing Studies Association and chaired by David Robinson. The winner of the Valerie Karn Prize 2013 will be announced in the week beginning 21st October 2013.