Co-Investigator
ESRC Seminar Series: Collaborative Housing and Community Resilience
A six-seminar series bringing together six UK universities and the UK Cohousing Network to examine housing access, affordability, sharing economies, green technology, ecological citizenship, and community resilience.
Impact
Established a shared frame of reference for cohousing research terminology and concepts across UK academia, combining international expert presentations with visits to community housing schemes.
This ESRC-funded seminar series (2015–2016) brought together six UK universities: Lancaster, Leeds, LSE, Newcastle, Nottingham, and Sheffield, in partnership with the UK Cohousing Network to advance collaborative housing research and practice.
Across six seminars, the series examined themes including housing access and affordability, sharing economies, green technology, ecological citizenship, and community resilience. Each event combined academic presentations from international experts with practical visits to community-based housing schemes, open forums, and poster sessions.
A central aim was to establish a common frame of reference for terminology and concepts in cohousing research, bridging the gap between academic knowledge and grassroots housing practice.
Principal Investigator: Helen Jarvis (University of Newcastle) Co-Investigators: Paul Chatterton (Leeds), Fionn Stevenson (Sheffield), Melissa Fernandez (UEL) Funder: ESRC (ES/M002012/1) | Duration: 2015–2016 Project website: https://collaborativehousing.net/
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