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Competition for junior housing researchers opens for entries

A competition to find the junior housing researcher of the year is under way.

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Calling all junior #ukhousing researchers- the @Thinkhouseinfo Early Career Researcher's Prize is now open for entries #ukhousing

Find out how you can enter the @Thinkhouseinfo Early Career Researcher's Prize #ukhousing

Thinkhouse, a website that collates and critiques housing research and provides monthly research reviews for Inside Housing, is now looking for entries for its Early Career Researcher’s Prize.

The prize, which is in its second year and is supported by Inside Housing, aims to give researchers in the early stages of their career “an opportunity to showcase their work to a wide and influential audience”.

It is open to those with up to eight years’ research experience, with or without a PhD, and those working in non-academic as well as academic institutions.

Entries are encouraged from the voluntary sector, thinktanks, housing associations, local authorities and journalists.


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Those wanting to enter should submit a piece of research between 4,000 and 8,000 words in length. The panel will consider think pieces, papers reviewing existing evidence and policy analysis or investigative journalism. Journal articles or other papers already published or under review will be accepted.

Thinkhouse’s preference is for research pieces that “cover ways to increase the amount and quality of the UK’s housing stock and the related economic, social and community benefits of doing so” but those with other housing-related research pieces are advised to get in touch.

Papers must be emailed to info@thinkhouse.org.uk by the end of September 2019.

The winner will receive £500 and a year’s Inside Housing subscription. They will also have their award win reported by Inside Housing and their paper published on the Thinkhouse website.

Last year’s winner was Anya Martin, a 26-year-old research and public policy officer at Peabody, who impressed the judges by her use of existing data to challenge the notion that social housing is an inherent cause of worse outcomes than other tenures.

This year’s judging panel includes members of the Thinkhouse editorial panel; representatives from sponsors Altair, L&Q and Inside Housing; Ms Martin; and Stephen Aldridge, director of analysis and data at the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government.

What is Thinkhouse?

What is Thinkhouse?

Thinkhouse was formally launched in spring 2018, and aims to “provide a single location and summary of the best and most innovative research pieces, policy publications and case studies”.

It specifically looks at reports that propose ways to boost the amount and quality of housing and the economic, social and community issues of not doing this.

The Thinkhouse editorial panel highlights the ‘must-read’ reports, blogs about them and runs the annual Early Career Researcher’s Prize.

The panel includes current and former housing association chief executives, academics, lawyers, economists and consultants. It is chaired by Richard Hyde, chief executive of a business that sells construction hand tools.

Who is on the panel?

Richard Hyde

Chair of Editorial Panel, CEO of HYDE

Gemma Duggan

Head of Compliance and Performance at Extracare

Chris Walker

Economist

Brendan Sarsfield

CEO, Peabody

Mick Laverty

CEO, Extracare Charitable Trust

Martin Wheatley

Senior Fellow, Institute for Government,

Kerri Farnsworth

Founder & MD, Kerri Farnsworth Associates

Suzanne Benson

Head of Real Estate for the Manchester office of Trowers.

Burcu Borysik

Policy Manager at Revolving Doors Agency,

Ken Gibb

Professor in housing economics at the University of Glasgow, Director of CaCHE

Peter Williams

Departmental Fellow, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge

Brian Robson

Executive Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the Northern Housing Consortium

Francesca Albanese

Head of Research and Evaluation at Crisis

Jules Birch

Journalist and blogger

Susan Emmett

Head of Engagement for Homes England

Mark Farmer

Founder and CEO Cast Consultancy

Steve Moseley

Group Director of Governance, Strategy & Communications at L&Q

Jennifer Rolison

Head of marketing at Aquila Services Group

Philip Brown

Professor of Housing and Communities at the University of Huddersfield

Anya Martin

Senior researcher at the National Housing Federation

Emily Pumford

Policy & strategy advisor, Riverside

Anthony Breach

Analyst, Centre for Cities

Shahina Begum

Customer Insight Office, Peabody

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