EARLY EQUAL HOUSE

Felix Böhmer is a PhD candidate in the Department for Geography and Tourism at the KU Leuven. His research focuses on housing financialisation and the political economy of housing. He is a part of Work Package 4 for EqualHouse, concerning macro level influences on housing inequality. His analysis centers housing system trajectories in Europe and the ways that larger patterns of housing commodification shape housing inequality. He studied political science and sociology in Halle and Berlin, Germany. He lives in Belgium.

A list of his publications can be found under https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3593-1005

Hyojin is a gender and labour market social scientist and an international and interdisciplinary scholar with a background in comparative social policy. She is currently working as post-doctoral researcher for EqualHouse at the Department of Sociology, Tilburg University (NL). Her research mainly focuses on various gendered precariousness experiences, especially in the labour market, and the role of institutional contexts (e.g., social policy, norms) surrounding them. She was the winner of the Transfer Young Scholar Award in 2021 and ESPAnet/JESP Doctoral Researcher Prize in 2022, and the awarded papers are published in Transfer and Journal of European Social Policy.

Hyojin’s website can also be found here:https://sites.google.com/view/hyojinseo/home

Emiline Elangovan is a PhD candidate at Chalmers University of Technology’s department of Architecture and Civil Engineering. An architect by training, Emiline researches how affordable and climate-neutral renovations can tackle energy poverty and unsustainable housing as part of the Equal House project.

Erwin is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of Sociology at Tilburg University, interested in welfare state politics and socio-economic inequalities

Lucy is a research assistant at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at UCD. Her research interests focus on housing policy,  particularly on social housing, and homelessness policies in Ireland. She holds a BA in Sociology and Social Policy, and a Msc in Applied Social Research.

Dr Alice Earley is a Research Associate at CaCHE, based at the University of Glasgow. She is an interdisciplinary urban researcher who holds a PhD in Urban Studies and MRes in Urban Research from the University of Glasgow, an MSc in Urban Regeneration from University College London and an MA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Edinburgh. Alice’s research interests include the relationship between regeneration and gentrification, housing and inequalities, the role of social and community enterprise within different policy agendas, and community asset ownership and management. She completed her ESRC-funded PhD in Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow in 2020. The thesis explored the role of community-based social enterprises, and specifically, their community-managed assets, in regeneration and gentrification over time in England and Scotland. At CaCHE, Alice has worked on a range of projects about housing and inequality, including EqualHouse, where she is leading the literature review for Work Package 5. Prior to starting her role as a Research Associate in November 2022, Alice was a BSP Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London; a Tutor in Urban Studies, Public Policy and Qualitative Methods at the University of Glasgow; and a Research Assistant at CaCHE. Prior to starting her PhD, Alice worked in public policy, regeneration and economic development research and consultancy in both London and Glasgow. While studying for her PhD, Alice also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Social and Public Policy and completed an internship in Public Service Reform at the Scottish Government.

Publications

A list of recent publications can be found here:   https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:511b19e3-5689-41d2-9bdd-092e3eeea1f0

Dora Welker is a Project Officer at FEANTSA, working on the Equal House project analysing the scale and dynamics of housing inequality across European countries. She completed her PhD in Urban Studies at Heriot Watt University’s Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research (United Kingdom) with a research focus on gender-based violence and homelessness.

Research outputs:

A list of publications can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1huZytFMMl5evA58I_xwBS4308mMngksI0vzlhP-XWc8/edit?usp=sharing

Andrea Van der Velden is a PhD candidate at the Division of Geography and Tourism at KU Leuven, working on Work Package 6 of the Equal House project. Her research explores the potential of socially innovative housing models to address housing inequalities in a sustainable and inclusive way. She holds a BSc in Geography and an MSc in Sustainable Development from KU Leuven.