Part of a portfolio of work on Digital Poverty funded by the British Academy, this report by Dr Hannah Holmes, Dr Katy Karampour, and Dr Gemma Burgess reviews existing knowledge on the topic digital exclusion. It highlights the key drivers of digital exclusion, considers who is likely to experience...
Part of a portfolio of work on Digital Poverty funded by the British Academy, this report by Dr Hannah Holmes, Dr Katy Karampour, and Dr Gemma Burgess draws attention to the complex relationship between digital exclusion and housing inequalities. The report highlights a number of ways in which...
Delivering human-centred housing: understanding the role of post-occupancy evaluation and customer feedback in traditional and innovative social housebuilding in England
Construction Management and Economics have published a paper by Drs Sabina Maslova and Gemma Burgess. The paper looks at the post-occupancy evaluation mechanisms used by housing associations delivering homes with traditional and MMC approaches. It examines the current role played by POE in UK...
Healthy Communities: Place-based built environment interventions to reduce health inequalities by increasing physical activity
Our report Healthy Communities: Place-based built environment interventions to reduce health inequalities by increasing physical activity intends to inform the development of Places for People’s place-based interventions to reduce health inequalities and to develop evaluation metrics for measuring...
Digital exclusion and poverty in the UK: How structural inequality shapes experiences of getting online
Digital Geography and Society have published a paper by Drs Hannah Holmes and Gemma Burgess. The paper focuses on the complex relationship between digital exclusion and poverty, and examines how a range of spatial, material, and temporal factors related to experiences of poverty shape opportunities...
Smart city governance and the ethical dimension of smart city decision-making in Cambridge, UK
Dr Sabina Maslova presented findings from CCHPR's research into the ethics of smart city governance at the European Urban Research Association 2022 Conference in Milan, on 17 June 2022. Smart city governance and ethical decisionmaking_SM.pdf Smart city governance and ethical decisionmaking_SM.pdf
Pre-Manufactured Value: A critical examination of PMV as a performance evaluation metric for the adoption and use of modern methods of construction (roundtable)
Our roundtable discussion on 27 April 2022 provided an opportunity for MMC industry professionals to explore the role of PMV as a performance evaluation metric. Mark Farmer, the UK Government’s Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) Champion for Housing and founding director and CEO of Cast...
Insights into the use of modular housing in addressing homelessness: Report
Modular housing is one of the innovations increasingly used in the homelessness sector to provide temporary accommodation, but there is very limited evidence about the effectiveness of these models, the barriers and facilitators to set them up and operate them, and the experiences of people housed...
Insights into the use of modular housing in addressing homelessness: Launch presentation
Dr Katy Karampour's presentation at an online launch event hosted by the Centre for Homelessness Impact on 26 April 2022 provided an overview of the current level of modular and container housing provision in the UK. The session looked at the importance of robust evaluation in order to determine...
Insights into the use of modular and container temporary housing to address homelessness: HSA Conference
Dr Katy Karampour gave a presentation at the 2022 Housing Studies Association Conference in Sheffield on behalf of herself and Dr Gemma Burgess. The presentation looked at the increasing use of modular and container homes as temporary accommodation for people experienceing homelessness, and...
The relationship between housing inequality and digital exclusion in the UK
Dr Hannah Holmes gave a presentation at the 2022 Housing Studies Association Conference in Sheffield on behalf of herself and Dr Gemma Burgess. The presentation looked at how housing circumstances shape and impact people's experiences of digital exclusion.
Net zero ready new build housing: benefits and barriers to delivery
In the context of a government mandate to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and meet the UK’s legally-binding climate change targets, the Climate Change Committee and the Sixth Carbon Budget proposed that all new residential buildings should be zero carbon-ready from 2025. Our...
The Centre for Digital Built Britain has published a blog by CCHPR researchers, based on their recently published paper, The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge Programme, UK. The blog explores the crucial ethical issues faced by decisionmakers...
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance
Published in Urban Studies, The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK explores the ethical debate around Smart Cities. The authors present the case for extending the debate to include the ethical content which can be traced in decision-...
Modular housing for the homeless: CHIRN presentation
Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong and Richmond Ehwi presented their findings from the project at a launch event organised by CHIRN, the Cambridge Homelessness Impact and Research Network, on 2 February 2022.
Enablers for the adoption and use of BIM in main contractor companies in the UK
The journal Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management has published a paper authored by Drs Reyhaneh Shojaei, Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong and Gemma Burgess. The paper draws on data gathered from a series of interviews with professionals in strategic and management roles with construction...
