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Dr Hannah Holmes featured in BBC News article

26 January 2023

A recent BBC News article highlighted Leeds City Council’s efforts to help people get access to the internet in the midst of concerns that increasing numbers of people could become digitally excluded as a result of the cost of living crisis. Dr Hannah Holmes spoke to the BBC about the relationship between poverty and...

New paper published by Digital Geography and Society

18 July 2022

A paper by Hannah Holmes and Gemma Burgess has been published in the journal Digital Geography and Society. Drawing on findings from the New Horizons project, the authors look at the role that 'offline' experiences of poverty play in shaping digital exclusion: Digital exclusion and poverty in the UK: How structural...

CCHPR join TAPPI 2 as their Evaluation and Shared Learning Partner

6 July 2022

CCHPR are delighted to be joining TAPPI 2 as Evaluation and Shared Learning Partner. Here's what our Director Dr Gemma Burgess has to say about the project: 'This collaborative research has significant potential for real world impact as the TAPPI principles are translated from theory into practice. Housing, care and health...

Join our team!

4 July 2022

We're looking for an experienced administrator to join our team. More details here: Research Centre Administrator (Part-time) | Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research . The closing date is 30 July 2022, and applications welcome through www.jobs.cam.ac.uk .

Royal visit for modular homes in Cambridge

27 June 2022

We're delighted to see that on 23 June 2022, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the Jimmy's modular homes projec t in central Cambridge. The couple were shown around the site and spoke with residents of the mods.

Looking Beyond the Law: a new blog from the Centre for Digital Built Britain

30 May 2022

Looking Beyond the Law: How Ethics Must Play a Pivotal Role in the Development of Smart Cities is a new blog from the Centre for Digital Built Britain and is based on our recent paper published by Urban Studies.

Our latest newsletter is now available

12 May 2022

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Land Economy's research comes out ahead in REF 2021

12 May 2022

Land Economy has come out on top in the latest Research Excellence Framework, according to the Times Higher Education 's rankings 67% of the work in the Land Economy's joint submission with Architecture was rated as 'world leading', the best in the country in the relevant field and ahead of the Cambridge average of 62%...

Demarginalising’ a territorially stigmatised neighbourhood?

10 May 2022

Hannah Holmes's paper has just been published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. See what she has to say about the governance networks that shape the decison-making processes around territorial stigma and gentrification, taking the example of Middlehaven, Middlesborough, UK.

Benefits and barriers to net zero ready new build housing

3 May 2022

Places for People's latest short video highlights the findings of our research through a series of short interviews with industry experts. To read more, and to view the presentations given at the launch event, visit the project page here .