Submission of Abstracts

***ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 30 JUNE***

Details of what is required:

All delegates seeking to present a paper at the conference must submit an abstract  (300 words max, title, authors and affiliations, contact person email and phone number, key words) and do so by 31 May 2009.   All delegates submitting a paper will be informed as soon as possible whether or not their paper is being accepted.

The final paper must be presented at least two weeks in advance of the conference and all papers will have discussants.

All accepted papers and abstracts will be placed on a password protected conference website, by submitting your abstract you agree to this.

The conference welcomes papers on the following themes:

• Multi-disciplinary accounts of how the crisis came about.
• The new sociology of housing markets.
• Housing’s role in the macro-economy, housing wealth and prices.
• Home ownership after the crunch.
• Behavioural science, housing markets and policy for home ownership.
• Housing supply responses: developers, land markets, the brown field agenda.
• Planning system responses.
• How is the crisis affecting housing in CEE countries?
• Personal and household strategies in the housing downturn.
• Implications of the crash for area regeneration.
• The sustainability agenda – its pursuit in a housing recession.
• Financial sector responses: lenders, institutions, insurance, regulation.
• Housing, social inequalities and class reproduction.
• The urban impacts of market and housing system restructuring
• The effects on inequalities between places and neighbourhoods
• Comparative analysis of housing crises over time and/or between countries
• Comparative policy and practice innovations and lessons.
• Different counter-cyclical funding mechanisms in a recession
• Gentrification in the new market context

Although priority will be given to papers relating to the conference theme, we also welcome any research papers on housing from a social science perspective.

Where to send the abstracts and full papers:

 By Post:

or

By E-mail: T.Wright@lbss.gla.ac.uk 

Last updated:  5 March 2009