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Ken is a professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences in the subject area of Urban Studies. He is also Director of Policy Scotland, and co-director of What Works Scotland co-funded by ESRC and Scottish Government. He has been a full time member of staff at the University in various guises since 1989. He was an ESRC research fellow until his appointment as a lecturer in 1994. After becoming a senior lecturer in 1999 and a Reader in 2001, he became a professor in 2006. Ken was also Head of the Department of Urban Studies from 2005 to 2010 and associate dean of the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences in 2009-10. Ken is also the Director of Policy Scotland, the University hub for policy research and knowledge exchange.

Ken's research interests are focused on the economic, financial and policy dimensions of housing. He has carried out research for government departments, ESRC, Jospeh Rowntree Foundation, trade bodies, the private sector and international organisations like OECD. His current interests are on the financing and economics of social and affordable housing, and, the application of behavioural economics to housing.

Ken has been the managing editor of the Urban Studies journal and is a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation. He is immediate past president of RC43 (housing) of the International Sociological Association and is a former president of the European Real Estate Society. He sits on four editorial advisorial boards. He was a visiting professor to the University of Amsterdam in 2011. He has recently acted as advisor to the Scottish Parliament's Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee and has also worked for the Scottish Parliament's Welfare Reform Committee. Ken has given evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Finance Committee, Local Government Committee and the Social Security Committee (previously welfare reform), as well as the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster.

After a period on the national board of Sanctuary Housing Association, Ken is currently the Chair of Sanctuary Scotland Housing Association.

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Housing markets and economics
Urban housing systems and economies
social housing and housing policy
public policy

Selected recent research grants

Housing and Work Incentives (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

Evidence Review of the Impacts of UK Welfare Reform affecting Housing

What Works Scotland (ESRC/Scottish government) - co-director and CI (partnership with University of Edinburgh)

Administrative Data Research Centre Scotland (ESRC), co-investigator on housing and public engagement workstreams (led by Edinburgh University)

Risk, Reform and Resilience (Wheatley Group) £15,000

International Review of Financing Affordable Housing (Joseph Rowntree Foundation) with Duncan Maclennan (St Andrews) and Mark Stephens (Heriot Watt)

Reviewing Housing Benefit Reform Impacts on Social Tenants (Northern Ireland Housing Executive) With Newhaven Research and Chris Leishman (Heriot Watt)

Social Rent-setting in Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland Housing Executive) with Newhaven Research, Steve Wilcox (York), Allison Orr and Declan Redmond (UCD)

Housing and Neighbourhoods Monitor (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with Cecilia Wong, University of Manchester and Stanley McGreal, University of Ulster), 2008-2011

Current Research Students (PhD)

Jie Huang - REITs and affordable housing in China
Seemanti Ghosh - welfare analysis of aspirational poverty traps
Marjan Kloosterboer - urban renewal in Addis Abiba
Sarah Ward - Ayrshire & Arran Health Board: Asset-based approaches: improving local outcomes
Jane Cullingworth - The role of third sector interfaces within Community Planning Partnerships
Linda Christie - Collaborative Scottish Cities

Alternative contact address

Policy Scotland Office, Room 405
Adam Smith Building

Consulting and Advice

I was acting as an advisor to the Housing and Well-Being Commission, an 18-month Commission funded by Shelter Scotland.

I have considerable experience of consultancy and advisory work in the housing sphere, including commissions for Glasgow Housing Association, the Scottish Executive, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Welsh Government, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, DCLG, the World Bank, OECD, the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, various local authorities and private sector bodies.

Academic and Professional Body Memberships

Academician of Social Sciences
Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing
past president and board member of the European Real Estate Society.
past president of the International Scociological Association Research Committee 43 (Housing and the Built Environment)
past co-ordinator of the ENHR housing economics working group.

Editorial Boards

Housing, Theory and Society (Associtae Editor, Economics)
Journal of European Real Estate Research
Journal of Property Research
International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis

External Work

I am the Chair of Sanctuary Scotland Housing Association. I am also a shareholder in Mortherwell football club.

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Number of items: 96.

2017

Maclennan, D., Gibb, K., McNulty, D. and Comerford, M., (Eds.) (2017) The Scottish Economy: A Living Book. Series: Regions and cities. Routledge. ISBN 9781138960916 (In Press)

Maclennan, D., Gibb, K., McNulty, D., and Comerford, M. (2017) Introduction: pathways from the past and prospects for the future. In: Maclennan, D., Gibb, K., McNulty, D. and Comerford, M. (eds.) The Scottish Economy: A Living Book. Series: Regions and cities. Routledge. ISBN 9781138960916 (In Press)

2016

Milne, R. G., and Gibb, K. (2016) Using economic analysis to increase civic engagement. Contemporary Social Science, (doi:10.1080/21582041.2016.1223870) (Early Online Publication)

Gibb, K. (2016) Housing benefit: slow on the take-up? Contemporary Social Science, (doi:10.1080/21582041.2016.1156733) (Early Online Publication)

Gibb, K., and Christie, L. (2016) Local tax reform in Scotland: fiscal decentralization or political solution? In: Bailey, D. and Budd, L. (eds.) Devolution and the UK Economy. Rowman and Littlefield: London, pp. 57-78. ISBN 9781783486311

Gibb, K., McNulty, D., and McLaughlin, T. (2016) Risk and resilience in the Scottish social housing sector: ‘We’re all risk managers’. International Journal of Housing Policy, 16(4), pp. 435-457. (doi:10.1080/14616718.2016.1198085)

Gibb, K., Stephens, M., Reuschke, D., Wright, S., Besemer, K., and Sosenko, F. (2016) How Does Housing Affect Work Incentives for People in Poverty? Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Meen, G., Gibb, K., Leishman, C., and Nygaard, C.A. (2016) Housing Economics: A Historical Approach. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137472700 (In Press)

2015

Christie, L., and Gibb, K. (2015) A collaborative approach to event-led regeneration: the governance of legacy from the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Local Economy, 30(8), pp. 871-887. (doi:10.1177/0269094215603953)

Gibb, K., and Christie, L. (2015) International Literature Review for the Commission on Local Taxation. Discussion Paper. Commission on Local Tax Reform, Glasgow.

Gibb, K., and Bynner, C. (2015) 'Fractals', Community Planning and Placed-based Policy Geography in West Dunbartonshire. [Website]

Gibb, K. (2015) Housing policy in Scotland since devolution: divergence, crisis, integration and opportunity. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 23(1), pp. 19-42. (doi:10.1332/175982715X14229585605431)

Gibb, K., McNulty, D., and McLaughlin, T. (2015) Reform, Risk, Resilience: Social Housing in Scotland. Discussion Paper. Policy Scotland / Wheatley Group, Glasgow.

Gibb, K. (2015) The multiple policy failures of the UK bedroom tax. International Journal of Housing Policy, 15(2), pp. 148-166. (doi:10.1080/14616718.2014.992681)

Harding, A., Nevin, B., Gibb, K., and Headlam, N. (2015) Cities and Public Policy: A Review Paper. Working Paper. Government Office for Science, Foresight Project, London.

2014

MacLennan, D., McNulty, D., and Gibb, K. (2014) Scotland’s Place in a New Union: Urgent Questions for a Sustained Conversation. Working Paper. Policy Scotland, Glasgow.

Gibb, K., Osland, L., and Pryce, G. (2014) Describing inequalities in access to employment and the associated geography of wellbeing. Urban Studies, 51(3), pp. 596-613. (doi:10.1177/0042098013498283)

Aalbers, M. B., and Gibb, K. (2014) Housing and the right to the city: introduction to the special issue. International Journal of Housing Policy, 14(3), pp. 207-213. (doi:10.1080/14616718.2014.936179)

Gibb, K., and Marsh, A. (2014) Introduction: European housing markets, economics and finance – after the crisis. Journal of European Real Estate Research, 7(3), pp. 242-247. (doi:10.1108/JERER-09-2014-0033)

Gibb, K., and McNulty, D. (2014) Risk, resilience and effectiveness in the non-profit sector: the case of housing associations. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 1(4), pp. 349-364. (doi:10.1108/JOEPP-09-2014-0059)

Gibb, K., Sprigings, N., Wright, S., and McNulty, D. (2014) Evidence Review of the Impacts of UK Welfare Reform Affecting Housing. Project Report. Scottish Government Housing and Regeneration Division, Glasgow.

2013

Scanlon, K., Whitehead, C., Williams, P., and Gibb, K. (2013) Building the Rented Sector in Scotland. Project Report. Homes for Scotland, Edinburgh.

Gibb, K. (2013) Market signals, planning and social housing. Town Planning Review, 84(1), pp. 63-80. (doi:10.3828/tpr.2013.4)

Gibb, K., Leishman, C., Young, G., and O'Sullivan, A. (2013) The Impact of the Housing Benefit Reforms on the Social Rented Sector: A Study for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Department for Social Development. Project Report. NIHE/DSD, Belfast.

Gibb, K., Maclennan, D., and Stephens, M. (2013) Innovative Financing of Affordable Housing International and UK Perspectives. Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, UK.

Gibb, K. (2013) The ‘Bedroom Tax’ in Scotland: A Report on the Housing Benefit Under-Occupation Charge to the Welfare Reform Committee of the Scottish Parliament. Project Report. Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.

Young, G., Orr, A., Gibb, K., and Redmond, D. (2013) Review of Social Rent-setting in Northern Ireland. Project Report. Northern Ireland Housing Executive/Department of Social Development, Belfast.

2012

Clapham, D.F., Clark, W.A.V. and Gibb, K., (Eds.) (2012) Handbook of Housing Studies. SAGE: London, UK. ISBN 9781847874306

Gibb, K. (2012) Delivering affordable housing in the UK. In: Jones, C., White, M. and Dunse, N. (eds.) The Challenges of the Housing Economy: An International Perspective. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470672334 (doi:10.1002/9781118280829)

Gibb, K., and Stephens, M. (2012) Should housing benefit be devolved to Scotland? Fraser of Allander Economic Commentary, 35(3), pp. 67-71.

Chen, Y., Gibb, K., Leishman, C., and Wright, R. (2012) The Impact of Population Ageing on House Prices: A Micro-simulation Approach. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 59(5), pp. 523-542. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9485.2012.00593.x)

Field, A., McDowall, R., Trouten, K., and Gibb, K. (2012) Innovating Housing Delivery. Project Report. Homes for Scotland, Edinburgh.

Gibb, K. (2012) Behavioural economics and housing. In: Smith, S.J. (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of Housing and Home. Elsevier Science. ISBN 9780080471631

Gibb, K. (2012) Economics of social housing. In: Smith, S.J. (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of Housing and Home. Elsevier Science. ISBN 9780080471631

Gibb, K. (2012) Institutional economics. In: Clark, W., Gibb, K. and Clapham, D. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies. SAGE: London. ISBN 9781847874306

Gibb, K. (2012) Is Scottish housing policy diverging from policy in England? The complexity of devolution in practice. Housing Finance International, 26(4), pp. 21-26.

Gibb, K., O'Sullivan, A., and Young, G. (2012) Analysing the Belfast housing market: learning lessons from extreme volatility. Town Planning Review, 83(4), pp. 407-430.

Gibb, K., and Pryce, G. (2012) New directions in housing economics: Introduction. Journal of Property Research, 29(4), pp. 271-279. (doi:10.1080/09599916.2012.731720)

Gibb, K., and Stephens, M. (2012) Devolving Housing Benefit: A Discussion Paper. Discussion Paper. Chartered Institute of Housing (Scotland), Edinburgh, UK.

O'Sullivan, A., and Gibb, K. (2012) Housing taxation and the economic benefits of home ownership. Housing Studies, 27(2), pp. 267-279. (doi:10.1080/02673037.2012.649470)

Young, G., O'Sullivan, A., Redmond, D., Blair, N., Cave, S., and Gibb, K. (2012) Crossing Borders. Project Report. Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Belfast, UK.

2011

Marsh, A. and Gibb, K., (Eds.) (2011) Housing Economics. Series: Sage library of economics. Sage: London, UK. ISBN 9781849200189

Gibb, K. (2011) After council housing: Britain's new social landlords. Urban Studies, 48(13), pp. 2911-2913. (doi:10.1177/0042098011417149) [Book Review]

Gibb, K. (2011) Delivering new affordable housing in the age of austerity: housing policy in Scotland. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 4(4), pp. 357-368. (doi:10.1108/17538271111172157)

Gibb, K., and Leishman, C. (2011) Delivering Affordable Housing in Troubled Times: Scotland National Report. Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, UK.

Marsh, A., and Gibb, K. (2011) Introduction. In: Marsh, A. and Gibb, K. (eds.) Housing Economics. Series: Sage library of economics. Sage: London, UK. ISBN 9781849200189

Marsh, A., and Gibb, K. (2011) Response to comments: Fundamentals are, well, fundamental. Housing, Theory and Society, 28(3), pp. 292-299. (doi:10.1080/14036096.2011.599178)

Marsh, A., and Gibb, K. (2011) Uncertainty, expectations and behavioural aspects of housing market choice. Housing, Theory and Society, 28(3), pp. 215-235. (doi:10.1080/14036096.2011.599182)

Wong, C., Gibb, K., McGreal, S., Webb, B., Leishman, C., Blair, N., Hinks, S., and MacIntyre, S. (2011) Housing and Neighbourhoods Monitor 2011: Fragility and Recovery. Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, UK.

2010

Gibb, K., and O'Sullivan, A. (2010) Exploring loan finance guarantees to support new affordable housing in Scotland. In: O'Sullivan, A. (ed.) Investing in Affordable Housing - A Radical Rethink. Chartered Institute of housing: Edinburgh, pp. 13-19.

Gibb, K., and O'Sullivan, A. (2010) Housing-led regeneration and the local impacts of the credit crunch. Local Economy, 25(2), pp. 94-107. (doi:10.1080/02690941003741085)

Hall, D., and Gibb, K. (2010) Increasing Supply within the Social Rented Sector. Discussion Paper. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, UK.

Young, G., O'Sullivan, A., and Gibb, K. (2010) Northern Ireland Housing Market Areas. Project Report. Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Belfast.

2009

Wong, C., Gibb, K., McGreal, S., Hincks, S., Kingston, R., Leishman, C., Brown, L., and Blair, N. (2009) Housing and Neighbourhoods Monitor UK-wide Report. Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Gibb, K. (2009) Housing studies and the role of economic theory: an (applied) disciplinary perspective. Housing, Theory and Society, 26(1), pp. 26-40.

Gibb, K., and Trebeck, K. (2009) Different roads? Evidence about the changing provision of English social housing. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 2(4), pp. 373-391. (doi:10.1108/17538270910992818)

2008

O'Sullivan, A., and Gibb, K. (2008) The credit crunch and the Scottish housing system. Discussion Paper. Chartered Institute of Housing.

Gibb, K. (2008) Should the hedge funds sell short on home ownership? Housing Scotland, Decemb, p. 7.

Gibb, K., O'Sullivan, A., and Glossop, C. (2008) Home Economics: How Housing Shapes City Economies. Project Report. Centre for Cities, London, UK.

Leishman, C., Gibb, K., Meen, G., O'Sullivan, T., Young, G., Chen, Y., Orr, A., and Wright, R. (2008) Scottish Model of Housing Supply and Affordability: Final Report. Scottish Government: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9870755973637

Nygaard, C., Berry, M., and Gibb, K. (2008) The political economy of social housing reform: a framework for considering decentralised ownership, management and service delivery in Australia. Urban Policy and Research, 26(1), pp. 5-21. (doi:10.1080/08111140701540778)

2007

Gibb, K., and Whitehead, C. (2007) Towards the more Effective Use of Housing Subsidy: Mobilising and Targeting Resources. Housing Studies, 22(2),

2006

Gibb, K. (2006) Introduction to housing themed issue. Public Finance and Management, 6(1),

Gibb, K., and Nygaard, C. (2006) Transfers, Contracts and Regulation: A New Institutional Economics Perspectives on the Changing Provision of Social Housing in Britain. Housing Studies, 21, pp. 827-852.

Gibb, K., and MacLennan, D. (2006) Changing social housing: economic system issues. Public Finance and Management, 6(1), pp. 88-121.

Montezuma, J., and Gibb, K. (2006) Residential property as an Institutional Asset: The Swiss and Dutch Cases. Journal of Property Research, 23, pp. 323-346.

Pryce, G., and Gibb, K. (2006) Submarket Dynamics of Time to Sale. Real Estate Economics, 34(3), pp. 377-412.

2005

Adair, A., Berry, J., McGreal, S., Hutchison, N., Watkins, C., and Gibb, K. (2005) Investment Performance within Urban Regeneration Locations. Journal of Property, Investment and Finance, 23(1), pp. 7-21.

Adair, A., Berry, J., Gibb, K., Hutchison, N., McGreal, S., and Watkins, C. (2005) Urban regeneration, property indices and market performance. In: Adams, D., Watkins, C. and White, M. (eds.) Planning, Public Policy and Property Markets. Series: Real estate issues (Oxford, England). Blackwell, pp. 148-166. ISBN 9781405124300

Gibb, K., and Nygaard, C. (2005) The Impact of Buy to Let Residential Investment on Local Housing Markets: Evidence from Glasgow, Scotland. European Journal of Housing Research, 5, pp. 301-326.

Gibb, K., Kintrea, K., Nygaard, A., and Flint, J. (2005) Review of the Effectiveness and Impact of Transferring Scottish Homes Houses into Community Ownership. Project Report. Communities Scotland, Edinburgh.

Gibb, K., Kintrea, K., Nygaard, C., and Flint, J. (2005) Review of the Effectiveness and Impact of Transferring Scottish Homes Houses into Community Ownership. Project Report. Scottish Executive, Edinburgh.

Wood, G., Forbes, M., and Gibb, K. (2005) Direct subsidies and housing affordability in Australian private rental markets. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 23, pp. 759-783.

2004

Gibb, K. (2004) At the Margins of Devolution: Fiscal Autonomy, Housing Benefit and Scottish Housing Policy. Scottish Affairs(48), pp. 111-132.

Gibb, K. (2004) Policy priorities for property and land in Central Scotland. Journal of Property Research, 21(3), pp. 255-277.

Gibb, K. (2004) Regeneration Pays. Scotregen, 28(Summer), p. 3.

Reid, M., and Gibb, K. (2004) "Capacity building" in the third sector and the use of independent consultants: evidence from Scotland. In: 6th International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, 11-14 July 2004,

Turok, I. et al. (2004) Sources of city prosperity and cohesion: the case of Glasgow and Edinburgh. In: Boddy, M. and Parkinson, M. (eds.) City Matters: Competitiveness, Cohesion and Urban Governance. Policy Press: Bristol, pp. 13-31. ISBN 9781861344441

2003

Adair, A., Berry, J., McGreal, W., Hutchison, N., Watkins, C., and Gibb, K. (2003) Urban Regeneration and Property Investment Performance. Journal of Property Research, 20(4), pp. 371-386.

Donnison, D., and Stephens, M. (2003) The political economy of housing research. In: O'Sullivan, A. and Gibb, K. (eds.) Housing Economics and Public Policy. Series: Real estate issues (Oxford, England). Blackwell Science, pp. 248-267. ISBN 0632064617

Gibb, K. (2003) Transferring Glasgow's Council Housing: Financial, Urban and Housing Policy Implications. European Journal of Housing Policy, 3(1), pp. 89-114.

Gibb, K., and Hoesli, M. (2003) Developments in Urban Housing and Property Markets. Urban Studies Review Issue, 40(5-6), pp. 887-896.

More, A., Findlay, J., Gibb, K., Kasparov, D., and Mills, C. (2003) Determined Differences: Rent Structures in Scottish Social Housing. Series: http://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b2109501. Scottish Executive: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780755935208

Turok, I., Bailey, N., Atkinson, R., Bramley, G., Docherty, I., Gibb, K., Goodlad, R., Hastings, A., Kintrea, K., Kirk, K., Leibovitz, J., Lever, B., Morgan, J., Paddison, R., and Sterling, R. (2003) Twin Track Cities? Linking Prosperity and Cohesion in Glasgow and Edinburgh. University of Glasgow: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 1903825059

2002

Gibb, K. (2002) Urban housing models. In: O'Sullivan, A. and Gibb, K. (eds.) Housing Economics and Public Policy. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9780632064618

Gibb, K. (2002) Trends and Change in Social Housing Finance and Provision within the European Union. Housing Studies, 17(2), pp. 325-336.

Gibb, K., Mackay, D., and White, M. (2002) The property market and its role in shaping urban economic competitiveness: a selective review of literature and evidence. In: Begg, I. (ed.) Urban Competitiveness: Policies for Dynamic Cities. Policy Press: Bristol. ISBN 1861343582

2001

Meen, G., Gibb, K., and Mackay, D. (2001) The Economic Role of New Housing. Other. National House Building Council, Amersham.

Gibb, K., and Kearns, A. (2001) Low Demand in the Owner-Occupied Sector: Issues for Lenders. Housing Finance, 49(Februa), pp. 47-52.

Gibb, K. (2001) Helping with housing costs? Unravelling the political economy of personal subsidy. In: Cowan, D.S. and Marsh, A. (eds.) Two Steps Forward: Housing Policy into the New Millennium. Policy Press: Bristol.

Gibb, K., and Mackay, D. (2001) The Demand for Housing in Scotland: New Estimates from the Scottish House Condition Survey. Series: Discussion paper (University of Glasgow. Economics and Finance of Property and Housing Research Group) (4). Economics and Finance of Property and Housing Research Group, University of Glasgow. ISBN 1871769949

2000

Kearns, A., Gibb, K., and Mackay, D. (2000) Area deprivation in Scotland: a new assessment. Urban Studies, 37(9), pp. 1535-1559. (doi:10.1080/00420980020080251)

Bailey, N., Findlay, J., and Gibb, K. (2000) Deregulation and the Structure of Urban Rental Housing Markets. Economics and Finance of Housing and Property. Discussion Paper. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

White, M., Mackay, D., and Gibb, K. (2000) A comparative analysis of Scottish property rents. Journal of Property Investment and Finance, 18(3), pp. 332-351. (doi:10.1108/14635780010338326)

1998

Gibb, K., Kearns, A., Keoghan, M., Mackay, D., and Turok, I. (1998) Revising the Scottish Area Deprivation Index. Other. Scottish Office Central Research Unit, Edinburgh.

1996

Kintrea, K., Gibb, K., Hermansen, C., Keoghan, M., and Munro, M. (1996) An Evaluation Of GRO Grants for Owner Occupation: A Report to the Scottish Office and Scottish Homes. Project Report. Scottish Office Central Research Unit, Edinburgh.

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