Dr Alice Earley

Research Associate (Urban Studies & Social Policy)

Biography

Dr Alice Earley is a Research Associate at the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) in the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy at the University of Glasgow. Prior to this, she was a Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, a Tutor in Urban Studies, Public Policy and Qualitative Research Methods and a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow.

She has an interdisciplinary background in urban studies, public and urban policy, planning and geography. Before returning to study for her MRes and PhD at the University of Glasgow, she worked for several years in economic development, regeneration and public policy research and consultancy in both Scotland and England.

She holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Glasgow, entitled Community enterprises, community assets and processes of urban regeneration and gentrification; an MRes in Urban Research, also from the University of Glasgow; an MSc in Urban Regeneration from the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL; and an MA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Edinburgh. 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

Research interests

Alice's research interests span across the following themes:

Debates about the interrelations between regeneration and gentrification;
Neighbourhood and housing inequalities and their relations to structural inequalities;
Social and community enterprise and its relationship to urban and public policy;
Community ownership and management of assets;
Urban governance and the changing relationships between the public, community/ voluntary and private sectors, including the role of partnerships in the policy process; and
Debates about how to address structural inequalities and their manifestation at the local level.

Research groups

Place & built environment
Just Cities & Societies
Urban Transformations & Transitions

Publications

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Number of items: 48.

2026

Livingstone, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2272-5523, Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, Ganguli, Rupa, O'Brien, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X and Troy, Laurence (2026) Institutional Investment in Build to Rent Housing: Policies, Incentives and Contributions in the UK and Australia. Housing Matters: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?, Glasgow, Scotland, 02-03 Sep 2026.

Livingstone, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2272-5523, Ganguli, Rupa, O'Brien, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X, Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X and Troy, Laurence (2026) Institutional investment landscapes of build-to-rent in Australia and the United Kingdom. Journal of Property Investment and Finance, (doi: 10.1108/JPIF-11-2025-0176) (Early Online Publication)

Hastings, Annette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9174-0677, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X, Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X and Fleming, Jocelyne (2026) In parallel or in dialogue? Recent homelessness and domestic abuse policy development in Scotland. International Journal on Homelessness, 6(2), pp. 1-25. (doi: 10.5206/ijoh.2026.2.22919)

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, Ganguli, Rupa, Livingstone, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2272-5523, O'Brien, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X and Troy, Laurence (2026) Institutional Investment in Build to Rent Housing: Policies, Incentives and Contributions in the UK and Australia. European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Conference, Milan, Italy, 28 June - 02 July 2027. (Accepted for Publication)

Norris, Michelle, Stephens, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8068-7329, O'Brien, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X, O'Hara, Lucy, Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, Lawson, Julie, Beveridge, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-7083, James, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188 and Gibb, Ken ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249 (2026) EqualHouse report: D5.1 Affordable Housing Review. Project Report. EqualHouse.

O'Brien, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X, Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X and Gibb, Ken ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249 (2026) D5.1 Affordable Housing Review: Tax and Regulation. Project Report. EqualHouse.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2026) Communities and Urban Regeneration in the UK: Community Enterprise, Community Control and Gentrification. 16th Annual Livable Cities Conference: Critiquing the Urban Renaissance, Manchester, UK, 17-19 June 2026. (Accepted for Publication)

Gibb, Ken ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249, Watson, Andrew, Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X and James, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188 (2026) More Homes Scotland and the Development of a New Housing Agency for Scotland - A Project for Shelter Scotland. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Gibb, Ken ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249, Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, James, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188 and Watson, Andrew (2026) More Homes Scotland: Debating a New Housing Agency. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2026) Achieving Regeneration without Gentrification? Festival of Place: Social Impact 2027, Online, 01-02 Feb 2027. (Accepted for Publication)

O'Brien, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X, Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, O'Hara, Lucy and Lawson, Julie (2026) Work Package 5: Land Policy Instruments for the Provision of Social and Affordable Housing. Project Report. EqualHouse.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, Marsh, Alex and Gibb, Ken ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249 (2026) The policy and politics of improving standards in the English private rented sector. Political Quarterly, 97(1), pp. 83-92. (doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.13572)

2025

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, Marsh, Alex and Gibb, Ken ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249 (2025) The Policy and Politics of Improving Standards in the English Private Rented Sector. Northern Housing Consortium: Mayoral Strategic Authorities Network – Private Rented Sector Workshop, 2025.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, Ganguli, Rupa, Livingstone, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2272-5523, O'Brien, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X and Troy, Laurence (2025) Institutional Investment in Build to Rent: Policies, Incentives and Contributions in the Australian and the UK housing markets. IJHP/CaCHE Symposium: Reflections and Developments in Housing Research: What’s Next?, Glasgow, Scotland, Sep 2025.

Norris, Michelle, O’Hara, Lucy, Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X and Stephens, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8068-7329 (2025) Financing Social Rented Housing in Europe Report for EqualHouse Work package 5: Inclusive and Affordable Housing Policy Review. Documentation. EqualHouse.

Marsh, Alex, Gibb, Ken ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249, Christie, Linda and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2025) The Value of Housing: Building a Stable Foundation: How Homes Drive Health, Opportunity, Prosperity and Equality. Documentation. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2025) Achieving urban regeneration without gentrification? Community enterprises and community assets in the UK. Journal of Urban Affairs, 47(4), pp. 1125-1148. (doi: 10.1080/07352166.2023.2229459)

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2025) The Policy and Politics of Improving Standards in the English Private Rented Sector. Australasian Housing Research Conference, Sydney, Australia, 19-21 February 2025.

2024

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2024) Achieving Urban Regeneration without Gentrification? Community Enterprises and Community Assets in the UK. Seminar. Gran Sasso Science Institute, 2024, L'Aquila, Italy, 17 Oct 2024.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2024) Achieving Urban Regeneration without Gentrification? Community Enterprises and Community Assets in the UK. 52nd International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York, USA, 24-27 Apr 2024.

Gibb, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249, Young, G. and Earley, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2024) Responding to Scottish Housing to 2040: Developing Credible Policy Proposals to Support the Affordable Supply Programme. Housing Studies Association Annual Conference 2024, Sheffield, UK, 15-17 Apr 2024 (in-person); 15-26 Apr 2024 (online).

Gibb, Ken ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249, Marsh, Alex, Orr, David and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2024) Homes for All: A Vision for England’s Housing System. Documentation. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE), Glasgow.

Gibb, Ken ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249, Young, Gillian and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2024) Sustainable Housing Policy in Scotland: Re-Booting the Affordable Housing Supply Programme. Other. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Glasgow.

2023

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2023) Community Enterprises, Community Assets and Processes of Urban Regeneration and Gentrification in Tumultuous Times of Crisis. UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2023, Glasgow, UK, 4-6 Sept 2023.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, James, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188, Stephens, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8068-7329 and Sakalasuriya, Maheshika (2023) The Contested Politics of Residential Space. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Hastings, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9174-0677, Mackenzie, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X, Earley, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X and Fleming, J. (2023) In Parallel or in Dialogue? Recent Housing and Domestic Abuse Policy Change in Scotland. Housing Studies Association Annual Conference 2023, Sheffield, UK, 29- 31 Mar 2023.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, James, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188, Stephens, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8068-7329 and Sakalasuriya, Maheshika (2023) The Contested Politics of Residential Space. Housing Studies Association Conference 2023, Sheffield, 29-31 March 2023.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2023) Community Enterprises, Community Assets and Processes of Urban Regeneration and Gentrification in Tumultuous Times. Housing Studies Association Annual Conference 2023, Sheffield, UK, 29- 31 March 2023.

2022

Stephens, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8068-7329, O'Brien, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2022) Resilience in the housing system: Market institutions from the global financial crisis to COVID-19. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Hastings, Annette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9174-0677, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2022) Domestic Abuse and Housing: Policy in Focus Since the COVID-19 Pandemic. Documentation. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2022) Community Enterprises, Community Assets and Processes of Urban Regeneration and Gentrification in Tumultuous Times. Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2022, Newcastle, 30 August 2022.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2022) Community Enterprises, Community Assets and Processes of Urban Regeneration and Gentrification in Extraordinary Times. People, Place and Policy Conference, Breaking down barriers: Increasing Inclusion Across Society, Sheffield, 6 July 2022.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2022) Community Enterprise, Community Assets and Regeneration. [Audio]

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2022) Exploring the Role of Community Enterprises and their Assets in Urban Regeneration and Gentrification: Bristol Case Study Findings. BS3 Community Development, Dine & Learn Event, Bristol, 13 June 2022.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2022) PhD Research Findings and Recommendations: Community Enterprises, Community Assets and Processes of Regeneration and Gentrification. PhD Research Findings and Recommendations: Community enterprises, Community Assets and Processes of Regeneration and Gentrification, presentation for Power to Change, Online, 28 Apr 2022.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2022) Balancing Structure and Agency when Analysing and Writing Up Research About Place-based Community Organisations. Neighbourhoods, Welfare and Wellbeing Research Group, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, 22 April 2022.

2021

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2021) Exploring the role of Community Enterprises and their Community Assets in Processes of Urban Regeneration and Gentrification. Socially Just Planning Doctoral Network Seminar, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London, 13 December 2021.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2021) Reflecting on the PhD Experience. Urban Studies PhD Symposium, University of Glasgow, 22 April 2022.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2021) Using and Approaching Theory in Doctoral Research. Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Planning Theory Seminar, 09 November 2021.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2021) Housing Systems, their Institutions and their Resilience. Documentation. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE), Glasgow.

Hastings, Annette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9174-0677, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2021) Domestic Abuse and Housing: Connections and Disconnections in the Pre-Covid 19 Policy World. Housing Studies Association Annual Conference, Online, 15 April 2021.

Stephens, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8068-7329, O'Brien, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2021) Resilience in the housing system: The mortgage and housebuilding industries from the global financial crisis to Covid-19. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Hastings, Annette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9174-0677, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2021) Domestic Abuse and Housing: Connections and Disconnections in the Pre-Covid-19 Policy World. Documentation. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

2020

Gibb, Kenneth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249, Foye, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7880-2714, Stephens, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8068-7329 and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2020) Improving Opportunities: How to Support Social Housing Tenants into Sustainable Employment – Report to the APPG on Housing and Social Mobility. Documentation. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE), Glasgow.

2019

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2019) Exploring the Role of Community Enterprises and their Assets in Regeneration/ Gentrification: Preliminary Findings, Glasgow Case Study. Community Central Hall AGM, Glasgow, 30 October 2019.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2019) Space Means You Can Do Amazing Things!’: An Exploration of the Role of an Asset-managing Community Enterprise Within Regeneration and Gentrification. Royal Geographical Society Conference, Housing and Gentrification: Austerity, Adaptation and Shared Space, London, August 2019.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2019) Exploring the role of Community Enterprises and their Assets in Gentrifying/gentrified Neighbourhoods: Preliminary Findings. People, Place and Policy Conference: Social and Spatial Inequalities, Sheffield, July 2019.

2018

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2018) What Role do Asset-managing Community Enterprises Play Within Processes of Regeneration and Gentrification?: A Scottish Case Study. City+ Conference: Justice City & Inclusive Urbanism, 2018.

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Number of items: 48.

Articles

Research Reports or Papers

Stephens, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8068-7329, O'Brien, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2021) Resilience in the housing system: The mortgage and housebuilding industries from the global financial crisis to Covid-19. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Hastings, Annette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9174-0677, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2021) Domestic Abuse and Housing: Connections and Disconnections in the Pre-Covid-19 Policy World. Documentation. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Conference or Workshop Item

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, Ganguli, Rupa, Livingstone, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2272-5523, O'Brien, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X and Troy, Laurence (2025) Institutional Investment in Build to Rent: Policies, Incentives and Contributions in the Australian and the UK housing markets. IJHP/CaCHE Symposium: Reflections and Developments in Housing Research: What’s Next?, Glasgow, Scotland, Sep 2025.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2024) Achieving Urban Regeneration without Gentrification? Community Enterprises and Community Assets in the UK. 52nd International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York, USA, 24-27 Apr 2024.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X, James, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188, Stephens, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8068-7329 and Sakalasuriya, Maheshika (2023) The Contested Politics of Residential Space. Housing Studies Association Conference 2023, Sheffield, 29-31 March 2023.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2023) Community Enterprises, Community Assets and Processes of Urban Regeneration and Gentrification in Tumultuous Times. Housing Studies Association Annual Conference 2023, Sheffield, UK, 29- 31 March 2023.

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2021) Reflecting on the PhD Experience. Urban Studies PhD Symposium, University of Glasgow, 22 April 2022.

Hastings, Annette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9174-0677, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X and Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2021) Domestic Abuse and Housing: Connections and Disconnections in the Pre-Covid 19 Policy World. Housing Studies Association Annual Conference, Online, 15 April 2021.

Audio

Earley, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750X (2022) Community Enterprise, Community Assets and Regeneration. [Audio]

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Supervision

Hamilton, Rory
Advancing Democratic Localism in Scotland: assessing the impact of Community Wealth Building, Place-based Regeneration and the Green New Deal

Teaching

At the University of Glasgow, I have taught on and/ or marked a variety of social, public and urban policy, housing and city planning courses, as either a Graduate Teaching Assistant or Postgraduate Tutor:

Undergraduate

Social and Public Policy 1A: Foundations of Welfare (PUBPOL1010)
Social and Public Policy 1B: Understanding Glasgow in a Globalised World (PUBPOL1011)
Social and Public Policy 2B: Policy, Politics and Power (PUBPOL2011)
Remaking Cities in a Global Age: Dilemmas of Urban Policy (PUBPOL4034)
Dissertation in Social and Public Policy (PUBPOL4001P)

Postgraduate

Evidence, Evaluation and Policy (URBAN5083)
Understanding Public Policy (URBAN5093)
Governance and Markets (URBAN5085)
Researching Public Policy (URBAN5135)
Housing Policy Contrasts across a Devolved UK (URBAN5129)
Spatial Planning Strategies (URBAN5046)
REPR Dissertation (URBAN5054p)
Public Policy Dissertation (URBAN5080p)

I also worked as Programme Tutor for the MSc in Public Policy and Management (2020-21).

At the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, I provided guest lectures for the following courses during my time as a Research Fellow (2021-22):

Implementing Regeneration Projects (BPLN0064)
Urban Regeneration: Urban Problems and Problematics (BPLN0065)
Participatory Urban Planning Project (BPLN0049)

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