Professor Duncan Maclennan

Professor in Public Policy (Public Policy)

telephone: 01413304081
email: Duncan.Maclennan@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

Duncan Maclennan is an applied economist with interests in cities, neighbourhoods, infrastructure and housing. He is currently Professor of Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, Professor of Strategic Urban Management and Finance at the University of St Andrews and a Professorial Research Fellow in Urban Economics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

His current research is concerned with economic drivers and consequences of metropolitan investment strategies for infrastructure and housing and of the fiscal and spending autonomies in sub-national levels of government. He has recently completed work on infrastructure in Scotland, city deals and devolution in the UK, as a Knowledge Leader for the ESRC, and completed two reports for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute on productivity effects of housing outcomes and on the role of public housing stock transfers in creating successful non-profits. He plays a lead role in the cross-national collaborative housing policy project on Shaping Futures and is currently undertaking research on the presenting and modelling the economic impacts of housing investment for the Government of New South Wales and the New South Wales Housing Federation. Recently published academic work includes research on housing transitions in China, the role of housing and inequality if Piketty’s model, housing impacts on entrepreneurship, modelling regional house price cycles and city deals in the UK.

Duncan was Director of the ESRC’s Centre for Housing Research and Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow from 1983-1997, Director of the ESRC Cities, Competitiveness and Cohesion Programme from 1996-99, and Economic Adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation from 1989-99 and Directed their research programmes on Housing and the Macro-economy and on Neighbourhood Regeneration in the 1990’s. From 1999-2008 Duncan worked in government. He was Special Adviser to the First Ministers of Scotland from 1999-2003, then a Chief Economist in the State Government of Victoria and Chief Economist in the Federal Department for Infrastructure and Cities in the Federal Government of Canada.

Duncan returned to Scotland in 2009 to a Chair of Economic Geography at the University of St Andrews and was Head of the School of Geography and Geosciences from 2011-14. He has recently served on the RICS Commissions for Housing in the UK and Scotland, on the Northern Housing Commission, The Fairer Fife Commission and is currently and Economic Commissioner for the Glasgow Region City Deal. He now lives in Canada and Scotland.

Professor Duncan Maclennan CBE FRSE FAcSS FRSA RICS RTPI CIH

Publications

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Number of items: 25.

2018

Maclennan, D., Gibb, K., McNulty, D. and Comerford, M. (2018) 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)

2017

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

Gibb, K., McNulty, D., Maclennan, D. and Comerford, M. (2017) The Scottish economy: Background and context. In: Gibb, K., Maclennan, D., McNulty, D. and Comerford, M. (eds.) The Scottish Economy: A Living Book. Series: Regions and cities. Routledge: Abingdon ; New York, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781138960916

Gibb, K., O’Sullivan, A. and MacLennan, D. (2017) Housing. In: Gibb, K., Maclennan, D., McNulty, D. and Comerford, M. (eds.) The Scottish Economy: A Living Book. Series: Regions and cities. Routledge: Abingdon ; New York, pp. 215-230. ISBN 9781138960916

Maclennan, D. and Docherty, I. (2017) Infrastructure and the Scottish economy. In: Gibb, K., Maclennan, D., McNulty, D. and Comerford, M. (eds.) The Scottish Economy: A Living Book. Routledge: Abingdon ; New York, pp. 262-279. ISBN 9781138960916

Maclennan, D., Waite, D. and Muscatelli, A. (2017) Cities in the Scottish economy: patterns, policies and potentials. In: Gibb, K., Maclennan, D., McNulty, D. and Comerford, M. (eds.) The Scottish Economy: A Living Book. Routledge: Abingdon ; New York, pp. 88-103. ISBN 9781138960916

Maclennan, D. and Miao, J. (2017) Housing and capital in the 21st Century. Housing, Theory and Society, 34(2), pp. 127-145. (doi:10.1080/14036096.2017.1293378)

2016

Miao, J. T. and Maclennan, D. (2016) Exploring the ‘middle ground’ between state and market: the example of China. Housing Studies, 32(1), pp. 73-94. (doi:10.1080/02673037.2016.1181723)

MacLennan, D., Miao, J. and Moran, C. (2016) Fully smart cities, knowledge and learning. In: Orr, K., Nutley, S., Russell, S., Bain, R., Hacking, B. and Moran, C. (eds.) Knowledge and Practice in Business and Organisations. Series: Routledge advances in organizational learning and knowledge management. Routledge, pp. 201-211. ISBN 9781138940857

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.

Azad Chowdhury, R., Gibb, K., Marsh, A. and Maclennan, D. (2014) Regional house price cycles in the UK, 1978-2012: a Markov switching VAR. Journal of European Real Estate Research, 7(3), pp. 345-366. (doi:10.1108/JERER-02-2014-0014)

Maclennan, D., Miao, J. T., Lutero, E., Young, G. and O'Sullivan, T. (2014) Global Affordable Housing Report: BRICS Plus Mortar. Project Report. RICS, London.

2013

Waite, D., Maclennan, D. and O'Sullivan, T. (2013) Emerging city policies: devolution, deals and disorder. Local Economy, 28(7-8), pp. 770-785. (doi:10.1177/0269094213500122)

van Ham, M., Manley, D., Bailey, N., Simpson, L. and MacLennan, D. (Eds.) (2013) Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics: New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research. Springer: Dordrecht. ISBN 9789400748538

Bailey, N., Barnes, H., Livingston, M. and Maclennan, D. (2013) Understanding neighbourhood population dynamics for neighbourhood effects research: A review of recent evidence and data source developments. In: van Ham, M., Manley, D., Bailey, N., Simpson, L. and Maclennan, D. (eds.) Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics: New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 23-42. ISBN 9789400748538 (doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4854-5_2)

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

MacLennan, D. and O'Sullivan, A. (2013) Localism, devolution and housing policies. Housing Studies, 28(4), pp. 599-615. (doi:10.1080/02673037.2013.760028)

Manley, D., van Ham, M., Bailey, N., Simpson, L. and Maclennan, D. (2013) Neighbourhood effects or neighbourhood-based problems? A policy context. In: Manley, D., van Ham, M., Bailey, N., Simpson, L. and Maclennan, D. (eds.) Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood-Based Problems? A Policy Context. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 1-23. ISBN 9789400766952 (doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6695-2_1)

van Ham, M., Manley, D., Bailey, N., Simpson, L. and Maclennan, D. (2013) Understanding neighbourhood dynamics: new insights for neighbourhood effects research. In: van Ham, M., Manley, D., Bailey, N., Simpson, L. and Maclennan, D. (eds.) Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics: New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research. Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9789400748538 (doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4854-5_1)

2012

van Ham, M., Manley, D., Bailey, N., Simpson, L. and Maclennan, D. (2012) Neighbourhood effects research: new perspectives. In: van Ham, M., Manley, D., Bailey, N., Simpson, L. and Maclennan, D. (eds.) Neighbourhood effects research: new perspectives. Springer, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9789400723085

2011

Maclennan, D., Muellbauer, J. and Stephens, M. (2011) Asymmetries in housing and financial market institutions and EMU. In: Marsh, A. and Gibb, K. (eds.) Housing Economics. Series: SAGE library of economics, 2. Sage: London, pp. 1-38. ISBN 9781849200189

Maclennan, D. and Stephens, M. (2011) Section one: affordable housing and housing affordability: introduction. Housing Studies, 26(7-8), pp. 971-973. (doi:10.1080/02673037.2011.621289)

2006

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

2001

MacLennan, D., Muellbauer, J. and Stephens, M. (2001) Asymmetries inhousing and financial market institutions and EMU'. In: Boyfield, K. and Mather, G. (eds.) Britain's Unsolved Housing Dilemma. European Policy Forum. ISBN 9781903850053