Research Profile
Dr Bob Smith
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 76086
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74845
Address:Room 2.79, Glamorgan Building
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) 2(i), University of Sheffield Urban Studies, (1980)
PhD, University of Sheffield Town Planning, (1990)
Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing
Research Interests
These include housing policy (including work on housing policy in Wales under devolution), housing and regeneration, housing and neighbourhood management and processes of social inclusion/exclusion, housing needs and demand, and issues of housing governance.
Recent Research Projects
The Regeneration of Cardiff 1974-2005 (with John Punter, Alan Hooper and others), originally funded by Cardiff City Council.
Analysis of the South East Wales Housing Market (with others), on behalf of the South East Wales Regional Housing Forum.
Spiritual Capital: The role of faith-based organisations in Cardiff in civic society (with Rebecca Edwards).
Second Generation: The Impacts of Housing Stock Transfer in Urban Britain (with Hal Pawson, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University). This is an 18 month study, commencing in November 2006, which will look at post-1999 housing stock transfers across Britain, examining the extent to which they have delivered on "transfer promises" and their contribution to wider community regeneration.
Developing a framework for the future of housing education in Wales (with Pauline Card and others), on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government.
Research on the regeneration impacts of housing investment post council housing stock transfer (with Pauline Card, Kevin Morgan and others). At present this is unfunded research.
Selected Publications
Additional Information
An experienced teacher and researcher he has undertaken studies for UK government departments, the Welsh Government and National Assembly for Wales, the Housing Corporation, Tai Cymru / Housing for Wales, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Audit Commission, Shelter, Crisis, Welsh Consumer Council and individual local authorities and housing associations.
Bob’s research interests are in housing policy (including housing policy in Wales since devolution), housing needs and housing markets, housing and regeneration, the changing housing sector in the UK, and issues of housing governance and management. From 2004-2008 he was Director of the University’s Regeneration Institute.
In 2007-08 he was a member of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Ministerial Task and Finish Group on Affordable Housing in Wales (The Essex Review) and was a member of the external experts’ panel for the second National Housing Strategy for Wales published in April 2010. A corporate member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and a founder member of Welsh Housing Quarterly, he is also a board member of a Cardiff-based housing association.