UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)

The UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is a consortium of 13 partners led by the University of Glasgow.

The centre is a multidisciplinary partnership between academia, housing policy and practice. Over the course of the five-year programme (2017-2022), CaCHE researchers will produce evidence and new research which will contribute to tackling the UK’s housing problems at a national, devolved, regional, and local level.

The Centre focuses on seven key areas:

the impact of housing on the economy
understanding housing markets
housing choice; housing poverty
neighbourhood design
the impact on housing as a result of multi-level governance
homelessness.

CaCHE is configured as a ‘hub and spoke’ model, active in all parts of the UK, with a genuine commitment to the co-creation of knowledge and research priorities. Regional knowledge exchange hubs have been established, which bring together key stakeholders from across the housing sector to determine what the centre’s research priorities should be.

Wales Hub

The Wales Hub is led by Dr Peter Mackie and Dr Bob Smith and consists of around 25 key stakeholders from across the housing sector. The primary role of the hub is to identify research priorities and also to organise meetings and events, playing a key role in supporting knowledge exchange and dissemination of wider CaCHE activities across the UK.

Consortium members

The main consortium members are:

University of Glasgow
University of Sheffield
University of Bristol
Cardiff University
Ulster University
University of Reading
Sheffield Hallam University
University of St Andrews
Heriot-Watt University
National Institute of Social and Economic Research
Chartered Institute of Housing
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Royal Town Planning Institute.

The consortium has a lengthy list of institutional and individual collaborators at regional and national level and our activity will be supported in kind and direct contributions from additional partners including:

Crisis
The Wheatley Group
NatCen
Shelter
Rightmove.

There are also specific project plans with four complementary Economic and Social Research Council investments: Urban Big Data Centre, What Works Scotland, Public Policy Institute for Wales, and the ADRC Scotland, and will seek to collaborate with others including the What Works Centre for Wellbeing.

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