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Professor Rebecca Tunstall

Biography

Former Director of the Centre for Housing Policy
Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy

  • PhD Social Policy and Administration 1995-2000 (part-time) Department of Social Policy, LSE
  • MA in Urban Design 1993-94 Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University 
  • Diploma in Urban Design 1992-93 Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University; Passed with distinction

I have wide-ranging research interests and expertise across housing studies, social policy, and applied social research. My principal areas of work have been social housing, neighbourhoods, and inequality, which since 2001 have been pursued as a member of LSE’s ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and from 2003 as a fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.

This expertise has been recognised in numerous invitations to speak and to perform academic and policy advisory roles, for example for CLG and JRF. I have shared a platform with the Prime Minister and various other ministers, presented work to senior central government figures, given numerous media interviews, and spoken to a wide range of audiences including practioners, tenants’ groups and school children.

Career

For the past 15 years I have worked as team leader, team member and sole researcher on projects for clients including: Communities and Local Government (CLG), the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), the Nuffield Foundation, the Housing Corporation, the Homes and Communities Agency, the Tenant Services Authority, the National Housing Federation, the Scottish Government, individual social landlords and others.

I have been appointed to the Policy and Evidence Advisory Panel for the Social Mobility Commission, and I am on the board of the Campaign for Social Science. 

Professor Rebecca Tunstall

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Professor Rebecca Tunstall
Former Centre Director & Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy
Honorary Fellow