Glen Bramley

Glen is one of Britain’s leading academics in housing and urban economics having been engaged in academic and applied policy research in this field since the mid-1970s. Glen has been Professor of Urban Studies at Heriot-Watt University since August 2002 and was Professor of Planning & Housing, Heriot-Watt University/Edinburgh College of Art from 1994-2002. He gained a PHD and held several academic positions at the former School for Advanced Urban Studies, University of Bristol. Prior to this Glen was an Economist with Shankland/Cox Partnership, Town Planning Consultancy working on the Lambeth Inner Area Study for the government.

Research Interests
Housing systems, economics and demography
Housing needs, affordability and access
Housing finance and affordable housing provision
Household formation and migration
The housing market, particularly the impact of planning regulation and local/neighbourhood impacts of policy interventions
Planning, land supply and infrastructure
Local government and services distribution and finance
Local environments in poor neighbourhoods; local income and wealth distributions
Public finance and economics, particularly local government services and the relative need of different local areas
Poverty, including housing-induced poverty, social exclusion, severe and complex need manifestations, and methodologies to investigate including conventional and new kinds of surveys, administrative data and data linkage.