Dr Richard Goulding
Management School
Lecturer in Accounting
+44 114 222 2184
Full contact details
Management School
C082
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
- Profile
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Dr Richard Goulding joined Sheffield University Management School as a lecturer in December 2023. Prior to that he was a research associate on the Centripetal Cities project, also based in the School.
Richard’s research interests lie in the interaction between finance, social reproduction and urban space, exploring how these combine to shape housing geographies. His PhD, submitted in 2017, analysed financialisation’s impact on social housing regulation. Richard’s other roles included the Urban Institute’s Housing Futures project, and exploring the interaction between housing, race and debt with colleagues at the Universities of Nottingham and Manchester.
Richard has an interdisciplinary background. His undergraduate and Masters degrees were based in Politics at the University of Manchester and his PhD was based in Sheffield’s School of Law. Before academia he volunteered with asylum and refugee charities and was a freelance journalist for publications including Red Pepper magazine.
- Qualifications
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- PhD - University of Sheffield
- MA Human Rights - University of Manchester
- BA Economics and Social Studies - University of Manchester
- Research interests
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Richard's current research interests include:
- Using “follow the money” techniques to analyse the connections between financial networks and urban space.
- Exploring the instabilities and frictions generated within the financialisation of housing and social care, and the implications for tenants and residents.
- Developing a relational comparative perspective for analysing state capitalist investment in real estate, and how these investments are materialised through urban geo-politics and geo-economics.
- Drawing on qualitative methodologies to explore gentrification, displacement and anti-racist approaches to housing.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Tranforming social housing into an asset class: REITs and the financialization of supported housing in England. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. View this article in WRRO
- When the Abu Dhabi United Group came to town: constructing an organisational fix for state capitalism through the Manchester Life partnership. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. View this article in WRRO
- From homes to assets: transcalar territorial networks and the financialization of build to rent in Greater Manchester. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(4), 828-849. View this article in WRRO
- Actually existing racial capitalism: financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations. Geography Compass.
- Walking the financialized city: confronting capitalist urbanization through mobile popular education. Community Development Journal, 56(1), 161-179. View this article in WRRO
Reports
- Manchester offshored : a public interest report on the Manchester Life partnership between Manchester City Council + The Abu Dhabi United Group View this article in WRRO
Preprints
- Tranforming social housing into an asset class: REITs and the financialization of supported housing in England. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching interests
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Richard's teaching interests are shaped by his research and aim to situate accounting and finance in their social context while equipping students with practical accounting skills. This includes the analysis of case studies of outsourcing and real estate companies and the use of time and space in financial reporting.
- Teaching activities
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Richard teaches on the following modules:
- MGT329 Case Studies in Accounting and Consultancy
- MGT225 Intermediate Financial Accounting