Dr Jenny Preece
School of Geography and Planning
Lecturer
+44 114 222 8130
Full contact details
School of Geography and Planning
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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I joined the department as a researcher in 2017, working with the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, an interdisciplinary research centre working on contemporary housing problems.
My PhD was in people's experiences of post-industrial neighbourhoods, which I completed at the Centre for Regional, Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University. Prior to my PhD I worked for several years in policy and research roles in the social housing sector in London. My undergraduate degree was in history, after which I completed a masters in public policy - then I moved into working directly in housing policy and practice...and this interest in housing policy has never left me!
I have carried out lots of different research projects in my time in USP, sometimes working in partnership with academic colleagues at other universities, and at other times in collaboration with non-academic organisations such as Mind Cymru and the Centre for Ageing Better.
I am a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board for Housing Studies journal and a peer reviewer for a range of journals in the field of housing and urban studies. I am also a Co-Investigator for the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE).
- Research interests
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My research focuses on understanding housing choices and aspirations, particularly in changing contexts and with relevance to issues of constraint and exclusion. I am interested in people's lived experiences of home, and how people experience change, whether in the dwelling itself or the wider neighbourhood. In the last few years my research has focused on understanding the lived experience of the building safety crisis or ‘cladding scandal’, working with leaseholders in England who are living with significant fire safety defects. I have worked to increase the impact of this work by carrying out additional research into, for example, people's experiences of living through building remediation.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Class, emotions and the affective politics of social inequality
Class, emotions and the affective politics of social inequality
, by Jay Emery, Ryan Powell and Lee Crookes (Eds), London, Sage (The Sociological Review Monograph Series), 2023, 204 pp., £10.00 (pbk), ISBN 9781529668773. Housing Studies, 39(2), 584-586.
- Urban rhythms in a small home: COVID-19 as a mechanism of exception. Urban Studies. View this article in WRRO
- Living through continuous displacement : resisting homeless identities and remaking precarious lives. Geoforum, 116, 140-148. View this article in WRRO
- Belonging in working class neighbourhoods: dis-identification, territorialisation and biographies of people and place. Urban Studies (Sage), 57(4), 827-843. View this article in WRRO
- The affordability of 'affordable' housing in England : conditionality and exclusion in a context of welfare reform. Housing Studies. View this article in WRRO
- A methodological quest for systematic literature mapping. The International Journal of Housing Policy. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding Changing Housing Aspirations: A review of the evidence. Housing Studies. View this article in WRRO
- “No-one would sleep if we didn’t have books!”: Understanding shared reading as family practice and family display. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 16(4), 363-377. View this article in WRRO
- Examining the Links between Parents' Relationships with Reading and Shared Reading with their Pre-School Children. International Journal of Educational Psychology, 7(2), 123-150. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding the barriers and motivations to shared reading with young children: The role of enjoyment and feedback. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. View this article in WRRO
- Immobility and insecure labour markets: An active response to precarious employment. Urban Studies (Sage). View this article in WRRO
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UNHOMING ,TRAUMA AND WAITING : ThePost‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
- New flawed consumers? Problem figuration, responsibility and identities in the English building safety crisis. Housing Studies, 1-21.
- Living in a small home: expectations, impression management, and compensatory practices. Housing Studies.
Chapters
- Ethnic inequalities in housing: exploring the policy response In Stephens M, Perry J, Williams P & Young G (Ed.), 2024 UK Housing Review (pp. 23-34). Coventry: Chartered Institute of Housing. View this article in WRRO
Book reviews
- Fitting into place?. Sociological Research Online, 17(3).
Reports
- Race equality in housing: a review of the policy approach in England, Scotland and Wales
- Past, present and future: Housing policy and poor-quality homes
- FORMS AND MECHANISMS OF EXCLUSION IN CONTEMPORARY HOUSING SYSTEMS: A SCOPING STUDY View this article in WRRO
- Class, emotions and the affective politics of social inequality
Class, emotions and the affective politics of social inequality
, by Jay Emery, Ryan Powell and Lee Crookes (Eds), London, Sage (The Sociological Review Monograph Series), 2023, 204 pp., £10.00 (pbk), ISBN 9781529668773. Housing Studies, 39(2), 584-586.
- Teaching interests
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I use my research to inform my teaching practice, particularly specialising in the teaching of contemporary housing issues. I am interested in the applied, policy applications of research, and methodologically I focus on teaching qualitative approaches.
- Teaching activities
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TRP108
TRP130
TRP335
TRP6211
UG and PGT dissertation supervision
PGR supervision
L1 Personal Tutor