Dr Michael Marshall (he/him)
School of Geography and Planning
Research Associate in Quantitative Analysis and Geographic Information Systems
Full contact details
School of Geography and Planning
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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I completed my PhD in the Urban Studies and Planning department at University of Sheffield in 2023. My thesis was on the financialisation of English housing associations and the implications for social housing supply. Following this I worked as a Research Associate in the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE). And began my current role in 2025. Prior to academia I worked in social housing.
- Research interests
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I am an interdisciplinary researcher with two interrelated strands to my research: housing and decarbonisation of the built environment. Topics of interest include quantifying and understanding housing need, the drivers of poor housing conditions and housing insecurity, the governance of social housing, and expediting the decarbonisation of building construction and maintenance. As an applied researcher I have a strong interest in methods, including the applications in the social sciences of quantitative methods, mixed methods, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). As a former practitioner I also have an interest in conducting research which is engaged with policy and practice, and I have been part of several research evaluations and evidence reviews commissioned by government and third-sector bodies.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Maintenance devalued: the role of financialisation and assetisation in producing pathways to disrepair. International Journal of Housing Policy. View this article in WRRO
- ‘Will there be money? Yes, but you’ll pay more for it’: variegated financialization in social housing. Housing Studies. View this article in WRRO
- Evaluating the effect of grant on affordable housing supply in England using a quasi-experiment. International Journal of Housing Policy. View this article in WRRO
- Institutional formation in tumultuous times: reforming English social housing regulation post-Grenfell. Critical Housing Analysis, 10(2), 58-69. View this article in WRRO
- Different conspiracy theories have different psychological and social determinants : comparison of three theories about the origins of the COVID-19 virus in a representative sample of the UK population. Frontiers in Political Science, 3. View this article in WRRO
Book chapters
- Housing and welfare in England, The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare (pp. 38-53). Routledge
Reports
- Implementing the Decent Homes Standard in the Private Rented Sector: Introducing the Non-Decent Index
- Affordable Housing Need in Scotland Post-2026 View this article in WRRO
- Transforming social housing through decarbonisation: The challenges and opportunities in decarbonising at scale View this article in WRRO
- Home improvement services in England: National Evaluation View this article in WRRO
- What older people want: a rapid evidence assessment on what older people want, and can afford, when it comes to their housing choices when looking to move View this article in WRRO
- Lessons from last time: a review of evidence on the first decent homes programme in the social and private rented sectors View this article in WRRO
- The unequal impacts of Covid-19 on global garment supply chains: evidence from Ethiopia, Honduras, India, and Myanmar View this article in WRRO
Preprints
- Revisiting housing and populism: the politics of wealth and housing discontent, Center for Open Science.
- Revisiting housing and populism: the politics of wealth and housing discontent, Center for Open Science.
- Maintenance devalued: the role of financialisation and assetisation in producing pathways to disrepair. International Journal of Housing Policy. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching interests
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- Quantitative Analysis
- GIS
- Housing