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Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance (2014)
Journal Article
Scullion, L., Somerville, P., Brown, P., & Morris, G. (2015). Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance. Health and Social Care in the Community, 23(4), 419-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12159

This paper argues that the increasing international salience of homelessness can be partially explained by reference to the revanchist thesis (involving processes of coerced exclusion and abjection), but the situation on the ground is more complex. I... Read More about Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance.

Development of a social survey for the study of vibration annoyance in residential environments : good practice guidance (2014)
Journal Article
Whittle, N., Peris, E., Condie, J., Woodcock, J., Brown, P., Moorhouse, A., …Steele, A. (2015). Development of a social survey for the study of vibration annoyance in residential environments : good practice guidance. Applied Acoustics, 87, 83-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2014.06.015

This paper outlines good practice guidelines for developing a social survey to investigate public annoyance in relation to environmental vibration. Drawing on the development of international good practice guidelines and research into noise and vibra... Read More about Development of a social survey for the study of vibration annoyance in residential environments : good practice guidance.

Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size (2014)
Journal Article
Brown, P., Martin, P., & Scullion, L. (2014). Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size. People, Place and Policy, 8(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.0008.0001.0003

Within the political framework of the European Union (EU), there has been long standing recognition that the on-going exclusion of Roma represents a key challenge for human rights, justice and social inclusion agendas. By introducing a requirement fo... Read More about Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size.

Retrofitting social housing : reflections by tenants on adopting and living with retrofit technology (2014)
Journal Article
Brown, P., Swan, W., & Chahal, S. (2014). Retrofitting social housing : reflections by tenants on adopting and living with retrofit technology. Energy Efficiency, 7(4), 641-653. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-013-9245-3

Retrofit has been described as one of the major engineering challenges of the twenty-first century (Kelly 2009). However, the industry needs to look beyond regarding the problem as restricted to the physical upgrade of properties. Asset managers, eng... Read More about Retrofitting social housing : reflections by tenants on adopting and living with retrofit technology.