Alison Wallace

Background

About Alison Wallace

I am now an Emeritus Professor from 1 Oct 2024. Formerly a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Housing and have been part of the Centre for Housing Policy since 2001, working on a range of projects relating to the sustainability of marginal homeownership, shared ownership housing, private landlords and housing markets. I have worked in Northern Ireland on housing inequalities and the fallout of the financial crisis. I am currently developing an interest in the use of new digital technologies in housing, from risk profiling in housing access and the use of Internet of Things technologies in people’s homes. I work on policy-driven impactful research and have contributed to policy debates around shared ownership, Northern Ireland’s housing markets and sustainable homeownership. Previously a social housing practitioner with many years experience, I completed my doctoral research into the cultural economy of local housing markets in 2007. I served as the Secretary of the Housing Studies Association and was a Committee member between 2011 and 2014. I am a Trustee of the Housing Studies Charitable Trust since 2019, a Churchill Fellow - for work on homeownership education in the US - since 2016 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. A link to my publicaitons and research profile is here. https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/alison-wallace