Dr Jenny Preece
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Research Fellow
+44 114 222 8130
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Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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I have worked in academic research environments for a number of years, completing my PhD at the Centre for Regional, Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University in 2015.
This research focused on the role of work in people’s experiences of residential mobility and immobility in working-class neighbourhoods. I have since worked at the University of Sheffield on an ESRC-funded project to understand the barriers to reading between parents and young children, focusing on family practices in low-income areas.
I have largely specialised in qualitative research exploring everyday lives, but my academic background cuts across a number of disciplines including history, human geography and sociology. I have previously worked in housing, policy, and research roles in the social housing sector, and maintain a long-term interest in social and affordable housing policy.
I am a Research Associate at the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, where I work across a number of projects to produce robust evidence to positively impact housing policy for all sections of society.
- Research interests
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I am interested in understanding people’s experiences of housing and neighbourhood, especially in places which have been seen through official lenses as ‘disadvantaged’.
This intersects with a number of other areas, particularly employment and labour markets. I am also interested in understanding how changes in contemporary labour markets towards less secure, low-paid work, relates to people’s housing experiences and trajectories.
I have drawn on a range of class-based theories in my work, in addition to using theories of belonging to conceptualise the role of place and relationships with others in daily life.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- 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
- 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.
Book reviews
- Fitting into place?. Sociological Research Online, 17(3).
Reports
- 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
- Urban rhythms in a small home: COVID-19 as a mechanism of exception. Urban Studies. View this article in WRRO