Profile |
I was awarded an MA in Politics from the University of Glasgow in 1994. Whilst continuing my studies at Glasgow, I lectured part-time in HM Prison, Saughton, Edinburgh before gaining an MPhil in Urban Policy in 1998.
I became a part-time Research Associate on the ESRC-funded Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, within the Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh and also joined the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow as a part-time Research Assistant. I continued in both roles until 2000 when I was appointed as a full-time Research Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies and then Lecturer in Housing Studies in 2004.
I moved to Sheffield Hallam University in 2005, where I took up a post as Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research. I became a Principal Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam in 2006 and was appointed as Professor of Housing and Urban Governance in 2007.
In October 2011 I was appointed as a Professor in the Department.
I am Co-Executive Managing Editor of the Housing Studies journal. I was a member of the REF2014 sub-panel 16 and I am a member of sub-panel C13 for REF2021. I was formerly a Trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation and a member of the Housing Studies Association Executive Committee.
I am currently Faculty Director of Research and Innovation for the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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Research |
The common theme to all my research has been urban governance, citizenship and social justice. Major threads of this include crime and anti-social behaviour policy, specialist interventions within the most vulnerable households, housing in neighbourhoods policy and evaluation and social cohesion – particularly ethnic and religious identity, social class and culture.
Current and Recent Research Projects
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Teaching |
My teaching combines social theory with up-to-date empirical research evidence and a policy focus. My primary teaching focus is on the history and development of urban places and housing policy and management.
PhD Supervision
I’m primary supervisor to the following PhD students:
- John Erskine, The informal economy in Yorkshire coalfield communities
- Philippa Hughes, Community land trusts
- Ruth Lucas, House price affordability and its impact on family formation choices amongst the graduate sector
- Martha Mingay, Community land trusts and the housing crisis
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Publications |
Edited Books
Journal Articles
- Preece J, Crawford J, McKee K, Flint J & Robinson D (2019) Understanding Changing Housing Aspirations: A review of the evidence. Housing Studies. View this article in WRRO
- Flint J (2018) Encounters with the centaur state: advanced urban marginality and the practices and ethics of welfare sanctions regimes. Urban Studies. View this article in White Rose Research Online.
- Fletcher D & Flint J (2018) Welfare conditionality and social marginality: the folly of the tutelary state? Critical Social Policy. View this article in White Rose Research Online.
- Flint J, McNeill J, Batty E & Fletcher D (2016) Gamers or victims of the system? Welfare reform, cynical manipulation and vulnerability. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. View this article in White Rose Research Online
- Ball E, Batty E & Flint J (2016) Intensive Family Intervention and the Problem Figuration of ‘Troubled Families’. Social Policy and Society, 15(02), 263-274. View this article in White Rose Research Online
- Crawford J & Flint J (2015) Rational Fictions and Imaginary Systems: Cynical Ideology and the Problem Figuration and Practise of Public Housing. Housing Studies, 30(5), 792-807. View this article in White Rose Research Online
- Flint J (2015) Housing and the Realignment of Urban Socio-Spatial Contracts. Housing, Theory and Society, 32(1), 39-53. View this article in White Rose Research Online
- Flint J (2013) Policing public housing: New York and British cities. Safer Communities, 12(1), 13-23.
- Flint J (2012) Housing Policy, the Right to the City and the Construction of Knowledge. International Journal of Housing Policy, 12(3), 253-261.
- Flint J (2012) Catholic Schools and Sectarianism in Scotland: educational places and the production and negotiation of urban space. Policy Futures in Education, 10(5), 507-517.
- Batty E & Flint J (2012) Talking 'bout poor folks (thinking 'bout my folks): Perspectives on comparative poverty in working class households. International Journal of Housing Policy, 13(1), 1-16.
- Flint J & Powell R (2012) The English city riots of 2011, 'Broken Britain' and the retreat into the present. Sociological Research Online, 17(3).
- Flint J (2012) The Inspection House and Neglected Dynamics of Governance: The Case of Domestic Visits in Family Intervention Projects. Housing Studies, 27(6), 822-838.
- Flint J (2011) The role of sanctions in intensive support and rehabilitation: Rhetoric, rationalities and realities. British Journal of Community Justice, 9(1-2), 55-67.
- Flint J (2011) Housing studies, social class and being towards dwelling. Housing, Theory and Society, 28(1), 75-91.
- Flint J (2010) Faith and Housing in England: Promoting Community Cohesion or Contributing to Urban Segregation?. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36(2), 257-274.
- Powell R & Flint J (2009) (In)formalization and the Civilizing Process: Applying the Work of Norbert Elias to Housing‐Based Anti‐Social Behaviour Interventions in the UK. Housing, Theory and Society, 26(3), 159-178.
- Flint J (2009) Migrant information packs and the colonisation of civility in the UK. Space and Polity, 13(2), 127-140.
- Flint J & Pawson H (2009) Social landlords and the regulation of conduct in urban spaces in the United Kingdom. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 9(4), 415-435.
- Flint J (2009) Cultures, Ghettos and Camps: Sites of Exception and Antagonism in the City. Housing Studies, 24(4), 417-431.
- Crawford A & Flint J (2009) Urban safety, anti-social behaviour and the night-time economy. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 9(4), 403-413.
- Flint J (2007) Faith schools, multiculturalism and community cohesion: Muslim and Roman Catholic state schools in England and Scotland. Policy and Politics, 35(2), 251-268.
- Flint J (2007) 'Britain's 'civilising' project: community cohesion and core values' [35 : 2 April 2007] - In response to Jon Burnett. Policy and Politics, 35(3), 568-569.
- Flint J (2006) Stratégies d'empowerment et lutte contre les comportements. Géographie, économie, société, 8(1), 17-36.
- Flint J & Kearns A (2006) Housing, neighbourhood renewal and social capital: The case of registered social landlords in Scotland. European Journal of Housing Policy, 6(1), 31-54.
- Flint J (2006) Maintaining an arm's length? Housing, community governance and the management of 'problematic' populations. Housing Studies, 21(2), 171-186.
- Flint J & Nixon J (2006) Governing neighbours: Anti-social behaviour orders and new forms of regulating conduct in the UK. Urban Studies, 43(5-6), 939-955.
- Atkinson R, Blandy S, Flint J & Lister D (2005) Gated cities of today? Barricaded residential development in England. Town Planning Review, 76(4), 401-422.
- Flint J (2004) The responsible tenant: housing governance and the politics of behaviour. Housing Studies, 19(6), 893-909.
- Atkinson R & Flint J (2004) Fortress UK? Gated communities, the spatial revolt of the elites and time–space trajectories of segregation. Housing Studies, 19(6), 875-892.
- Flint J (2004) Reconfiguring agency and responsibility in the governance of social housing in Scotland. Urban Studies, 41(1), 151-173.
- Atkinson R & Flint J (2004) Order born of chaos? The capacity for informal social control in disempowered and 'disorganised' neighbourhoods. Policy and Politics, 32(3), 333-350.
- Flint J & Rowlands R (2003) Commodification, normalisation and intervention: Cultural, social and symbolic capital in housing consumption and governance. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 18(3), 213-232.
- Flint J (2003) Housing and ethopolitics: constructing identities of active consumption and responsible community. Economy and Society, 32(4), 611-629.
- Flint J (2002) Return of the Governors: Citizenship and the New Governance of Neighbourhood Disorder in the UK. Citizenship Studies, 6(3), 245-264.
- Flint J (2002) Social Housing Agencies and the Governance of Anti-social Behaviour. Housing Studies, 17(4), 619-637.
- Raco M & Flint J (2001) Communities, places and institutional relations: assessing the role of area-based community representation in local governance. Political Geography, 20(5), 585-612.
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