Professor Chris Hamnett
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Chris Hamnett has been at King’s since 1995. Before coming to King’s he had a long career at the Open University interspersed with numerous visiting positions including UBC, George Washington University, ANU, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Nuffield College Oxford, where he held the Sir Norman Chester Senior Research Fellowship, and recently at Sciences Po, Paris.
He is regarded as a leading British expert on housing wealth and inheritance and and a leading researcher in the fields of social polarization, gentrification and housing. He has authored or co-authored a number of books including Cities, Housing and Profits (1989), Shrinking the State: the political underpinnings of privatization (1998) Winners and Losers: home ownership in modern Britain (1999), and Unequal City: London in the global arena (2003).
He was a member of the Dutch equivalent of the RAE geography team in 2000-1, and in 2006 he was on the international assessment panel for the departments of geography and urban studies at the Hebrew U in Jerusalem. He has held a variety of external examiner posts at the universities of Reading, Sheffield, Nottingham, Oxford, Birkbeck and Oxford amongst others. He is on the editorial boards of several academic journals
In the mid 1980s his research on the flat break-up and conversion market in London led to his being appointed as member and research director of the Nugee Committee of Inquiry into the problems of purpose built flats. The findings and recommendations of this committee which received all party support in Parliament led directly to the 1987 Landlord and Tenants Act. His current research is on the links between social class, ethnic change, the housing market and education in East London.
His knowledge of the housing market in both London and Britain was recognised by his becoming a Westminster housing commissioner in 2005-6,. In 2007 he was elected a member of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is a regular contributor on economic and social issues to the Independent, The Financial Times, the Guardian and other newspapers.
He is regarded as a leading British expert on housing wealth and inheritance and and a leading researcher in the fields of social polarization, gentrification and housing. He has authored or co-authored a number of books including Cities, Housing and Profits (1989), Shrinking the State: the political underpinnings of privatization (1998) Winners and Losers: home ownership in modern Britain (1999), and Unequal City: London in the global arena (2003).
He was a member of the Dutch equivalent of the RAE geography team in 2000-1, and in 2006 he was on the international assessment panel for the departments of geography and urban studies at the Hebrew U in Jerusalem. He has held a variety of external examiner posts at the universities of Reading, Sheffield, Nottingham, Oxford, Birkbeck and Oxford amongst others. He is on the editorial boards of several academic journals
In the mid 1980s his research on the flat break-up and conversion market in London led to his being appointed as member and research director of the Nugee Committee of Inquiry into the problems of purpose built flats. The findings and recommendations of this committee which received all party support in Parliament led directly to the 1987 Landlord and Tenants Act. His current research is on the links between social class, ethnic change, the housing market and education in East London.
His knowledge of the housing market in both London and Britain was recognised by his becoming a Westminster housing commissioner in 2005-6,. In 2007 he was elected a member of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is a regular contributor on economic and social issues to the Independent, The Financial Times, the Guardian and other newspapers.
