dhr. prof. dr R. (Richard) Ronald

is a professor at the Centre for Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam and holds a Chair in Housing and Social Change at the University of Birmingham in the UK. He is the Principal Investigator on the HOUWEL project and was awarded an Independent Researchers Grant by the European Research Council in 2011. Among other functions, Richard is the editor of the International Journal of Housing Policy, coordinator of the Home Ownership and Globalization Working Group of the European Network for Housing Research and convener of the Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies Section of the European Association for Japanese Studies. He has published widely on housing in relation to social, economic and urban transformations in Europe and Pacific Asia including a number of monographs and edited volumes. Richard has held Japan Foundation as well as Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowships at Kobe University in Japan (2002-2006), and has been a Visiting Professor at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea (2010-2012). He is originally a graduate of the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University in the UK where he received his Masters in Critical Theory and PhD in Housing and Urban Studies

Teaching

At UvA Richard contributes to the Masters and Bachelors programs in Social Geography and Planning as well as running a course on home and housing in the Urban Studies minor. He also lectures in Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. He previously ran an undergraduate sociology course on contemporary Japan at the University of Leiden and contributed as a guest lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft. Richard has also taught ethnography, psychology and sociology for Nottingham Trent University, the Open University and the Worker's Educational Association in the UK . 

PhD Students

Richard is currently supervising a number of PhD projects on:

• How Post-crisis Socioeconomic Transformations are Restructuring Access, Exclusion and Exposure to Housing Markets
• Family Housing Property and Household Welfare Strategies: Patterns of Intergenerational Solidarity in Different Welfare Regimes Context
• Understanding Housing Provision Changes and their Impacts on Housing Access for New migrants in Urban China
• Housing Affordability and Market Based (re)regulation and Reform in Amsterdam and New York

 He is also interested in supervising students for Masters and PhD projects on:

• Housing markets and housing systems
• Housing policy and welfare states
• Relationships between families, households and social change
• Urban singles - urban life-courses - urban lifestyles
• Family change and urban transformations
• Home and housing

Activities

In June 2013 Richard Chaired the International Sociological Association Research Committee 43 conference, ‘At Home in the Housing Market’, at the University of Amsterdam. In November 2008 and March 2010, he convened two other international conferences. The former for the Home Ownership and Globalisation Working Group of the European Network of Housing Research (ENHR), the latter for the Working Group for Comparative Housing Research. He was also conference secretary for the 2005 Asia Pacific Network for Housing Research Conference in Kobe, Japan 

Research Reports

Starters on the Amsterdam Housing Market (September 2013): for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, The Netherlands

• Research Report Starters on the Amsterdam Housing Market

• Ronald, R.&Elsinga, M (eds) 2012. Beyond Home Ownership: Housing, Welfare and Society

• Ronald, R.&Alexy, A. (eds) 2011. Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transfromation

• Ronald, R. 2008. The Ideology of Home Ownership: Homeowner Soceities and the Role of Housing

• Doling, J. Elsinga, M.&Ronald, R. (eds) 2010. Home Ownership: Getting in, Getting out, Getting from - III

• Hirayama, Y.&Ronald, R. (eds) 2007. Housing and Social Transition in Japan

HOUWEL

Housing Markets and Welfare State Transformations:

How Family Housing Property Is Reshaping Welfare Regimes

• HOUWEL Homepage

• No ancillary activities