Richard is Professor of Housing and Chair of Political and Economic Geographies (PEG) at the University of Amsterdam. His research, focusing on housing in relation to social, economic and urban transformations in Europe and Asia Pacific, has been funded by the European Research Council, the Australian Research Council, The Dutch Ministry of the Interior, the Japan Foundation and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He has been Visiting Professor at National University Singapore, the University of Birmingham (UK), and Kyung Hee University (Seoul, South Korea), and Distinguished Professor at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. He is the current Editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘Contemporary City’ book series and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Housing Policy. Richard sits on various funding and scientific advisory boards in Australia, Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden and the UK. He originally graduated from Nottingham University and Nottingham Trent University in the UK and was a Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow at Kobe University in Japan.

Expertise and research fields 

• Housing Systems
• Urban Transformations
• Assets
• Real Estate
• Cities
• Japan
• East Asia
• Welfare regimes

Activities

• Book Series Editor, The Contemporary City, Palgrave Books
• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Housing Policy (2013-2019)
• Selection Committee (Volkswagen Institute), Germany 
• Advisory Board, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)
• Advisory Board, UK, The Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM)
• Associate Researcher, Australia, Centre of Research Excellence: Healthy Housing  
• Editorial Advisory Board, Housing Studies (Journal)
• Editorial Board, Critical Housing Analysis (Journal)
• International Committee, Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC)
• Management Board, International Journal of Housing Policy (Journal)
• Advisory Board, National Academy of Sciences, Poland, Intergenerational transactions: Transfers of wealth from parents to adult children 
• Advisory Board, Swedish Research Council, Sharing housing in times of housing inequality

Teaching

Richard Ronald is the former director of the Research Masters in Urban Studies and the Urban Studies Summer Programme. He contributes to various Master's and Bachelor's programmes in Social Geography and Urban Planning, and specifically coordinates a number of courses on housing  markets, policy and practice. He has previously lectured in Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK, on Contemporary Japan at the University of Leiden and on Housing and Urban Studies in the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft, the Netherlands. Richard has also taught at Nottingham Trent University, the Open University and the Worker's Educational Association in the UK. 

He currently teaches and coordinates the following courses: 

• Urban Planning - Building the City (Bachelor's Sociale geografie en planologie)
• Urban Studies in Practice (Research Master's Urban Studies)
• Thesis Supervisor (Master's in Urban and Regional Planning)

PhD Students

Richard has recently supervised a number of succesful PhD projects including:

• How Post-crisis Socioeconomic Transformations are Restructuring Access, Exclusion and Exposure to Housing Markets, Rowan Arundel, now Assistant Professor (Marie Curie and NWO Fellow), University of Amsterdam
• Family Housing Property and Household Welfare Strategies: Patterns of Intergenerational Solidarity in Different Welfare Regimes Context, Oana Druta, now Assistant Professor, Technical University of Eindhoven
• Migrants and the New Stage of Public Housing Reform in Urban China, Jing Zhou, now Assistant Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology
• Housing Affordability and Market Based (re)regulation and Reform in Amsterdam and New York, Justin Kadi, now Assistant Professor, Technical University of Vienna

He is currently supervising PhD projects on:

• Closing the Housing Gap: A Spotlight on Intergenerational Inequalities, Amber Howard (with the University of Melbourne (Australian Research Council Discovery Grant))
• Housing inequality and Young People's Housing Practices in China, Junru Ciu (funded by the China Scholarship Council)
• Nieuwe huisvestingsvormen, tijdelijk wonen en de stimuleringsaanpak flexwonen [Temporary and Flexible Housing], Jolien Groot (Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving [Dutch Environment Agency])