Peter has a background in housing practice and in research on housing and social policy. He has been responsible for major research projects in the field of 'race' and housing, including Career Opportunities for Ethnic Minorities in the North West (1998) for the National Housing Federation and Housing Corporation, Building Equality in Black and Minority Ethnic Employment (2000) for the Housing Corporation, and Building Racial and Sexual Equality in the Construction Industry (2001) for DETR. He has also been responsible for numerous research projects in the field of resident involvement and empowerment, including research into Estate Agreements for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (1993-5), into the Right to Manage for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1996-7), into Community Control for the Housing Corporation (2001-2), and into the Future of Community Governance for the Economic and Social Research Council (2005-2006). He has conducted research into many social issues, such as homelessness, substance misuse, police reform, community safety, migration and youth offending - for a wide variety of funding organisations.
Key Recent Publications Include:
2011: ‘Situating community enterprise: a theoretical explanation’,
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 23, 5-6: 317-330
2011: ‘Multiscalarity and neighbourhood governance’, Public Policy &
Administration 26, 1: 81
2011: ‘Young people living in the YMCA’, Social Policy & Society 10, 4: 559-570
2011: ‘Democracy and participation’, Policy & Politics 39, 3: 417-437.
2011: Understanding Community: Politics, policy and practice. Bristol: The
Policy Press.
2011: ‘Critical realism’, in International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home.
London: Elsevier.
2011: ‘Resident and neighbourhood movements’, in International Encyclopedia of
Housing and Home. London: Elsevier.
2011: ‘Conservative housing policy’, in Bochel, H. (ed) The Conservative Party
and Social Policy. Bristol: The Policy Press: 119-144.
2009: ‘The decline and rise of neighbourhoods: the importance of neighbourhood
governance’, European Journal of Housing Policy 9, 1: 25-44
2009: ‘Understanding community policing’, Policing: An International Journal of
Police Strategies and Management 32, 2: 261-277
2009: ‘ “The feeling’s mutual”: respect as the basis for co-operative
interaction’, in Millie, A. (ed) Securing Respect: Behavioural expectations and
anti- social behaviour in the UK. Bristol: The
Policy Press: 139-167.
2009: ‘Building a “community co-operative” at Hill Holt Wood’, Journal of
Co-operative Studies 42, 2: 38-47