The Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)
brings together nine UK universities, the National Institute of Economic and
Social Research, the Chartered Institute of Housing, the Royal Town Planning
Institute and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
It is
independent of government and aims to advance knowledge of the housing market,
provide robust evidence to inform housing policy and practice across the UK,
and aim to tackle housing problems at a national, devolved, regional, and local
level.
The five-year
project has received £6 million of funding from the ESRC, with support from the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the AHRC. A further £1.5m of funding came from
the consortium itself. Led by Glasgow University, the centre will have staff
located at five hubs across the UK in Glasgow, Sheffield, London, Cardiff and
Belfast
Gavin Smart, the
deputy chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing, is director
of communications and knowledge exchange at CaCHE.
Housing
professionals are invited to join the launch of CaCHE at an event on
October 18. This will be an opportunity to learn more about the research
that CaCHE will be undertaking in the coming year, and network with leading
academics and professionals from across the housing sector.
The event will take
place between 5.30pm and 7pm at RICS, 12 Great George Street, Parliament
Square, London, SW1P 3AD
Speakers include:
• Lord Bob Kerslake,
Chair, CaCHE Advisory Board
• Professor Ken
Gibb, Director & Principal Investigator, CaCHE
• Dr Emma Stone,
Director of Policy & Research, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Matthew Howell,
Managing Director for UK & Ireland, RICS
