Staff
Dr Connie Tang
Position(s):
- Research Associate / Project Manager, Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR)
Contact information:
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 (3)30802
Email: pyt20
Research interests:
An experienced housing researcher with 10 years experience in policy analysis. She is an expert in housing markets and related welfare policies in both eastern and western developed countries. She has strong analytical skills in conducting interviews, designing questionnaires, and gathering and analysing a mass of data from secondary datasets, for example, the Census, CORE (the COntinuing REcord of housing associations new lettings), FRS (Family Resources Survey), RSRs (the Regulatory and Statistical Returns), NROSH (the National Register of the Social Housing). She is also proficient in using PAWS (previously SPSS) for statistical analysis. Her research in the CCHPR covers a wide range of projects relating to affordable housing in the UK and housing associations in England. She has proven track record in publishing articles in Housing Studies and Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, and submitting government reports to the Scottish Government, Tenant Services Authority, Home and Community Agency, and Department for Communities and Local Government.
Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles
“Between ‘market’ and ‘welfare’: rent restructuring policy in the housing association sector, England,” Housing Studies vol 23.5, pp. 737-759: 2008.
“The quasi-market based re-regulation: Effects of setting housing association rents in England,” Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, vol. 26, no. 1: 2010.
Chapters in books
“Change and inertia in housing policy: Japanese housing system during economic crisis,” in James Lee and Kam-wah Chan (eds.) The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia. MD.: Lexington Books: 2007.
“Taiwan’s housing policy in the content of the East Asian Welfare model,” in Richard Groves, Alan Murie and Christopher Watson (eds.) Housing and the New Welfare State: Perspectives from East Asia and Europe. Hampshire: Ashgate: 2007.
Review
“Book review: Housing and Social Transition in Japan,” European Journal of Housing Policy, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 480-482: 2007.
Research Reports
"Trends in Housing Association Stock in 2009", Dataspring report on behalf of the Tenant Services Authority: 2010.
"What does the Literature tell us about the Social and Economic Impact of Housing?" Report to the Scottish Government: Communities Analytical Services, with Monk, S. and Whitehead, C.: 2010.
"Affordability of Housing Association Rents: Rent-to-Income Ratio vs. Residual Income", Dataspring report on behalf of the Tenant Services Authority: 2009.
"Continuous Recording of Lettings (CORE): Weighting and Imputation Methodology", London: Department for Communities and Local Government, with Fenton, A., Udagawa, C. and Banks, D.: 2009.