Staff

Dr Nicky Morrison

Position(s):

Lecturer, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.
Associate of the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research

Teaching:

coordinator of module "Housing and regeneration" in the Planning Growth and Regeneration (PGR) MPhil
coordinator of the undergraduate course "Built Environment"
coordinator of undergraduate course "Land and urban economics". Lecture on "Housing economics and policy"

Contact information:

Telephone: +44 (0)1223 (3)37133
Email: nm10001

Research interests:

`Promoting mixed communities’. Commissioned by the Department of Communities and Local Government to examine how to achieve a better balance between allocating social homes to most needy and improving mix of housing stock

`Private sector housing renewal’. Commissioned by the German Federal Government’s Office for Building and Spatial Structure (BBR) to compare the problems of underinvestment in older inner urban housing stock and government initiatives adopted to address this issue in six European countries (Germany, England, France, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary).

`Urban Sustainability and governance’. Funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers through the NORDPLUS Neighbourhood programme and EU funding for New Associated States (NAS). The project focused upon developing an understanding of social-democrat Nordic countries and post-communist Baltic States policies towards neighbourhood management and urban governance and providing lessons for other European countries to draw upon.

"Evaluating housing and neighbourhood initiatives to improve the quality of life of deprived urban neighbourhoods and assessing their transferability across Europe".. Collaborative research with 8 Western and Eastern European countries (England, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Estonia). (Part of the European Commission Fifth Framework "Cities of Tomorrow" programme. One of the four steering group co-ordinators)

“Cambridge key workers study” and “Surrey key worker study”. These two separate research projects were commissioned by Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council and Surrey County Council to examine the interrelationships between housing and labour markets at the local level. On-going research interest

Publications:

Morrison (2009) `Housing numbers game: playing by the rules’ Town and Country Planning vol. 78 no 11

Holt-Jensen and Morrison (2009) `Northern Europe – between the East and West’ in A Holt-Jensen & E Pollock (eds) `Urban Sustainability and Governance: New challenges in Nordic-Baltic Housing Policies’ Nova Ltd, pp1-13

Morrison, Holt-Jensen and Julegina (2009)`The Nordic-Baltic housing policies seen in a broader international perspective’ in A Holt-Jensen & E Pollock (eds) `Urban Sustainability and Governance: New challenges in Nordic-Baltic Housing Policies’ Nova Ltd, 2009, pp. 241-254

Morrison (2010) `A green belt under pressure: the case of Cambridge, England’, Planning Practice and Research: Special Issue Green Belts (in press)

Morrison (forthcoming) `Key worker housing policies’, the International Encyclopaedia for Housing and Homes, Elsevier (in press)

Morrison (forthcoming) `Securing key worker housing through the planning system’ in C Whitehead and S Monk `Making housing more affordable: the role of the intermediate sector’ Blackwells (in press)

Morrison `Key worker housing: acceptable face of affordable housing’ ( under review)

Organised and Chaired of the “Housing, growth and regeneration” Congress Track of the Association of European School of Planning (AESOP), Liverpool, July 2009

Morrison & Monk (2006) `Job-housing mismatch: affordability crisis in Surrey, South East of England’, Environment and Planning A, vol 38 (6) pp 1115-1130

Baxter, Tyler, Moore, Morrison (2006) `Enterprising places: sustaining competitive locations for technology based activity’, Cambridge-MIT Institute

Egedy, Kovacs and Morrison (2006) `International experiences of urban rehabilitation initiatives’ in T Egedy `Urban rehabilitation and society’ GRI HAS Budapest 305 pp 71-102

Morrison (2005) `Social cohesion within European Neighbourhoods’ pp 31-43 in D Ciaffi `Neighbourhood housing debate’ Franco Angeli 2005 ISBN 88-464-7345-0

Morrison (2003) `Assessing the need for key worker housing: a case study of Cambridge', Town Planning Review vol 74 (3)

Morrison (2003) `Neighbourhoods and social cohesion: experiences from Europe' International Planning Studies 2003, vol 8 no 2 pp 115-135

Morrison (2002) `Developing indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of UK land use planning' in Y Rydin and A Thornley (eds), `Land Use Planning in the UK - towards a new millenium' Ashgate, London

Morrison (2001) `Social Exclusion and Community Initiatives’ `Examining the difficulties in letting social housing in England’, GeoJournal , vol 51, no 4, pp 339-349

Morrison & Pearce (2000) "Developing indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of the UK Land Use Planning System", Town Planning Review 71 (2) pp191-211

Other information:

Academic History

1988 - 1992 PhD Research Degree in Urban and Regional Planning
Centre for Planning, Strathclyde University, Glasgow,
1984-1987 BA (Hons), Geography, First Class

Department of Land Economy