My reserach interests can be broadly located within the area of 'urban studies' at the interface between social and institutional aspects of urban sustainability. I am particularly interested in social sustainability, housing, energy, indicators and, more recently, pro-environmental behaviour. I have also undertaken research and work in the following areas:

• sustainable development: measurement, sustainable communities, healthy cities, local sustainability;
• energy: urban energy systems, energy efficiency,  demand mamagement, decentralised energy, energy scenarios;
• housing: housing retrofit, low demand housing, unpopular estates, social housing, housing design and typology;
• urban regeneration: sustainable urban regeneration; area deprivation, urban poverty, neighbourhood renewal, area based initiatives;
• design: urban design, emvironmental masterplanning; sustainable development masterplans/ visions;
• policy analysis: housing, environmental, energy, planning.

My research is inter-disciplibary and I have worked with economists, engineers, architects, political scientists, psychologists and human geographers. I am also interested in policy and industry applications of academic research and worked with cities and built environment professional bodies. I employ both quantitative and qualitative methods in my research, and conceptually I draw on social, political and planning theory.

I currently work on four projects:

• Ee-eE Project (Equal energy-efficiency Europe), which looks at the unequal spatial distribution and outcomes of energy efficiency in buildings in Europe and, particularly, in East Europe;
• PostCURE Network (Post Crisis Urban Responses in Europe), which investigates post-crisis social and institutional innovation in Europe;
• Behaviour by Design/ Design by Behaviour, a Routledge (text) book to be published in 2018; and
• Neighbourhoods through Change 2007-2017. An intimate story of urban housing, deprivation and sustainability in England, an Oxford University Press (research) book to be published in 2019.  

I organise conference tracks for ENHR (European Network for Housing Research), NESS (Nordic Environmental and Social Sciences) and EURA (European Urban Research Association). I am a Research Evaluator with FORMAS (Swedish Research Council).