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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Glen Bramley is affiliated with Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions and Social Sciences, with a notable focus on General Health Professions and areas such as Finance, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Safety Research, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics addressed in Bramley's work include:

  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Social Issues and Policies
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Bramley has authored several papers, including:

  • Mapping the "hard edges" of disadvantage in England: Adults involved in homelessness, substance misuse, and offending (2020, Geographical Journal)

Although Bramley is listed as the author only on the above paper, frequent co-authors associated with their research include Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Filip Sosenko, Hal Pawson, Steve Wilcox, and Beth Watts.

Some of the frequent publication venues for Bramley's work and that of colleagues include:

  • UNSWorks (UNSW Sydney)
  • Geographical Journal
  • BMC Public Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • Health & Place

Bramley's research emphasis on homelessness and social disadvantage aligns with topics such as adult involvement in multiple challenges including substance misuse and offending. Their work also situates within broader themes of housing finance and the effects of neoliberal policy frameworks.

Bramley has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, reflecting standing within the social sciences community.

Best Publications

  • The social dimension of sustainable development: Defining urban social sustainability

    Nicola Dempsey;Glen Bramley;Sinéad Power;Caroline Brown

  • Urban form and social sustainability: the role of density and housing type

    Glen Bramley;Sinéad Power

  • The key to sustainable urban development in UK cities? The influence of density on social sustainability

    N. Dempsey;C. Brown;G. Bramley

  • Social Sustainability and Urban Form: Evidence from Five British Cities:

    Glen Bramley;Nicola Dempsey;Sinead Power;Caroline Brown

  • Pathways into Multiple Exclusion Homelessness in Seven UK Cities

    Suzanne Fitzpatrick;Glen Bramley;Sarah Johnsen

  • The Cost of the Cuts: The Impact on Local Government and Poorer Communities

    Annette Hastings;Nick Bailey;Glen Bramley;Maria Gannon

  • Homelessness in the UK: who is most at risk?

    Glen Bramley;Suzanne Fitzpatrick

  • The impact of land use planning and tax subsidies on the supply and price of housing in Britain

    Glen Bramley

  • An affordability crisis in British housing: Dimensions, causes and policy impact

    Glen Bramley

  • Elements of urban form

    Nicola Dempsey;Caroline Brown;Shibu Raman;Sergio Porta

  • Affordability, poverty and housing need: triangulating measures and standards

    Glen Bramley

  • Hard Edges: mapping severe and multiple disadvantage in England

    Glen Bramley;Suzanne Fitzpatrick;Jenny Edwards;David Ford

  • Welfare Sanctions and Conditionality in the UK

    Beth Watts;Suzanne Fitzpatrick;Glen Bramley;David Watkins

  • Austerity urbanism in England: The ‘regressive redistribution’ of local government services and the impact on the poor and marginalised:

    Annette Hastings;Nick Bailey;Glen Bramley;Maria Gannon

  • Coping with the cuts? The management of the worst financial settlement in living memory

    Annette Hastings;Nick Bailey;Maria Gannon;Kirsten Besemer

  • Land-Use Planning and the Housing Market in Britain: The Impact on Housebuilding and House Prices:

    GR Bramley

  • Chinese Housing Reform in State-owned Enterprises and Its Impacts on Different Social Groups:

    Ya Ping Wang;Yanglin Wang;Glen Bramley

  • The homelessness monitor: England 2015

    Suzanne Fitzpatrick;Hal Pawson;Glen Bramley;Steve Wilcox

  • Key Issues in Housing: Policies and Markets in 21st Century Britain

    Glen Bramley;M Munro;Hal Pawson

  • Equalization Grants and Local Expenditure Needs: The Price of Equality

    Glen Bramley

  • The homelessness monitor: England 2013

    Suzanne Fitzpatrick;Hal Pawson;Glen Bramley;Steve Wilcox

Frequent Co-Authors

Rowland Atkinson
Rowland Atkinson University of Sheffield
Ivan Turok
Ivan Turok University of the Free State
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ashraf Dewan
Ashraf Dewan Curtin University
Jonathan Bradshaw
Jonathan Bradshaw University of York
Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson University of Sheffield

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