The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning; This pioneering book critically examines how governments, industry and civil society use housing, property and planning data, offering a vital refl...

Housing experts and writers discuss their books and the current housing emergency

Experts discuss how housing and planning evidence is produced, shared & used, & the limits to our knowledge & its implications.

Vacancy has long been considered a key housing and urban development issue, and many states produce datasets and official statistics that detail its extent and form. Yet, there is no internationall...

The third in a series on how housing figures in Ireland become “true.” The first two showed how a soft number gets accepted. This one shows how a hard number gets dismissed.

Social movements are adapting to datafication in diverse and complex ways. This paper refines existing conceptualisations of datafied social movements by analys...

Devolving doctoral and postdoctoral recruitment seems to be about offloading administrative responsibility

Existing studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar...

Letter to Min Higher Ed

This paper examines the practice of "embodied statecraft" as fundamental to Taiwanese government’s ‘One Nation, One Map’ (ONOM) land digitalisation in…

Open data has become increasingly common in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) in recent years, but its promise falters when the “data” are people’s stories, such as i...

Thematic Issue, Vol 11 (2026)

The digitalization of planning has taken place in a context where planning work is on-going and cannot be halted, and in which there are embedded institutional and technical systems and practices, ...

How many housing units need to be built to meet demand is a perennial question that governments in market economies must grapple with and act on. Build too few units and excess demand will drive up...

Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)

Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)

The Research Ireland Public Service Fellowship offers researchers a unique opportunity to be temporarily seconded to Government Departments and Agencies (Host Organisations) to work on specific projec...

Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector, As societies struggle to respond to the revival of private renting, this book offers the first comprehensive and c...

John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards 2026-2027 The call for student applications for the John & Pat Hume Doctoral Scholarship Awards opens on Monday 1st December 2025 at 12 noon and closes on Friday 23rd

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Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, transgender activists are using data and data activism to advocate for and to protect trans communities. This tran...

Based on a survey of research articles published in Urban Geography between 2020 and 2024, I identify a tepidness in qualitative urban geographers’ relationship with method. This tepidness is marke...

Data relating to urban development are often accepted and used at face value, treated as impartial, objective, incontrovertible facts. However, the validity and veracity of official datasets can be...