Alex Marsh
- Professor of Public Policy - BSc (Warw) MSocSci (Birm)
- Centre for Urban and Public Policy Research
- Tel: +44 (0)117 954 5584
- Email: Alex.Marsh@bristol.ac.uk
- Personal website: http://alex-marsh.org/
Personal profile
Alex has been Head of the School for Policy Studies since 2007.
Alex’s research activities have encompassed a wide range of topics in the field of housing studies. He has been particularly concerned with policy in the social and private rented housing sectors and with regulation and the application of heterodox economic ideas to the analysis of housing markets. His interest in housing policy is both substantive and for the insights it can offer into broader questions of policy-making and the policy process. He is currently working on a range of writing projects including a library of readings in housing economics to be published by Sage, in collaboration with Kenneth Gibb (University of Glasgow).
Between 2005 and 2009 Alex was a managing editor of Housing Studies. He continues as a member of the journal’s Management Board.
Since 2006 Alex has worked part-time as a Visiting Academic Consultant to the Law Commission. His work with the Commission addressed compliance issues in the private rented sector and redress against public bodies.
Alex is a trustee of Brunelcare, for whom he currently chairs the Audit and Scrutiny Committee.
Teaching interests
Analysing public policy; Housing, economy and society; The economics of public and social policy; Public management and organisation.
Research interests
Housing policy, economics and finance; Theorizing the policy process; Economics, organisation and management in the public sector.