Professor Roger Burrows
BSc, MSc
Expertise
Roger works across social policy, sociology and geography and is interested in housing and urban studies, digital cultures, social inequalities, the history of social research methods and the sociology of higher education.
Current positions
Professor in Global Inequalities
School for Policy Studies
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Biography
He is committed to interdisciplinary working across the arts, humanities and the social sciences and also has a keen interest in creative and social technologies. About one-half of his published outputs have been in the field of housing and urban studies with the rest being variously concerned with: social inequalities; digital cultures; health; the social life of methods; the sociology of higher education; and various other topics. He is the author or co-author of some 160 articles, chapters, books and reports.
Between 2002-2005 he was the co-editor of Housing Studies. Between 2005-2007 he led the UK ESRC E-Society Programme. He is currently on the editorial boards of both Body & Society and Theory, Culture & Society. He was an output assessor for the Social Policy and Social Work Unit of Assessment in the 2014 UK REF and was an interdisciplinary assessor in REF 2021. He has supervised 19 PhD students to successful completion and is keen to supervise more
He has, most recently, published on the social geography and cultural politics of the superrich in London and the history of geodemographic technologies. He is currently working on a study of algorithmic risk profiling technologies in housing markets and the use of app-based fintech by young people.
Research interests
Housing and Urban Studies
Digital Cultures
Social Inequalities
History of Social Research Methods
Sociology of Higher Education
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Acid Attacks in North East England: A Victim-Centred Perspective NIHR Via Newcastle Uni
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
28/03/2022 to 29/09/2023
Code Encounters: Algorithmic risk profiling tools as housing market intermediaries
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2023
Publications
Selected publications
01/11/2021Software, sovereignty and the post-neoliberal politics of exit
Theory, Culture and Society
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London
Urban Geography
The “Haves” and the “Have Yachts”:
Cultural Politics
Recent publications
20/02/2024Open Banking and data reassurance: the case of tenant referencing in the UK
Information, Communication & Society
When We Were Almost Modern? Theory, Methods and Politics at The Centre for Environmental Studies, 1966-75
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Automation hesitancy: confidence deficits, established limits and notional horizons in the application of algorithms within the private rental sector in the UK
Information, Communication & Society
Exploring the Role of Paradata in Digitally Supported Qualitative Co-Research
CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Not such a small business
Work and Enterprise Culture