Dr Alice Earley
- Research Associate (Urban Studies & Social Policy)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-750XBiography
Dr Alice Earley is a Research Associate at the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) in the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy at the University of Glasgow. Prior to this, she was a Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, a Tutor in Urban Studies, Public Policy and Qualitative Research Methods and a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow.
She has an interdisciplinary background in urban studies, public and urban policy, planning and geography. Before returning to study for her MRes and PhD at the University of Glasgow, she worked for several years in economic development, regeneration and public policy research and consultancy in both Scotland and England.
She holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Glasgow, entitled Community enterprises, community assets and processes of urban regeneration and gentrification; an MRes in Urban Research, also from the University of Glasgow; an MSc in Urban Regeneration from the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL; and an MA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Edinburgh. While studying for her PhD, Alice also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Social and Public Policy and completed an internship in Public Service Reform at the Scottish Government
Research interests
Alice's research interests span across the following themes:
- Debates about the interrelations between regeneration and gentrification;
- Neighbourhood and housing inequalities and their relations to structural inequalities;
- Social and community enterprise and its relationship to urban and public policy;
- Community ownership and management of assets;
- Urban governance and the changing relationships between the public, community/ voluntary and private sectors, including the role of partnerships in the policy process; and
- Debates about how to address structural inequalities and their manifestation at the local level.
Research groups
Teaching
At the University of Glasgow, I have taught on and/ or marked a variety of social, public and urban policy, housing and city planning courses, as either a Graduate Teaching Assistant or Postgraduate Tutor:
Undergraduate
- Social and Public Policy 1A: Foundations of Welfare (PUBPOL1010)
- Social and Public Policy 1B: Understanding Glasgow in a Globalised World (PUBPOL1011)
- Social and Public Policy 2B: Policy, Politics and Power (PUBPOL2011)
- Remaking Cities in a Global Age: Dilemmas of Urban Policy (PUBPOL4034)
- Dissertation in Social and Public Policy (PUBPOL4001P)
Postgraduate
- Evidence, Evaluation and Policy (URBAN5083)
- Understanding Public Policy (URBAN5093)
- Governance and Markets (URBAN5085)
- Researching Public Policy (URBAN5135)
- Housing Policy Contrasts across a Devolved UK (URBAN5129)
- Spatial Planning Strategies (URBAN5046)
- REPR Dissertation (URBAN5054p)
- Public Policy Dissertation (URBAN5080p)
I also worked as Programme Tutor for the MSc in Public Policy and Management (2020-21).
At the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, I provided guest lectures for the following courses during my time as a Research Fellow (2021-22):
- Implementing Regeneration Projects (BPLN0064)
- Urban Regeneration: Urban Problems and Problematics (BPLN0065)
- Participatory Urban Planning Project (BPLN0049)
