*** EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 20 MAY *** For a second year since its creation, the ENHR working group Collaborative Housing will host a series of workshop sessions at the 2017 ENHR annual conference in Tirana. Papers focusing on the following three main themes are particularly welcome: a) The potential of collaborative models within […]
How does the local institutional context influence the configuration of collaborative housing models? This is the research question of a recently published article in the International Journal of Housing Policy co-authored by IFI-Researcher Richard Lang. Although Austria has a well-established cooperative sector, few empirical studies and no comprehensive overviews have been published on collaborative housing. […]
Call for papers for the stream “Critical Perspectives on Alternative Models of Entrepreneurial Organising: Social Innovation and the De-Growth Economy” at the International Critical Management Studies (CMS) Conference in Liverpool, July 3 – 5, 2017. Convened by IFI researcher Richard Lang and colleagues. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31st January 2017 More informartion
A new Working Paper entitled “Social Enterprise in Austria: A Contextual Approach to Understand an Ambiguous Concept” co-authored by IFI-Researcher Richard Lang and Maria Anastasiadis (University of Graz) has recently been published in the ICSEM Working Paper series. The paper is a key research output of Richard’s involvement in the International Comparative Social Enterprise Models […]
The UK is currently facing a ‘housing crisis’ which has led to the emergence of a ‘generation rent’, whilst narrowing the focus of housing provision onto options for home ownership. As the erosion of social housing provision continues, new options are being considered by housing providers and policy makers to find solutions to develop affordable […]
In the wake of an economic crisis and the search for innovative solutions to provide affordable housing, cooperative and community-led housing initiatives have gained increasing attention across Europe. The social nature of their governance is seen as an advantage over other forms of housing provision when it comes to strengthening social networks, collective identity and […]
The overall aim of the William Plowden Fellowship was to explore the potential that co-operative housing governance offers for effective localism and sustainable community building. The empirical results outlined in the Fellowship Report are based on interviews with housing experts as well as stakeholders and representatives of community-led and co-operative housing in England and Wales between […]
In January 2015, Richard returned to the University of Birmingham (Housing and Communities Research Group, School of Social Policy) for a two-year Marie Curie Fellowship, undertaking research on the governance of cooperative and community-led housing models. It contributes to a larger international comparative study between the housing sectors in England and Austria, focusing on the […]
Richard Lang presented his research on citizen participation and community-led housing in England at the 11th International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Studies (ISTR) in Münster, Germany (July 22 to 25, 2014). His conference paper presents new insights into the community-led housing sector in England which is still emerging and so far insufficiently […]
For recently winning a fellowship, Johannes Gartner, Isabella Hatak and Richard Lang, were honoured with the “Young Researchers’ Award” by the JKU. Richard Lang currently holds an APART-fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and has also won a Marie Curie Fellowship for a research stay at the University of Birmingham.
Dr. Richard Lang presented his current research on social capital building in non-profit housing at the 11th International NPO-Colloquium at JKU Linz, which took place from April 3 to 4, 2014. In the session on resource mobilisation in cooperatives, Richard provided insights into the crucial role of vertical linkages between community members and resource holders […]
On March 13 2014, Ifi-Researcher Richard Lang spoke at the ESRC Seminar “The Big Society, Localism and Housing Policy” at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Richard brought in an international perspective on the co-operative movement, discussing the Austrian model of co-operative housing as a well institutionalised model of innovation ‘from above’. Although in […]
