About
I’m a third-year DPhil (PhD) student at the University of Oxford. My research focuses on the impact of local authority financial decisions on local authority (council) housing and its impact on residents' mental and physical wellbeing.
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Research
Born and raised on a council estate in North London, my research is informed not only by academic interest but also by lived experience of the social, material and political conditions that shape everyday life in social housing. This perspective underpins my commitment to understanding how housing systems produce and reproduce inequalities, and to examining the consequences of poor-quality homes, disinvestment in local authority stock and the policy decisions that constrain the lives of low-income households.
My work is primarily quantitative, drawing on large-scale administrative and survey data including Understanding Society, the English Housing Survey and local government financial records to analyse the relationships between housing conditions, local authority expenditure patterns and resident wellbeing, as well as the drivers of mobility out of the social housing tenure.
More broadly, my research sits at the intersection of housing studies, social policy and urban inequality, with a particular focus on how austerity-era reforms have reshaped the capacity of local authorities to maintain, manage and invest in social housing.
Publications
Peer-reviewed
Working papers
Teaching
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Contact
Email: neftalem.emanuel@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Location: Between London and Oxford.