Peter Anthony Kemp,

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(born 25 December 1955) is a social scientist.

Career

Kemp was born on 25 December 1955. He graduated from the

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

with a geography degree in 1977 and two years later completed a

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degree at the

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. In 1984, the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

awarded him a

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for his

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"The transformation of the urban housing market in Britain c. 1885–1939"."Kemp, Prof. Peter Anthony"
''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 17 June 2018."The Transformation of the Urban Housing Market in Britain c. 1885–1939"
''University of Sussex''. Retrieved 17 June 2018. Kemp returned to Glasgow in 1985 as a research fellow, before lecturing at the

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from 1987 to 1990, when he was appointed the first Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy at the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

. He returned to Glasgow again in 1996, as a professor of housing and social policy, and then back to York to take up a professorship of social policy in 2002. In 2006, he was appointed

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at the

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and held that post until 2013, although he remained a professor of public policy at the University. Since 2011, he has also been Vice-Dean at Oxford's

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."Peter Kemp"
''Blavatnik School of Government''. Retrieved 17 June 2018. Kemp's research focuses on housing policy especially related to housing allowances, the private rental sector, welfare and homelessness."Professor Peter Kemp"
''University of Oxford''. Retrieved 17 June 2018.

Honours and awards

In 2011, Kemp was elected a

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(FAcSS).

Selected publications

* (Co-editor with Tony Crook) ''Private Rental Housing: Comparative Perspectives'' (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014). * (Co-authored with Tony Crook) ''Transforming Private Landlords: Housing, Markets and Public Policy'' (Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley, 2011). * (Editor), ''Housing Allowances in Comparative Perspective'' (Bristol: Policy Press, 2007). * (Co-editor with Caroline Glendinning), ''Cash and Care: Policy Challenges in the Welfare State'' (Bristol: Policy Press, 2006). * (Co-editor with Bernhard Bakker-Tauritz and Annika Sunden) ''Sick Societies? Trends in Disability Benefits in Post-industrial Welfare States'' (Geneva: International Social Security Association, 2006). * ''Private Renting in Transition'' (Coventry: CIH Publications, 2004). * (Co-authored with David Clapham and

Susan J. Smith Susan Jane Smith (born 1956) is a British geographer and academic. Since 2009, she has been mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. Smith previously held the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh from 1990 to 2004 and until ...

), ''Housing and Social Policy'' (London: Macmillan, 1990). * (Editor) ''The Private Provision of Rented Housing'' (Aldershot: Avebury, 1988).

References

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