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John Flint - MA (Hons), MPhil
John Flint is a Lecturer in Housing Studies at the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow. He has worked in the Department since 1998. Previously he was a researcher at the Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh. He has worked on a wide range of research for a number of funders including the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the ODPM, Communities Scotland and the Scottish Executive. He has experience of managing several of these projects. His research interests include neighbourhoods and social capital, communities and crime, housing management and urban governance.

SELECTED FUNDED RESEARCH

Where there’s muck there’s no brass; Environmental Services in Deprived Neighbourhoods in the UK
JRF, 2002-2005

Possession Actions and Evictions by Social Landlords, ODPM, 2002-2004

Towards a national accommodation strategy for sex offenders
CIH Scotland, 2003-04

A Good Practice Framework for Tenant Participation in Scotland
Communities Scotland, 2004-04

Evaluation of Scottish Homes Stock Transfer Process
Communities Scotland, 2004

Analysis of Consultation Responses to the Proposed Anti-social Behaviour Bill in Scotland
Scottish Executive, 2003

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Flint, J. and Kearns, A. (2004, forthcoming) ‘Enabling and Cohesive or Irrelevant and Divisive? The Role of Church of Scotland Congregations in Scottish Communities’, Scottish Affairs, August 2004

Flint, J. (2004) ‘Reconfiguring Agency and Responsibility in Social Housing Governance in Scotland’, Urban Studies, 41(1): 151-172


Flint, J. (2003) ‘Housing and Ethopolitics: constructing identities of active consumption and responsible community,’ Economy and Society, 32(4): 611-629

Flint, J. and Rowlands, R. (2003) ‘Commodification, normalization and intervention: Cultural, social and symbolic capital in housing consumption and governance’, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 18(3): 212-232

Flint, J. (2002) ‘Return of the Governors: the new governance of neighbourhood disorder in the UK’, Citizenship Studies, 6(3): 245-264.

Flint, J. (2002) ‘Social Housing Agencies and the Governance of Anti-social Behaviour’ Housing Studies, 17(4): 619-638.