Dr Quintin Bradley

Senior Lecturer
School Of Built Environment, Engineering And Computing
0113 81 21964 Q.Bradley@leedsbeckett.ac.ukAbout Dr Quintin Bradley
Dr Quintin Bradley is a Senior Lecturer in Planning and Housing and leads research into community planning and its impact on housing supply. His work is published in peer reviewed international journals and he is the author of books on the tenants' movement and on localism and neighbourhood planning.
Quintin's PhD was a study of the English tenants' movement and its impact on contentious politics, a research project that combined social movement theory with housing studies and was based on significant community research. Quintin lectures on housing policy and housing development and his research draws attention to the importance of community engagement in planning and housing. As a practitioner Quintin worked for resident-led community organisations, as well as local housing authorities and housing associations. He has been active in campaigns and social movements and has a background as an investigative journalist.
Current Teaching
- MA Town & Regional Planning
- MA Housing Regeneration & Urban Management Planning (MPlan)
- BA Human Geography & Planning
Research Interests
Quintin's research into neighbourhood and community planning has been successful in increasing the number of disadvantaged communities who have benefited from participation in the town and country planning system.The immediate impact has been felt in Leeds which now has the highest number of deprived communities participating in neighbourhood plans of any metropolitan borough.
He is currently working with local groups in Greater Manchester who are participating in the drafting of a new Spatial Framework. Research findings from his research are being disseminated in order to shape the new draft Spatial Framework and to improve the organisational and lobbying abilities of the community network.
Selected Publications
Journal articles (18)
- Bradley Q (2019) Public support for Green Belt: common rights in countryside access and recreation
https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1670049
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2019) The use of direct democracy to decide housing site allocations in English neighbourhood
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2019.1598548
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2018) Neighbourhood planning and the production of spatial knowledge
https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2018.2
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2017) Neighbourhood planning and the impact of place identity on housing development in England
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2017.1297478
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2017) Book review: Understanding community: politics, policy and
practice
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2017.1279718
View Repository Record - Bradley Q; Sparling W (2016) The Impact of Neighbourhood Planning and Localism on House-building in England
https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2016.1197852
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2015) When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2015.1082274
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2015) The political identities of neighbourhood planning in England
https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2015.1046279
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2014) Can neighbourhood planning breathe new life into local democracy?http://www.tcpa.org.uk/
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2014) Bringing democracy back home: Community localism and the domestication of political space
https://doi.org/10.1068/d17312
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2014) Tenants' campaigns for tenure neutrality and a general needs model of social housing: making universal claims
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616718.2014.908569
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2013) 'Putting our mark on things': the identity work of user participation in public services
https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018312468306
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2012) A 'Performative' Social Movement: The Emergence of Collective Contentions within Collaborative Governance
https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2012.721504
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2012) Proud to be a Tenant: The Construction of Common Cause Among Residents in Social Housing
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2012.728574 - Bradley Q (2011) Trouble at the top: The construction of a tenant identity in the governance of social housing organizations
https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2010.496255
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2010) Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001: European Contexts, American Evolutions
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2010.496273 - Bradley Q (2008) Capturing the Castle: Tenant Governance in Social Housing Companies
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673030802425610
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2008) Capturing the Castle: tenant givernance in social housing companies
Books (2)
- Brownill S (2017) Localism and Neighbourhood Planning Power to the People?. Policy Press.
- Bradley Q (2014) The Tenants' Movement: Resident Involvement, Community Action and the Contentious Politics of Housing. Routledge.http://www.sponpress.com/books/details/9780415720250/
Conference contributions (14)
- Bradley Q (2014) The political boundaries of neighbourhood planning in England Edinburgh 01/07/2014.
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2013) Universal Claims: welfare housing reform in UK cities and the resilience of a right to housing London 28/08/2013.
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2013) Subaltern imaginaries of localism: constructions of place, space and democracy in community-led housing organisations. University of York 10/04/2013.
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2012) The Gift Relationship: non-market economies and the entrepreneurial role of community organisations University of Edinburgh 03/07/2012.
- Bradley Q (2012) The gift relationship: the emergence of a non-market economy in the management of vacant property York 18/04/2012. http://www.york.ac.uk/chp/hsa/spring12/papers.htm
- Bradley Q; Horwood K (2011) The right to urban green space: the transformative effects of environmental projects in mutual housing London 31/08/2011.
- Bradley Q; Haigh D (2011) Reclaiming the social: shifting spaces of resistance and containment inside a shrinking state London 31/08/2011.
- Bradley Q (2011) New nomads: the dispossession of the consumer in social housing University of York 13/04/2011. http://www.york.ac.uk/chp/hsa/spring11/papers.htm
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2010) Proud to be a Tenant: frames of power, knowledge and democracy in the tenents' movement . York:
- Bradley Q (2009) Heroes of their own story: agency and resistance in UK housing governance University of Glasgow . University of Glasgow:
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2009) I capture the castle: the construction of a tenant identity in the governance of social housing organisations . University of Cardiff:
- Bradley Q (2009) The Tenants' Movement: the domestication and resurgence of a social movement in English housing policy University of Glasgow 01/09/2009.
View Repository Record - Bradley Q (2008) Lettings policies are from Mars: resident involvement and access to social housing . York: Housing Studies Association.
- Bradley Q (2008) Shouting out loud: voice, exit and collective identity in the social housing sector . York: Housing Studies Association.
Theses or dissertations (1)
- Bradley Q (2012) Tenants' movement: the domestication and resurgence of collective action in social housing
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