Information about Presentations

Call for papers

We are delighted to open our call for papers for our 2025 Annual Conference titled: Households, housing research, policy and practice.

Join us for the Housing Studies Association Annual Conference 2025 as we come together to share and discuss cutting-edge housing research and policy/practice issues during uncertain times for housing systems. 

Our theme for this conference is deliberately broad: Households, housing research, policy and practice, but it still provides a timely opportunity for us to think about the taken-for-granted relationship between the household, housing policy and housing debate.  The conference will provide a forum for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore the complex connections between theory and practice and problem-framing and problem-solving.  We have asked our plenary speakers to think “outside the box” in addressing the topic of the household in housing studies and we are sure that they will inspire you during the event and give you food for thought subsequently.    

We warmly welcome contributions from UK-based and international researchers (within and outside of academia, from all disciplinary backgrounds and at all stages of their careers), policymakers and practitioners, campaigners, activists, and communities and contributions that consider both single country and comparative cases.  We would particularly welcome offers of jointly-authored papers which establish a dialogue between practice and academia. The conference will further explore broader housing and place research, theoretical developments and policy developments. 

At HSA, we are proud of our welcoming and friendly atmosphere at the conference, and we strongly encourage the submission of papers related to housing-related research, practice, and education, irrespective of their direct alignment with the conference theme, fostering a diverse and inclusive discourse on housing studies. 

Our conference offers an opportunity to engage in broader discussions including (but not limited to): 

• Households, housing research, policy and practice
• The household as a unit of analysis – questions about data linkage and big data
• Quasi-households and alternative housing consumption bundles
• The approaches to conceptualising the meaning of 'home' and household
• The relationship between our housing and neighbourhoods and our physical and psychological health
• Housing finance and economics
• Intersectional inequalities in access to safe and secure housing
• The management and governance of housing providers
• Urban change and dynamics in housing systems
• Fuel poverty and climate change
• The design and quality of residential buildings
• Harm and housing
• Emergency services and our communities; risk, safety, prevention and response
• Housing, migration, and communities 
• Housing displacement and gentrification  
• Global and cross-sectional responses to housing crises
• Housing activism and politics
• Homelessness, housing precarity, housing and welfare policy, and,
• Other topics relating to housing-related research, education, and practice.   

Key dates

Deadline for submissions: 20th December 2024 at 5pm

Notification of acceptance: By the 10th January 2025

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

1. What formats are you accepting for this year’s conference?

We are holding a hybrid conference with in-person and online presentations. We will be accepting the following:

• In-person full-paper presentation in Sheffield
• In-person lightning presentation in Sheffield
• Online pre-recorded full-paper presentation and attendance at an online Q&A workshop
• Online pre-recorded lightning presentation and attendance at an online Q&A workshop

2. What length should the presentation be?

• In-person full-paper presentations should last between 15 and 20 minutes, followed by 5-10 minutes of questions for in-person presentations and 10 minutes of questions for online sessions.
• Online full-paper pre-recorded presentations will not be accepted if they are substantially longer than 20 minutes.
• Lightning presentations should be 5 minutes, whether in-person or pre-recorded for online. 

3. What is a lightning presentation?

You can choose to deliver a 5 minute talk on your work or ideas. These are ideal to showcase work in progress or condense your research and thinking down to key take-aways for policy actors. 

4. How do I submit an abstract/proposal?

We are using the Oxford Abstract platform for the end-to-end management of the conference. This includes abstract submission, registration, and accessing conference resources, timetable and the platform. 

You will be asked to create an account (unless you have previously used this platform), please make sure that the email address you use to submit a paper is the same email address you use to register, all communications around your paper and registration will come through this sytem.