Theo Barry Born

School of Geography and Planning

Research Associate, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence

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Theo Barry Born
School of Geography and Planning
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
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S3 7ND
Profile

Theo joined the department as a Research Associate at the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) in January 2023. His contributions to CaCHE are focused on housing inequalities and alternative approaches to housing. Through a cross-disciplinary approach, Theo is interested in the relationship between and possibilities afforded by housing as a physical space and housing as an embodied set of practices. A specific concern is with the design, distribution, and inhabitation of room, drawing on Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial perspectives to housing and life in cities. His PhD, completed in 2021, explored how and why London as a city affords so little room to migrant workers and families through a multi-sited, politically engaged ethnographic approach to the economies, lived experiences, and politics of overcrowding among migrants living in private rental housing in London.

Qualifications

PhD in Geography, Queen Mary University of London

Research interests

Overcrowding, migrant housing, room, housing retrofit, housing activism, alternative economies

Teaching interests

Housing precarity, housing in political economy, housing activism, alternative housing

Teaching activities

TRP130 Housing and Home

TRP 335 Housing and Urban Inequalities

TRP 339 Future Cities

TRP 6406 Dissertation