Jenny Preece
Biographic Data
| ID | 336925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Preece |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Preece |
| SIGNATURE | PREECE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9713-5344 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Temporality, emotion management and emergency governance in housing safety crises
This article uses archival methods to explore housing disasters and the governance of emergencies, using two cases – the Ronan Point collapse and the Ledbury Estate post-Grenfell Tower Fire – to locate a contemporary housing safety emergency within longer histories of high-rise unsafety. In placing these discrete events in conversation, the article uncovers commonalities in the power dynamics of naming and governing emergencies, and the circulati…
Up in the air: A history of high-rise Britain
Sefton Park estate in Liverpool may seem an unlikely place for the take-off of cutting-edge internet-based technologies. But in the early 2000s – transmitting from the top of a high-rise tower bloc...
Student Accommodation in Scotland: Home, Emotions and Diverse Experiences
This article explores how emotions intersect with students’ experiences of student accommodation and influence their ability to make a home. The expansion of Higher Education in the UK has led to increased student populations, a housing crisis, and a shift towards financialised purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA). However, little attention has been paid to students' lived experiences. Drawing on interviews with 45 students across three uni…
Valuing the ‘new normal’? Housing markets under Covid-19: Insights from a hybrid hedonic repeat sales model
This study considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sub-national housing markets in Wales, focusing on the contribution of environmental and productivity attributes on house price change. Using a hybrid hedonic/repeat sales framework, we examine trends before, during, and after the pandemic. Initially, higher-quality environmental and productivity attributes were associated with a positive premium in price growth, while lower quality attr…
Housing Inequalities: Definitions, Understandings and Approaches
Housing inequalities are a key focus for housing research, yet how inequalities are defined and understood is rarely discussed. Recognising the potential for weak abstractions to limit the framing and restrict the imagination of research, this article subjects the concept of housing inequalities to analysis, critique and refinement. Through a narrative review, the fundamental assumptions common to different orientations towards housing inequaliti…
Inhabiting unsettlement: Living through building safety remediation works in England
Internationally, a number of façade fires have highlighted significant safety problems in multi-storey residential buildings. England is an exemplar of this problem, with thousands of buildings requiring extensive remediation work to cladding systems and other areas. In many cases, this work will take place whilst homes are occupied. Although construction is an integral part of urban life, there has been little attention to the lived experience o…
New flawed consumers? Problem figuration, responsibility and identities in the English building safety crisis
Particular populations within the UK housing sector (most notably social housing tenants) have been conceptualised as 'flawed' consumers (Bauman, 1998) subject to stigmatisation in governmental and popular discourses for failing to enact the correct forms of consumption within the 'grammars of conduct' of the housing system.These valorise home ownership, prudent financial management and maintaining and enhancing properties.The post-Grenfell cladd…
Unhoming , Trauma and Waiting: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England
In this article we seek to advance our understanding of unhoming in a population not previously perceived to be vulnerable to such processes. We examine the particular forms of trauma in an emergent space of urban marginality, which has arisen through the fracturing of longstanding citizen–state relations and the rupturing of habitual orientations to home in a world that had hitherto been knowable and predictable. In this article we highlight the…
Living in a small home: Expectations, impression management, and compensatory practices
Housing choices are commonly perceived as active and exercised at a fixed point. But individuals continually negotiate these trade-offs through the unfolding of their everyday life, particularly when choices result in forms of living outside normative housing expectations. This article considers trade-offs around house size made by residents of smaller homes in three UK cities—London, Sheffield, and Edinburgh—drawing on in-depth interviews with 2…
Understanding the impacts of the UK ‘cladding scandal’: Leaseholders’ perspectives
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee (2020) concluded that the physical and mental health toll on residents was so severe as to constitute a public health crisis. There is a well-established body of work exploring the role of housing in mental health The UK Cladding Action Group (UKCAG) conducted a survey in April 2020 to explore the mental health impacts on UK residents of properties affected by cladding and other safet…
Urban rhythms in a small home: Covid-19 as a mechanism of exception
The amount of living space we have access to is one manifestation of the unequal distribution of housing resources within societies. The COVID-19 pandemic has required most households to spend more time at home, unmasking inequalities and reigniting longstanding debates about the functionality and experience of smaller homes. Drawing on interviews across three UK cities, this article attends to the changing household routines of individuals livin…
Understanding changing housing aspirations: A review of the evidence
This article reviews the literature on changing housing aspirations and expectations in contemporary housing systems. It argues that there is a conceptual and definitional gap in relation to the term ‘housing aspirations’, as distinct from expectations, preferences, choices and needs. The article sets out working definitions of these terms, before discussing the evidence on changing housing (and related) systems. Emerging research has begun to co…
The affordability of “affordable” housing in England: Conditionality and exclusion in a context of welfare reform
Contemporary debates around affordability have largely focused on homeownership and private renting. This article considers the affordable social rented sector in England, in which reforms to social welfare assistance, reduced security of tenure, and a shift towards midmarket rents, are changing access to ‘affordable’ housing for those on the lowest incomes. \nDrawing on in-depth interviews with housing associations and stakeholders, the article …
Belonging in working-class neighbourhoods: Dis-identification, territorialisation and biographies of people and place
This article draws on repeated, biographical interviews with 18 households to explore how people construct a sense of belonging in two post-industrial neighbourhoods in the ‘ordinary’ urban areas of Grimsby and Sheffield, UK. It argues that experiences of low-paid, precarious work undermine the historic role that employment has played in identity construction for many individuals, and that places perform a crucial function in anchoring people’s l…
Living through continuous displacement: Resisting homeless identities and remaking precarious lives
This article considers how individuals who experience continuous displacement from housing manage the ‘spoiled identity’ of homelessness. The research draws on in-depth, biographical interviews with 39 individuals living in Oxford, a high-cost UK city. All had experienced forms of homelessness in the previous three years. Building on critical debates around experiences of precarity in urban geography, the article explores how individuals construc…
Living Well in NSW Multipurpose Services - not a hospital, but home
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
No-one would sleep if we didn’t have books!”: Understanding shared reading as family practice and family display
Families are pivotal in terms of facilitating children’s language development, including their ability to read. However, to date, there is little research designed to understand how shared reading operates within the realm of everyday family practices. Drawing on data from a study which set out to explore shared reading practices in the home, this article considers reading within the context of the family and everyday family life. In-depth interv…
Immobility and insecure labour markets: An active response to precarious employment
This article explores how people experience and respond to a post-industrial labour market context through residential (im)mobility. Focusing on places that are represented through a range of official measures as ‘declining’, the research explains why people may remain in weaker labour market areas, rather than moving to places that could offer greater employment opportunities. The case study approach focused on two urban neighbourhoods in Englan…
Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain
Lisa McKenzie's account of life in St Ann's, the Nottingham council estate where she has lived for more than 20 years, is a heartfelt and nuanced portrayal of the complexities of getting by in chal
Online Communities: Design, Theory, and Practice
This special thematic section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together nine articles that provide a rich composite of the current research in online communities. The articles cover a range of topics, methodologies, theories and practices. Indirectly they all speak to design since they aim to extend our understanding of the field. The variety shown in these articles illustrates how broad the definition is of this rapidly g…
The top five reasons for lurking: Improving community experiences for everyone
Sociability and usability in online communities: Determining and measuring success
Little attention has focused so far on evaluating the success of online communities. This paper begins to identify some key determinants of sociability and usability that help to determine their success. Determinants of sociability include obvious measures such as the number of participants in a community, the number of messages per unit of time, members' satisfaction, and some less obvious measures such as amount of reciprocity, the number of on…
Empathic communities: Reaching out across the Web
article Free Access Share on Empathic communities: reaching out across the Web Author: Jenny Preece Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore Univ. of Maryland, BaltimoreView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 5Issue 2March/April 1998 pp 32–43https://doi.org/10.1145/274430.274435Published:01 March 1998Publication History 77citation1,537DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations77Total Downloads1,537Last 12 Months64Last 6 weeks7 Get Citation AlertsNew Citat…
Urban rhythms in a small home: Covid-19 as a mechanism of exception
The amount of living space we have access to is one manifestation of the unequal distribution of housing resources within societies. The COVID-19 pandemic has required most households to spend more time at home, unmasking inequalities and reigniting longstanding debates about the functionality and experience of smaller homes. Drawing on interviews across three UK cities, this article attends to the changing household routines of individuals livin…
Online Communities: Design, Theory, and Practice
This special thematic section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together nine articles that provide a rich composite of the current research in online communities. The articles cover a range of topics, methodologies, theories and practices. Indirectly they all speak to design since they aim to extend our understanding of the field. The variety shown in these articles illustrates how broad the definition is of this rapidly g…
Living through continuous displacement: Resisting homeless identities and remaking precarious lives
This article considers how individuals who experience continuous displacement from housing manage the ‘spoiled identity’ of homelessness. The research draws on in-depth, biographical interviews with 39 individuals living in Oxford, a high-cost UK city. All had experienced forms of homelessness in the previous three years. Building on critical debates around experiences of precarity in urban geography, the article explores how individuals construc…
Immobility and insecure labour markets: An active response to precarious employment
This article explores how people experience and respond to a post-industrial labour market context through residential (im)mobility. Focusing on places that are represented through a range of official measures as ‘declining’, the research explains why people may remain in weaker labour market areas, rather than moving to places that could offer greater employment opportunities. The case study approach focused on two urban neighbourhoods in Englan…
Belonging in working-class neighbourhoods: Dis-identification, territorialisation and biographies of people and place
This article draws on repeated, biographical interviews with 18 households to explore how people construct a sense of belonging in two post-industrial neighbourhoods in the ‘ordinary’ urban areas of Grimsby and Sheffield, UK. It argues that experiences of low-paid, precarious work undermine the historic role that employment has played in identity construction for many individuals, and that places perform a crucial function in anchoring people’s l…
The affordability of “affordable” housing in England: Conditionality and exclusion in a context of welfare reform
Contemporary debates around affordability have largely focused on homeownership and private renting. This article considers the affordable social rented sector in England, in which reforms to social welfare assistance, reduced security of tenure, and a shift towards midmarket rents, are changing access to ‘affordable’ housing for those on the lowest incomes. \nDrawing on in-depth interviews with housing associations and stakeholders, the article …
No-one would sleep if we didn’t have books!”: Understanding shared reading as family practice and family display
Families are pivotal in terms of facilitating children’s language development, including their ability to read. However, to date, there is little research designed to understand how shared reading operates within the realm of everyday family practices. Drawing on data from a study which set out to explore shared reading practices in the home, this article considers reading within the context of the family and everyday family life. In-depth interv…
Living in a small home: Expectations, impression management, and compensatory practices
Housing choices are commonly perceived as active and exercised at a fixed point. But individuals continually negotiate these trade-offs through the unfolding of their everyday life, particularly when choices result in forms of living outside normative housing expectations. This article considers trade-offs around house size made by residents of smaller homes in three UK cities—London, Sheffield, and Edinburgh—drawing on in-depth interviews with 2…
Unhoming , Trauma and Waiting: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England
In this article we seek to advance our understanding of unhoming in a population not previously perceived to be vulnerable to such processes. We examine the particular forms of trauma in an emergent space of urban marginality, which has arisen through the fracturing of longstanding citizen–state relations and the rupturing of habitual orientations to home in a world that had hitherto been knowable and predictable. In this article we highlight the…
New flawed consumers? Problem figuration, responsibility and identities in the English building safety crisis
Particular populations within the UK housing sector (most notably social housing tenants) have been conceptualised as 'flawed' consumers (Bauman, 1998) subject to stigmatisation in governmental and popular discourses for failing to enact the correct forms of consumption within the 'grammars of conduct' of the housing system.These valorise home ownership, prudent financial management and maintaining and enhancing properties.The post-Grenfell cladd…
Empathic communities: Reaching out across the Web
article Free Access Share on Empathic communities: reaching out across the Web Author: Jenny Preece Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore Univ. of Maryland, BaltimoreView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 5Issue 2March/April 1998 pp 32–43https://doi.org/10.1145/274430.274435Published:01 March 1998Publication History 77citation1,537DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations77Total Downloads1,537Last 12 Months64Last 6 weeks7 Get Citation AlertsNew Citat…
Sociability and usability in online communities: Determining and measuring success
Little attention has focused so far on evaluating the success of online communities. This paper begins to identify some key determinants of sociability and usability that help to determine their success. Determinants of sociability include obvious measures such as the number of participants in a community, the number of messages per unit of time, members' satisfaction, and some less obvious measures such as amount of reciprocity, the number of on…
The top five reasons for lurking: Improving community experiences for everyone
Online Communities: Design, Theory, and Practice
This special thematic section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together nine articles that provide a rich composite of the current research in online communities. The articles cover a range of topics, methodologies, theories and practices. Indirectly they all speak to design since they aim to extend our understanding of the field. The variety shown in these articles illustrates how broad the definition is of this rapidly g…
Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain
Lisa McKenzie's account of life in St Ann's, the Nottingham council estate where she has lived for more than 20 years, is a heartfelt and nuanced portrayal of the complexities of getting by in chal
Living Well in NSW Multipurpose Services - not a hospital, but home
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
No-one would sleep if we didn’t have books!”: Understanding shared reading as family practice and family display
Families are pivotal in terms of facilitating children’s language development, including their ability to read. However, to date, there is little research designed to understand how shared reading operates within the realm of everyday family practices. Drawing on data from a study which set out to explore shared reading practices in the home, this article considers reading within the context of the family and everyday family life. In-depth interv…
Immobility and insecure labour markets: An active response to precarious employment
This article explores how people experience and respond to a post-industrial labour market context through residential (im)mobility. Focusing on places that are represented through a range of official measures as ‘declining’, the research explains why people may remain in weaker labour market areas, rather than moving to places that could offer greater employment opportunities. The case study approach focused on two urban neighbourhoods in Englan…
Understanding changing housing aspirations: A review of the evidence
This article reviews the literature on changing housing aspirations and expectations in contemporary housing systems. It argues that there is a conceptual and definitional gap in relation to the term ‘housing aspirations’, as distinct from expectations, preferences, choices and needs. The article sets out working definitions of these terms, before discussing the evidence on changing housing (and related) systems. Emerging research has begun to co…
The affordability of “affordable” housing in England: Conditionality and exclusion in a context of welfare reform
Contemporary debates around affordability have largely focused on homeownership and private renting. This article considers the affordable social rented sector in England, in which reforms to social welfare assistance, reduced security of tenure, and a shift towards midmarket rents, are changing access to ‘affordable’ housing for those on the lowest incomes. \nDrawing on in-depth interviews with housing associations and stakeholders, the article …
Belonging in working-class neighbourhoods: Dis-identification, territorialisation and biographies of people and place
This article draws on repeated, biographical interviews with 18 households to explore how people construct a sense of belonging in two post-industrial neighbourhoods in the ‘ordinary’ urban areas of Grimsby and Sheffield, UK. It argues that experiences of low-paid, precarious work undermine the historic role that employment has played in identity construction for many individuals, and that places perform a crucial function in anchoring people’s l…
Living through continuous displacement: Resisting homeless identities and remaking precarious lives
This article considers how individuals who experience continuous displacement from housing manage the ‘spoiled identity’ of homelessness. The research draws on in-depth, biographical interviews with 39 individuals living in Oxford, a high-cost UK city. All had experienced forms of homelessness in the previous three years. Building on critical debates around experiences of precarity in urban geography, the article explores how individuals construc…
Understanding the impacts of the UK ‘cladding scandal’: Leaseholders’ perspectives
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee (2020) concluded that the physical and mental health toll on residents was so severe as to constitute a public health crisis. There is a well-established body of work exploring the role of housing in mental health The UK Cladding Action Group (UKCAG) conducted a survey in April 2020 to explore the mental health impacts on UK residents of properties affected by cladding and other safet…
Urban rhythms in a small home: Covid-19 as a mechanism of exception
The amount of living space we have access to is one manifestation of the unequal distribution of housing resources within societies. The COVID-19 pandemic has required most households to spend more time at home, unmasking inequalities and reigniting longstanding debates about the functionality and experience of smaller homes. Drawing on interviews across three UK cities, this article attends to the changing household routines of individuals livin…
Unhoming , Trauma and Waiting: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England
In this article we seek to advance our understanding of unhoming in a population not previously perceived to be vulnerable to such processes. We examine the particular forms of trauma in an emergent space of urban marginality, which has arisen through the fracturing of longstanding citizen–state relations and the rupturing of habitual orientations to home in a world that had hitherto been knowable and predictable. In this article we highlight the…
Living in a small home: Expectations, impression management, and compensatory practices
Housing choices are commonly perceived as active and exercised at a fixed point. But individuals continually negotiate these trade-offs through the unfolding of their everyday life, particularly when choices result in forms of living outside normative housing expectations. This article considers trade-offs around house size made by residents of smaller homes in three UK cities—London, Sheffield, and Edinburgh—drawing on in-depth interviews with 2…
New flawed consumers? Problem figuration, responsibility and identities in the English building safety crisis
Particular populations within the UK housing sector (most notably social housing tenants) have been conceptualised as 'flawed' consumers (Bauman, 1998) subject to stigmatisation in governmental and popular discourses for failing to enact the correct forms of consumption within the 'grammars of conduct' of the housing system.These valorise home ownership, prudent financial management and maintaining and enhancing properties.The post-Grenfell cladd…
Valuing the ‘new normal’? Housing markets under Covid-19: Insights from a hybrid hedonic repeat sales model
This study considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sub-national housing markets in Wales, focusing on the contribution of environmental and productivity attributes on house price change. Using a hybrid hedonic/repeat sales framework, we examine trends before, during, and after the pandemic. Initially, higher-quality environmental and productivity attributes were associated with a positive premium in price growth, while lower quality attr…
Housing Inequalities: Definitions, Understandings and Approaches
Housing inequalities are a key focus for housing research, yet how inequalities are defined and understood is rarely discussed. Recognising the potential for weak abstractions to limit the framing and restrict the imagination of research, this article subjects the concept of housing inequalities to analysis, critique and refinement. Through a narrative review, the fundamental assumptions common to different orientations towards housing inequaliti…
Inhabiting unsettlement: Living through building safety remediation works in England
Internationally, a number of façade fires have highlighted significant safety problems in multi-storey residential buildings. England is an exemplar of this problem, with thousands of buildings requiring extensive remediation work to cladding systems and other areas. In many cases, this work will take place whilst homes are occupied. Although construction is an integral part of urban life, there has been little attention to the lived experience o…
Temporality, emotion management and emergency governance in housing safety crises
This article uses archival methods to explore housing disasters and the governance of emergencies, using two cases – the Ronan Point collapse and the Ledbury Estate post-Grenfell Tower Fire – to locate a contemporary housing safety emergency within longer histories of high-rise unsafety. In placing these discrete events in conversation, the article uncovers commonalities in the power dynamics of naming and governing emergencies, and the circulati…
Up in the air: A history of high-rise Britain
Sefton Park estate in Liverpool may seem an unlikely place for the take-off of cutting-edge internet-based technologies. But in the early 2000s – transmitting from the top of a high-rise tower bloc...
Student Accommodation in Scotland: Home, Emotions and Diverse Experiences
This article explores how emotions intersect with students’ experiences of student accommodation and influence their ability to make a home. The expansion of Higher Education in the UK has led to increased student populations, a housing crisis, and a shift towards financialised purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA). However, little attention has been paid to students' lived experiences. Drawing on interviews with 45 students across three uni…
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