is Professor of Housing, Society and Space at the UvA. His research, focusing on housing in relation to social, economic and urban transformations in Europe and East Asia, has been funded by, the European Research Council, the Australian Research Council, The Dutch Ministry of the Interior, the Japan Foundation and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He has been an Honorary, Visiting or Distinguished Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK), National University Singapore (Singapore), Kyung Hee University (South Korea), and the Open University of Hong Kong (China). He is the current Editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘Contemporary City’ book series and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Housing Policy. Richard sits on various funding and scientific advisory boards in Australia, Canada, Poland, Sweden and the UK. He originally graduated from Nottingham University and Nottingham Trent University in the UK and was a Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow at Kobe University in Japan.
Richard is director of the Research Masters in Urban Studies and the Urban Studies Summer Programme. He also contributes to various Masters and Bachelors programmes in Social Geography and Urban Planning, and specifically coordinates a number of courses on housing markets, policy and practice. He has previously lectured in Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK, on Contemporary Japan at the University of Leiden and on Housing and Urban Studies in the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft, the Netherlands. Richard has also taught at Nottingham Trent University, the Open University and the Worker's Educational Association in the UK .
Richard has recently supervised a number of succesful PhD projects on:
He is also interested in supervising students for Masters and PhD projects on:
Ronald, R.&Elsinga, M (eds) 2012. Beyond Home Ownership: Housing, Welfare and Society
Ronald, R.&Alexy, A. (eds) 2011. Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transfromation
Ronald, R. 2008. The Ideology of Home Ownership: Homeowner Soceities and the Role of Housing
Hirayama, Y.&Ronald, R. (eds) 2007. Housing and Social Transition in Japan
Housing Markets and Welfare State Transformations:
How Family Housing Property Is Reshaping Welfare Regimes