Successful housing prosecutions

As a seaside town facing multiple challenges. Thanet council’s private sector housing team have been pioneering in their approach to their local private sector housing conditions. They have published some of their work, for example in Environmental Health and Housing and their two case studies cover Improving housing and health with grant funding (p. 228) …

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The environmental health housing workforce

We will soon be presenting at the Housing Studies Association 2022 Conference on the PRS regulatory workforce, based in part on our experience of delivering our housing CPD module and our forthcoming book, written by many of our excellent tutors. As part of our commitment to training the PRS workforce, we are now recruiting to …

Regulating the Privately Rented Housing Sector

We are pleased to announce that our book is due imminently and you can receive a discount using the code on the attached flyer. stewart-and-moffat-authorflyerDownload We very much hope that you enjoy our book and it helps support better regulation. Jill and Russell

More news on environmental health and housing

It's exciting to see that housing and health is really gaining traction, not just in more understanding of the links between them, but how to effectively intervene, which is where environmental health really comes in. This new publication from the House of Commons which we will add to our housing resources page helps show that …

New housing book

We are excited to announce that we have another book on the way. This time it's on the privately rented housing sector and putting evidence into practice. We are delighted that so many collegues have willingly invested their time in writing their excellent chapters and we are very much looking forward to seeing our book …

New publication: EH role in older people’s housing

These past 18 months have been immensely tough both personally and professionally, but today we have some good news to share about our new environmental health publication. Before the pandemic, we secured some funding from ALEHM towards our study exploring the housing needs of older people living in London, with a particular focus on the …

New Housing Podcasts: Part 1

In recent years I`ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Jill Stewart on some written resource and in 2020 I started recording a few podcasts and video learning resources for EH students with Jill. We both wanted to share our observations and interpretations of a wide range housing literature that we felt was relevant to …

Podcast on EH Global workforce

As part of University of the West of England's (UWE) Public Health masters programme, one module topic session covers the global work force. To compliment this session, I was tasked to record a short session on the development of the Env. Health global workforce. Out went calls of help to national and international EH associations …

Special Issue of Perspectives in Public Health in November 2021 – publishing opportuity

We're excited to let you know that we will be publishing a Special Issue of Perspectives in Public Health in November 2021 called 'Climate Change and Health: Tackling Global Inequalities'.    This will be guest edited by Professor Selena Gray, Emerita Professor of Public Health University of the West of England, Bristol, Professor Diarmuid O’Donovan, Professor of …

Security in private renting

This could surely be the best Christmas present for so many renters: The CIEH say that: "19 leading organisations supporting private renters have formed a new Renters Reform Coalition. Made up of national housing charities, campaigners, renters unions, think tanks and (the CIEH), the Coalition is calling on the Government to use the upcoming Renters’ …