‘We all live in a Robbie Fowler house’: The geographies of the buy to let market in the UK

‘We all live in a Robbie Fowler house’: The geographies of the buy to let market in the UK, by Andrew Leyshon and Shaun French.

This is the final, revised version of a paper that is to be published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. It is based on research funded by the Financial Services Research Forum.

The paper can be accessed here.

Podcast: ‘We all live in a Robbie Fowler house’

You can listen to me discussing the UK buy to let market with Andrew Burden in the latest University of Nottingham podcast.  It is based on research undertaken with my colleague Dr Shaun French and funded by the Financial Services Research Forum.  The research will shortly be published as an end of award  report for the Forum and as a paper – ‘We all live in a Robbie Fowler house’: the geographies of the buy to let market in the UK – in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations in the summer of 2009 (see post above).  The podcast can be accessed by clicking here.

You can also download a recording of me giving a much earlier version of the paper at a workshop on The Political Economy of the Sub-prime Crisis, held at the University of Warwick in September 2008, via iTunes.   To access the file, go to the iTunes Store and enter ‘Buy-to-Let, Financialization and the Geographies of Risk’ in the search dialogue box in the top right hand corner.  The download is free of charge.  (This search should also enable you to click through to recordings of all the academic papers presented at this workshop).

You can also, for a limited time only, also catch an interview I did on the research with BBC Radio Nottingham, which is available on the BBC iPlayer. Click here, select 11/05/09 and then move forward to 2:41:40 (I’m sandwiched between an item on the availability of hand washing gels in hospitals and the best places for men to meet women … )

A Very Geographical Crisis: the making and breaking of the 2007-08 financial crisis

This is the final revised version of a paper written with Shaun French and Nigel Thrift which has been accepted by the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society and is due to be published later in 2009.  This is the version of the paper presented at the Financialization, Space and Place Workshop, held in London on 23rd April 2009.

To access the paper, click here.