Education: BA (Hons), Business Studies, CNAA 1974; MSc, Social Policy and Planning, London School of Economics 1978; PhD, Corporate Planning as an Approach to Resource Allocation in the Social Services, London School of Economics 1983

Career: David Clapham has been Professor of Housing at Cardiff University since 1994. He began his academic career as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Research, University of Glasgow in 1982, and as Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director of the Centre from 1985 until 1991, when he was promoted to Senior Lecturer, and later to Reader in 1993. Professor Clapham’s research interests cover a wide range of housing issues, including housing management, tenant participation and housing cooperatives, community care and housing for older people, homelessness, Eastern European housing systems, comparative housing analysis, social exclusion, and housing policy in Wales. David Clapham is a member of the National Housing Consultative Forum for Wales, and was Chairman of the National Assembly for Wales Task Group on housing vulnerable people in 2000 and of the Communities First Partnership in the Vale of Glamorgan from 2002 until 2004. He has been editor of Housing, Theory & Society (see url below) since 2004.

Publications include: numerous articles in professional journals on the application of social theory to housing and housing policy

Contact details: Address: Room 2.80, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA, Wales; Tel: +44 (0)29 2087-6181; Fax: +44 (0)29 2087-4640; Email: ClaphamDF@cardiff.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/cplan/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14036096.asp/ .