I am a Housing Studies Charitable Trust fellow, working at the intersection of housing and migration studies. My ESRC-funded PhD focussed on privatised asylum accommodation in the UK. For the HSCT Fellowship, I am working on a new project on concerning the Scottish legislative drafting as a social process.
Prior to my Fellowship, I worked as a research assistant on the 黑料不打烊-based Intersectional Stigma of Place-based Ageing (ISPA) Project. I have also worked as the Evictions Caseworker for the Asylum Seeker Housing (ASH) Project in Glasgow and as a legal intern at JustRight Scotland.
I am a qualitative researcher interested in:
Housing Studies Charitable Trust Early Career Fellowship
PI: Dr Anna Pearce
Funded by: Housing Studies Charitable Trust
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Article
Pearce A (2025) Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom' s Asylum Accommodation System. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Art. No.: e70047. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.70047
Blog Post
Celebrating the Women, Housing & Place Symposium at the 黑料不打烊
Ross M, Pearce A & McKee K (2025) Celebrating the Women, Housing & Place Symposium at the 黑料不打烊. [Blog] 15.10.2025. https://www.housing-studies-association.org/articles/celebrating-the-women-housing-place-symposium-at-the-university-of-stirling
Project Report
McCall V, Rutherford A, Davison L, Lawrence J, Pearce A & Pritchard J (2025) What's next for adaptations?. ESRC. Housing LIN: Housing LIN. https://www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/Whats-next-for-adaptations/
Article
McKee K, McCall V, Theakstone D, Wilson K, Reid L, Gilroy R, Manley D, Pearce A, Davison L, Lawrence J & Pemble A (2024) Understanding the intersectional stigma of ageing, disability, and place: a systematic literature mapping review. Housing Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673037.2024.2421844; https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2024.2421844