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 drafting and conceptualization of Scottish housing legislation and legislation closure faced by migrants.
Prior to my Fellowship, I worked as a research assistant on the Stirling-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
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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