I am a Housing Studies Charitable Trust Fellow, working at the localised intersection of law, housing and migration studies, in the context of planetary scale warming and its associated impacts, such as increased migration and conflict. 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 Scottish legislative drafting of new housing statute as a social practice. I am also undertaking a new collaborative project with Barrel Organ theatre, which explores people's experiences of space and place in localities which host asylum accommodation.
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
Blog Post
Celebrating the Women, Housing & Place Symposium at the University of Stirling
Ross M, Pearce A & McKee K (2025) Celebrating the Women, Housing & Place Symposium at the University of Stirling. [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
