Celebrating the Women, Housing & Place Symposium at the University of Stirling

Citation

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

Abstract
On Friday 12 September, the University of Stirling welcomed researchers, practitioners, and campaigners to campus for a one-day symposium on Women, Housing & Place. The free-to-attend event created a space for critical debate about how gender, housing and place intersect, and how policy and practice might better respond to these challenges. Organised by Professor Kim McKee (University of Stirling), and Co-Hosts Dr Anna Pearce (University of Stirling), Dr Jenny Preece (University of Sheffield) and Dr Mhairi-Jean Ross (University of Glasgow), the symposium set out to foreground the intersectional experiences of women, focusing not only on their heightened risk of housing precarity, but also their leadership, mutual support and activism.