Dr Yael Arbell
Research Associate, Centre for Regional Economic & Social Research (CRESR)
Summary
Dr Yael Arbell is a Research Associate at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research. Yael is interested in housing, communities and sustainability.
About
I am a Research Associate and work with the Housing and the Sustainable Futures clusters. I specialise in qualitative methods and interested in a critical realist approach to research. Prior to joining I completed a PhD in Human Geography at the University of Leeds (2021), focusing on community-led housing in the UK. My research interests are broad and include housing, diverse economies, racial justice, community-led projects, just transitions and other social aspects of sustainable projects.
Research
- Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research
2023-2024 Decarbonisation solutions for off grid communities, Northern Gas Network, Northern Powergrid, Energy Innovation Centre. Role: Member of research team.
2022-2023 BAME Community-led Housing: Barriers, Opportunities and Good Practice. Role: Project Manager.
2022-2023 Community Improvement Districts: learning and policy recommendations, Power to Change. Role: Member of research team.
2022-2023 Housing 21: A new model for inclusive cohousing?, Nuffield Foundation. Role: Project Director.
2022 Affordability of Community Led Housing, Nationwide. Role: Member of research team.
2019-2023 Homes in Community Hands evaluation, Power to Change. Role: Member of research team.
2019-2022 Rough Sleeping Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant (RSDATG) Evaluation, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. Role: Member of research team.
2020-2021 Understanding and engaging with high consuming households: energy, transport, food, Sheffield Hallam University. Role: Member of research team.
2019-2021 Fulfilling Lives, NPC. Role: Member of research team.
2018-2023 Evaluation of Black Thrive, Healthwatch Lambeth. Role: Member of research team.
Publications
Journal articles
Arbell, Y. (2023). The Circle of Commoning: Conceptualising Commoning through the Case of Community-Led Housing. International Journal of the Commons, 17 (1), 228-242. http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1210
Arbell, Y. (2021). Beyond Affordability: English Cohousing Communities as White Middle-Class Spaces. Housing, Theory and Society. http://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2021.1998217
Arbell, Y. (2021). "A place that is different from the usual capitalist world”: the potential of community-led housing as safe and just spaces. Spatial Justice, 16. https://www.jssj.org/article/un-lieu-different-du-monde-capitaliste-habituel-le-potentiel-de-lhabitat-participatif-en-tant-que-safe-space-et-espace-de-justice-sociale/?lang=en
Arbell, Y., Middlemiss, L., & Chatterton, P. (2020). Contested subjectivities in a UK housing cooperative: old hippies and Thatcher’s children negotiating the commons. Geoforum, 110, 58-66. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.01.017
Arbell, Y. (2017). Procedural liberalism in the service of ethnocracy and as a space for resistance: the case of Dahmash. Geography Research Forum, 36. https://grf.bgu.ac.il/index.php/GRF/article/view/498
Conference papers
Hawkins, A., Ambrose, A., Parkes, S., Arbell, Y., Garcia, A.C., & Rafalowicz-Campbell, M. (2022). High consumers of energy and resources and the work of being wealthy: towards a research agenda. In ECEEE Summer Study 2022, Hyeres, France, 6 June 2022 - 11 June 2022. ECEEE: https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2022/1-dynamics-of-consumption-less-is-more/high-consumers-of-energy-and-resources-and-the-work-of-being-wealthy-towards-a-research-agenda/
Book chapters
Ambrose, A., Castano Garcia, A., & Arbell, Y. (2024). Alternatives to justice for a thriving transition. In Horne, R., Ambrose, A., Walker, G., & Nelson, A. (Eds.) Post Carbon Inclusion: transitions built on justice. (pp. 70-83). Bristol: Bristol University Press: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/post-carbon-inclusion
Ambrose, A., Castano Garcia, A., Hawkins, A., Parkes, S., & Arbell, Y. (2024). Uneven consumption and the work of being a high consumer. In Horne, R., Ambrose, A., Walker, G., & Nelson, A. (Eds.) Post Carbon Inclusion: transitions built on justice. (pp. 174-188). Bristol: Bristol University Press: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/post-carbon-inclusion
Ambrose, A., Hawkins, A., Parkes, S., Castano Garcia, A., Arbell, Y., & Speake, B. (2024). Uneven Consumption and the Work of Being a High Consumer. In Post Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice. Bristol University Press
Reports
Hendrickson, C., Baptiste, H., Moore, T., & Arbell, Y. (2024). Community-led housing for all. Sheffield Hallam University, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/community-led-housing-for-all
Mccarthy, L., Arbell, Y., Ambrose, A., Ashworth, T., Lannon, S., Raslan, R., & Schaefer, E. (2024). Decarbonising Off Grid Homes: A Rapid Evidence Review. Sheffield Hallam University. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/decarbonising-off-grid-homes-evidence-review
Arbell, Y., & Archer, T. (2023). Housing 21: a more inclusive model of cohousing? Findings from a one-year study of a Housing 21 cohousing project. Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/housing-21-a-more-inclusive-model-of-cohousing
Dobson, J., Arbell, Y., Swade, K., & Graham, K. (2023). Community improvement districts pilot programme: final report. Power to Change. https://www.powertochange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/88-PTC-CID-report-V3.pdf
Archer, T., Arbell, Y., Moore, T., Mullins, D., & Rafalowicz-Campbell, M. (2022). Homes in community hands: year three evaluation report. Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/homes-in-community-hands-year-three-evaluation-report
Archer, T., Moore, T., Mullins, D., & Arbell, Y. (2021). Homes in Community Hands: Year Two evaluation report. Sheffield Hallam University, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/homes-in-community-hands-year-two-evaluation-report
Theses / Dissertations
Arbell, Y. (2021). Commoners and commoning in neoliberal times: A critical realist study of English community-led housing. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Chatterton, P., & Middlemiss, L.
Other publications
Arbell, Y. (2016). A Review of "The re-emergence of cohousing in Europe", Edited by Lidewij Tummers. Informa UK Limited: http://doi.org/10.1080/14616718.2016.1228247