Richard is Professor of Housing and Chair of Political and Economic Geographies at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on housing processes as a driver of social, economic and urban transformations in Europe and Pacific Asia. He is currently Editor of Palgrave Macmillan's 'Contemporary City' book series and Chairs the board of the 'International Journal of Housing Policy' (where he was formerly Editor-in-Chief).  After graduating from Nottingham Univeristy and Nottingham Trent Univeristy (UK) in the 1990s, Richard became Doctorate and then Postdoctoral Fellow at Kobe University (Japan) in the early 2000s before moving to TU Delft (Netherlands) in 2006 and then the University of Amsterdam in 2010, becoming full Professor in 2017 and Chair in 2021. He is also currenlty Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Housing Research at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, and was recently Distinguished Professor at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. He has previously held visiting Professorships at the University of Birmingham (UK), National University (Singapore) and Kyung Hee University (South Korea). His 2008 monograph, 'The Ideology of Home Ownership', is one of the most cited in the field of Housing Studies. His most recent book (2023) is titled 'Families, Housing and Property Wealth in a Neoliberal World'.

Expertise and research fields 

• Housing Systems
• Urban Transformations
• Assets
• Real Estate
• Cities
• Japan
• East Asia
• Welfare regimes

Activities

• Book Series Editor, The Contemporary City, Palgrave Books
• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Housing Policy (2013-2019)
• Advisory Board, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)
• Associate Researcher, University of Melbourne, Australia, Centre of Research Excellence: Healthy Housing  
• Editorial Advisory Board, Housing Studies (Journal)
• Editorial Board, Critical Housing Analysis (Journal)
• International Committee, Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC)
• Management Board, International Journal of Housing Policy (Journal)

Teaching

Richard Ronald is the former director of the Research Masters in Urban Studies and the Urban Studies Summer Programme. He contributes to various Master's and Bachelor's programmes in Social Geography and Urban Planning. He has previously lectured in Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK, on Contemporary Japan at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and on Housing and Urban Studies in the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft (Netherlands). Richard has also taught at Nottingham Trent University, the Open University and the Worker's Educational Association in the UK. 

He currently teaches and coordinates the following courses: 

• Urban Planning - Building the City (Bachelor's Sociale geografie en planologie)
• Urban Studies in Practice (Research Master's Urban Studies)
• Thesis Supervisor (Master's in Urban and Regional Planning)

PhD Students

Richard has supervised a number of succesful PhD projects including:

• Housing Affordability, (Re)regulation & Reform in Amsterdam, New York & Vienna: Justin Kadi is now Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge (UK)
• Post-Crisis Restructuring in Access, Exclusion & Exposure to Housing Markets: Rowan Arundel is now Assistant Professor (Marie Curie & NWO Fellow), University of Amsterdam
• Family Housing Property & Household Welfare Strategies - Intergenerational Solidarity in Different Welfare Regime Contexts, Oana Druta, now Assistant Professor, Technical University of Eindhoven
• Migrants & Public Housing Reform in Urban China: Jing Zhou, now Assistant Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology

He is currently supervising PhD projects on:

• Closing the Housing Gap: A Spotlight on Intergenerational Inequalities, Amber Howard (with the University of Melbourne (Australian Research Council Discovery Grant))
• Housing inequality and Young People's Housing Practices in China, Junru Ciu (funded by the China Scholarship Council)
• Nieuwe huisvestingsvormen, tijdelijk wonen en de stimuleringsaanpak flexwonen [Temporary and Flexible Housing], Jolien Groot (Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving [Dutch Environment Agency])