Professor Brian Jacobs has won a prestigious Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship. Brian has previously taught Public Policy in PAIS and has an interest in mass urban housing. He has extensive experience of working with the public and private sectors including local government.

The Leverhulme Emeritus project will provide a policy study of innovative approaches to the provision of prefabricated (offsite and "pop-up") housing in London. The context is the housing crisis in the capital and the urgent quest by the Mayor for new approaches to mass housing provision and resident involvement in planning.

The project, which is due to start on 1 September 2017 and will last for 24 months, holds the exciting prospect of networking with leading edge public and private sector innovators, a possible link to the Warwick University London Centre and contact with the Ostrom Centre at Indiana University who are using the same analytical framework.

Very many congratulations to Brian on this outstanding achievement, which means that PAIS is soon to hold 8 live awards with The Leverhulme Trust, spanning their Early Career Fellowship, Research Fellowship, Philip Leverhulme Prize, Major Research Fellowship, and Emeritus Fellowship schemes.

Further details on these and other projects in PAIS can be found here: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/projects/