Thursday 13 November 2025, 5pm - 7.30pm
Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
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Join us for the next cross-disciplinary, cross-period Rent Cultures Network event on Thursday 13 November at 5 pm in TORCH, The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Katherine Brickell (King’s College London) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University) will discuss their new book Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (Agenda Publishing, 2025), which examines how austerity, welfare reform and housing policy are driving family homelessness in Britain. We're delighted that Christina de Bellaigue (History) and Josefina Jaureguiberry Mondion (Geography) will join the panel.
Related reading group: Thursday 6 November, 5:00–6:30 pm, School of Geography and the Environment.
Readings: Debt Trap Nation, Chapters 1–3.
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About the speakers:
Professor Katherine Brickell is Professor of Urban Studies at King’s College London. Her research spans feminist and critical urban geography, focusing on housing, home, and everyday inequalities in the UK and internationally. She has written widely on the politics of domestic life, financialisation, and care.
Dr Mel Nowicki is Reader in Urban Geography at Oxford Brookes University and Visiting Reader at King’s College London. Her research centres on the geographies of housing, family homelessness, and temporary accommodation in the UK, exploring how housing insecurity reshapes everyday life, care, and belonging.
Accesibility: We aim to make this event as accessible as possible. Please contact rentcultures@torch.ox.ac.uk if you have any access needs or questions.
Rent Cultures Network, TORCH Networks
