Professor Phil Brown

Speaker

Professor Phil Brown is Strategic Lead for Research and Professor of Housing and Communities in the School of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Huddersfield, UK. With a background in housing policy, energy justice, and the social determinants of health, his research explores the intersections between retrofit, inequality, and place-based transformation. He is an academic partner on an Innovate UK-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership focused on decarbonising social housing through person-centred retrofit. 

Phil’s work engages policy and practice audiences, drawing on critical policy analysis, co-production, and narrative methods to understand and influence systems change. He is committed to advancing research that delivers real-world impact in response to the climate and housing crises. 

He is a Board Member of the UK Housing Studies Association and has served as a Special Advisor to the UK Parliament.