Mark Hammond
Senior Lecturer and Deputy Research Lead, Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Dr Mark Hammond is Deputy Research Lead and Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture, UK. His research focuses on the intersections between architecture and urban ageing within the home, community and city, with a specific interest in housing inequality and spatial justice. Dr Hammond has a keen interest in translating research into policy and practice, working closely with local government, housing developers and architects through an ongoing collaboration with the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub. From 2022-2025, Dr Hammond was Principal Investigator on the ‘Co-Creating Age-Friendly Social Housing’ programme, collaborating with older residents and housing providers within Greater Manchester to create a series of innovative projects to support ageing in place.
Link
M.Hammond@mmu.ac.uk
Relevant Projects
- Age-Friendly Old Moat
- Rightsizing
- Age-Friendly Victoria North
- Secondment to GM Ageing Hub / Design for Life pocketbook
- GM Housing Planning and Ageing group / Creating Age-Friendly Developments guide
- Co-Creating Age-Friendly Social Housing
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Rightsizing: Reframing older people’s housing choices
The rightsizing project responded to the observation that a potentially very large number of older people were living in unsuitable accommodation for later life or had an expressed preference to move home but very few (<4%) every year did actually move house and of those less than half moved into smaller properties i.e it is incorrect to assume that older people seek to ‘downsize’.
