My house or our home? Transitions into sole home ownership in British couples

Our Ubiquitous Computing Home Inside: A Practical Approach Emerging into House and Home

To make practical ubiquitous computing environment for everyday activities especially for house and home, the environment has to be proactively managed by the users at home themselves. This paper introduces an “Our Ubiquitous Computing Home Inside Project” and outlines some of our usercentered information architecture and interaction technique to provide practical ubiquitous computing environme...

House prices and home ownership : A cohort analysis

England has very volatile house prices. Using survey data spanning multiple house-price cycles over nearly forty years, we document the association between house prices and homeownership at age thirty. We then use synthetic cohort methods to assess whether differences in early ownership rates persist in later life. We find that ownership rates at age thirty have varied substantially, with a sig...

Determinants · of Home Ownership

Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into First Home Ownership

Finding our way home

Eleven years ago, my wife and I lost our son Callum to cancer. He had just celebrated his 3 birthday at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto where he was undergoing his 3 “rescue” stem cell transplant for his 6 and final chemotherapy cycle, following the surgical removal of a brain tumor. The image above is a plaster imprint of Callum’s untouched foot, and was created on November 11, 2006 – just momen...