The Zemiology of Student Housing in Dublin

2015年发表的一份高等教育局报告发现，爱尔兰学生的住宿严重不足（Fitzgerald, 2017），都柏林的学生住宿尤其被认为处于“绝对危机”水平（McSorely, 2014）。进一步的数据表明，都柏林的学生床位仅满足在那里学习的学生的12.2%（莱坊，Comiskey, 2017）。爱尔兰学生住房市场不仅出现了严重的住房供应不足，而且对价格合理的住房的需求也很大，都柏林是爱尔兰学生生活成本最高的城市。本研究建立在对都柏林学生住房的研究基础上，旨在通过利用社会危害的角度来探索都柏林住房危机中学生的经历，从而推进学生地理学。这项研究旨在推动新兴的地热学领域的发展，将学生置于研究的核心，并在此过程中为地理研究中的社会危害方法提出了意见。学生的经历往往被忽视，而倾向于其他更突出的声音，例如：房东（Munro和Livingston， 2011）；当地企业主（查特顿和荷兰，2003年）；房地产经纪人和议会工作人员（Allinson, 2006）；大学教职员工（Chatterton, 2000）和当地非学生居民（Hubbard, 2008）。然而，被忽视的学生的声音仍然是这项研究背后的主要推动力。通过对都柏林四所大学的学生进行深入研究，本研究旨在解决现有文献中的差距，并产生与大学和高等教育机构、政策制定者和房地产开发商等相关的见解。这项研究将结合多个相互关联的文献，在学生地理学、城市变化、住房研究和地形学之间建立新的联系。

A Higher Education Authority report, published in 2015, found that there was a serious deficit inaccommodation for students in Ireland (Fitzgerald, 2017), with student accommodation in Dublin inparticular cited as being at 'absolute crisis' levels (McSorely, 2014). Further figures have suggested thatstudent beds in Dublin cater for only 12.2% of students studying there (Knight Frank, in Comiskey, 2017).Not only has the Irish student housing market seen a huge under-supply of available housing, there isenormous demand for that which is affordable, with Dublin the most expensive city for students inIreland to live.Founded upon a study of student housing in Dublin, this research aims to advance student geographiesby utilising a social harm perspective to explore the experiences of students within Dublin's housingcrisis. The research aims to advance the burgeoning field of zemiology, placing students at the heart ofthe research, and in doing so arguing for a social harm approach within geographical studies. Theexperiences of students often remain unnoticed in favour of other, more prominent voices, such as:landlords (Munro and Livingston, 2011); local business owners (Chatterton and Hollands, 2003); estateagents and council workers (Allinson, 2006); university staff (Chatterton, 2000), and non-student localresidents (Hubbard, 2008). It is the neglected student voice, however, which remains the central driverbehind this research. Through in-depth research with students across four universities in Dublin, thisresearch aims to address the gap in existing literature and produce insights relevant to universities andhigher education institutions, policy makers and property developers alike. The research will sit at theintersection of a number of interrelated bodies of literature, drawing new connections between work onstudent geographies, urban change, housing studies and zemiology.