The Zemiology of Student Housing in Dublin

高等教育管理局2015年发布的一份报告发现，爱尔兰学生的住宿存在严重赤字(Fitzgerald，2017)，其中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，都柏林的学生床位只能满足12.2%的在校学生的需求(莱坊，2017年)。爱尔兰学生公寓市场不仅出现了可用住房严重供不应求的情况，而且对负担得起的住房的需求也很大，都柏林是爱尔兰学生居住成本最高的城市。这项研究基于对都柏林学生公寓的一项研究，旨在通过利用社会危害的角度来探索学生在都柏林住房危机中的经历，从而提高学生的地理位置。这项研究旨在推进方兴未艾的地方学领域，把学生放在研究的中心，并在这样做的同时主张在地理研究中采用社会危害的方法。学生的经历往往不被注意，而倾向于其他更突出的声音，如：房东(Munro和Livingston，2011年)；当地企业主(Chatterton和Holland，2003年)；房地产经纪人和议会工作人员(Allinson，2006年)；大学教职员工(Chatterton，2000年)，以及非学生当地居民(Hubbard，2008)。然而，被忽视的学生声音仍然是这项研究的核心驱动力。通过对都柏林四所大学的学生进行深入研究，这项研究旨在解决现有文献中的差距，并提出与大学和高等教育机构、政策制定者和房地产开发商相关的见解。这项研究将位于多个相互关联的文献的交叉点上，在学生地理、城市变化、住房研究和流行病学方面的工作之间建立新的联系。

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.