Seminar series: Grenfell Tower Inquiry
This series of seminars, hosted by The Bartlett, seeks to accompany the Grenfell Inquiry by discussing the key aspects that led to the disaster in an academic setting.
Seminar series: Grenfell Tower Inquiry
09 Oct 2020 - 23 Oct 2020
About the seminars
This series of seminars, hosted by the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management in association with the School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences, Bangor University, seeks to accompany the inquiry by discussing the key financial, economic, management and social phenomena in urban housing that led to the disaster in an academic setting.
The seminars will examine the key aspects of the climate and context in which the disaster occurred to try to extrapolate the wider implications and lessons for how urban housing is funded, managed, and supports the social and working lives of urban inhabitants.
The format
Each seminar will consist of 3 chaired panels of papers, author presented to an audience, with comments and general discussion.
The seminars will be held virtually on Friday 9, Friday 16 and Friday 23, October 2020.
How to register
To register and attend please click the relevant registration link in the programme below where you will be taken to an Eventbrite page to sign up.
Programme
Please explore the programme below to find out which seminar(s) you would like to register to attend.
Panel 1 | Friday 9 October
Class, race, economic status and housing
Chair: Professor Peter Shapely
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| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 11.00 | Open and Welcome from Peter Shapely |
| 11.10 | Prof Miles Glendinning, Edinburgh, A Curate’s Egg – Post-war Mass Housing in London |
| 11.40 | Dr Eva Branscome Bartlett, UCL, Before Grenfell: North Kensington’s slums and suburbs |
| 12.00 | Dr. James Greenhalgh, Lincoln, Constructing the Unsuitable Tenant: the development of attitudes towards inhabitants of social housing since the 1920s |
| 12.20 | Dr Alun Ephraim, Bangor University, From Path Dependency to Tragedy? Grenfell Tower and the historical background to the marginalisation of social tenants in the United Kingdom, 1956-2017 |
| 12.40 | BREAK for Lunch |
| 13.10 | Sharda Rozena (PG) Leicester, Gentrification and the significance of racial and class inequalities in Kensington on the Grenfell Tower Tragedy |
| 13.30 | Dr Sam Wetherell, York, A History of high-density council housing and race in Britain |
| 13.50 | Discussion and questions chaired by Prof Shapely |
| 14.30 | Closing remarks: Adrian Williamson Q.C |
Panel 2 | Friday 16 October
Building regulation and deregulation
Panel chairs: Dr. Judy Stephenson, The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, and Sam Stein Q.C.
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| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 11.00 | Open and welcome from Dr Stephenson |
| 11.10 | Holly Smith, University of Cambridge, The Ronan Point disaster: 50 years of negligence in high-rise council housing policy |
| 11.30 | Shane Ewen (Reader), Leeds Beckett University, Before Grenfell: A slow disaster four decades in the making |
| 11.50 | Professor Stefan Muthesius - UEA |
| 12.10 | BREAK FOR LUNCH |
| 12.40 | Comment from Peter Apps – Inside Housing |
| 13.00 | Carl Makin, Deconstructing the ‘risk-based’ regulation of social housing |
| 13.20 | Dr Judy Stephenson, Bartlett UCL, Managing building contracting in the long run |
| 13.30 | Dr Nader Naderpajouh, Dr Rita Zhang, and Prof Jan Hayes, RMIT, Regulation and Deregulation: Case of the Building Industry in Australia |
| 14.00 | Comment from Matt Wrack of the FBU |
| 14.20 | Comment from Brian Richardson |
| 14.40 | Discussion and Questions |
| 14.55 | Closing remarks: Sam Stein Q.C. |
Panel 3 | Friday 23 October
The fundamental problem of co-ordination and procuring building services and contracts
Panel chairs: Dr Vanessa Davies; Michael Bowsher, QC
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| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 11:00 | Open and welcome from Dr Davies |
| 11.10 | Introduction: Mr Bowsher |
| 11.20: | Prof. Albert Sanchez-Graells, University of Bristol Law School, Atomised contractualised governance, disincentives and complex public procurement |
| 11.50 | Dr. Richard Craven, University of Sheffield, The Grenfell Tower disaster as a case study of decision-making in local government procurement |
| 12.20 | BREAK FOR LUNCH |
| 12.50 | Dr. Jas Kalra, UCL, Prof. Michael Lewis, University of Bath, Dr. Mehrnoush Sarafan, University of Bath and University of Cambridge, and Dr. Rehema Msulwa, University of Bath, Characterising (and closing?) the accountability-capability gap in complex public procurement |
| 13.20 | Discussant: Mr. Duncan Brock, FCIPS, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply |
| 13.30 | Discussant: Roberto Caranta, Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Turin |
| 13.40 | Discussion chaired by Mr Bowsher |
| 14:00 | Closing remarks: Dr Davies |
Organisers
Adrian Williamson QC
Sam Stein QC
Dr. Judy Stephenson
Dr. Vanessa Davies
Professor Peter Shapely
Photo credit: Grenfell Tower 2018 by ChiralJon is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Further information
Ticketing
Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All