Housing under fire: a wartime research agenda
Researchers from six universities met in St Andrews to study Ukraine’s housing market in wartime.
The University of St Andrews Business School recently hosted a two-day workshop on housing markets in Ukraine during wartime, bringing together researchers from six European universities to share findings and shape the next stage of an international research collaboration.
The Department of Finance and the Centre for Responsible Banking and Finance organised the workshop as part of the research project “Residential Housing Markets During Wartime”, funded by Cormack Consultancy Group through the Seed Fund for Research Excellence under the UK–Ukraine University Twinning Initiative. The project is led in collaboration with the National University of Ostroh Academy in Ukraine and the University of Birmingham.
Researchers from the University of St Andrews, the National University of Ostroh Academy, the University of Birmingham, the University of Graz, the University of York and Trinity College Dublin attended across the two days. Sessions covered housing markets, mortgage finance, Ukrainian data, text analysis in finance, AI-based research pipelines, and new methodological approaches to collaborative research.
Professor Robert Hill of the University of Graz delivered the keynote, examining real estate price measurement since the Global Financial Crisis.
Dr Linh Nguyen, project lead and Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance at the University of St Andrews Business School, said:
“This workshop was an important opportunity to strengthen international research collaboration and build research capacity on housing markets and economic resilience during wartime.
“It created valuable opportunities for knowledge exchange, mentoring, and open discussion on the challenges researchers face and how we can work together to address them.”
The workshop laid the groundwork for long-term international collaboration, joint publications and further research. A second policy engagement workshop will follow later this year, bringing researchers together with stakeholders to continue the discussion.