Roger Burrows is Professor of Cities at the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. His academic background is in sociology, statistics and political economy but he has also worked in the fields of social policy and cultural studies. About one-half of his published outputs have been in the field of housing and urban studies with the rest being variously concerned with: consumption; digital technologies; health, illness and the body; migration; the use of metrics in higher education; social class and other inequalities; work and employment; and other topics.