Staff Profile:

Name::

Dr Christian Nygaard

Position / Job Title:

Research Fellow, Economics

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

Long-term urban change and growth; housing markets and systems analysis; global cities, city regions and urban economies; renewal of social housing; political economy of social housing, state and economic governance; property rights theory and new institutional economics; transition economies; and, Russian oil and gas industry.

Research groups / Centres:

• Centre for Euro-Asian Studies (CEAS) 
• International Centre for Housing and Urban Economics (ICHUE)

Publications:

Journal Articles

• Wood, G., Nygaard, C., Berry, M. & Taylor, E. (2008) 'Community Mix, Affordable Housing and Metropolitain Planning Strategy in Melbourne', Built Environment, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 273-290.
• Kalyuzhnova, Y. & Nygaard, C. (2008) 'State Governance Evolution in Resource-Rich Transition Economies: An Application to Russia and Kazakhstan', Energy Policy, vol. 36, pp. 1829-1842.
• Nygaard, C., Berry, M. & Gibb, K. (2008) 'The Political Economy of Social Housing Reform: A Framework for Considering Decentralised Ownership, Management and Service Delivery in Australia', Urban Policy and Research, vol 26, no. 1, pp. 5-21.
• Nygaard, C., Gibb, K. & Berry, M. (2007) 'Ownership Transfer of Social Housing in the UK: A Property Rights Approach', Housing, Theory and Society, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 89-110.
• Gibb, K. & Nygaard, C. (2006) 'Transfers, Contracts and Regulation: a New Institutional Economics Perspective on the Changing Provision of Social Housing in Britain', Housing Studies, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 825-850.
• Gibb, K. & Nygaard, C. (2005) 'The Scale and Impact of Buy to Let Residential Investment on Local Housing Markets: Evidence from Glasgow, Scotland, European Journal of Housing Policy, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 301-326.

Research Reports

• Berry, M., Murphy, J., Nygaard, C. & Wood, G. ( 2006) Winners and Losers: Regional futures and Local Profiles, Melbourne: Salvation Army's Melbourne Central Division (Commissioned Report, Salvation Army).
• Gibb, K., Kintrea, K., Nygaard, C. & Flint, J. (2005) Review of the Effectiveness and Impact of Scottish Homes Stock Transfer, Communities Scotland Research Report no. 50, Communities Scotland, Edinburgh (Commissioned Report, Communities Scotland).
• Nygaard, C., Pengilly, S., Berry, M., Murphy, J., & Wood, G. (2005). Regional Report North West Region, Melbourne: AHURI, RMIT (Commissioned Report, Salvation Army).
• Nygaard, C., Pengilly, S., Berry, M., Murphy, J., & Wood, G. (2005). Regional Report Outer West Region, Melbourne: AHURI, RMIT (Commissioned Report, Salvation Army).
• Nygaard, C., Pengilly, S., Berry, M., Murphy, J., & Wood, G. (2005). Regional Report Inner West Region, Melbourne: AHURI, RMIT (Commissioned Report, Salvation Army).
• Nygaard, C., Pengilly, S., Berry, M., Murphy, J., & Wood, G. (2005). Regional Report North East Region, Melbourne: AHURI, RMIT (Commissioned Report, Salvation Army).
• Nygaard, C., Pengilly, S., Berry, M., Murphy, J., & Wood, G. (2005). Regional Report Central Region, Melbourne: AHURI, RMIT (Commissioned Report, Salvation Army).
• Nygaard, C. & Gibb, K. (2005). Western Isles Local Housing System Update, Glasgow: Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow (Commissioned Report, Comhairle nan Eilean).
• Wood, G., Nygaard, C., Stoakes, A., Allan, I., Berry, M., Yates, J. & Dalton, T. (2005). A Descriptive Analysis of the Melbourne Housing Market, Melbourne: AHURI, RMIT.
• Gibb, K. & Nygaard, C. (2004). The Scale and Impact of Buy to Let in the Glasgow Housing Market, Glasgow: Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow (Commissioned Report, Glasgow City Council).
• Gibb, K., MacLennan, D., Nygaard, C. & McLaren, J. (2004). Western Isles Local Housing Strategy: Analysing the Local Housing System, Glasgow: Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow (Commissioned Report, Comhairle nan Eilean).

Qualifications:

PhD University of Glasgow, Department of Central and Eastern European Studies; MA Arts (Politics) University of Wollongong, Faculty of Arts; Candidatus Magisterii University of Bergen, Faculty of Social Sciences.