Beth Stratford

Beth Stratford is an Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) within The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London. Her work bridges political economy and policy advocacy, focusing on transformative housing and economic systems.

Her research centers on housing justice and ecological macroeconomics, notably co-leading the "Homes that Don’t Cost the Earth" project to develop housing policy within planetary boundaries. She is finalizing an analysis of rent control models' socioeconomic impacts—including effects on landlord profits, housing benefit expenditure, and poverty—which will be published by the New Economics Foundation.

Beth supervises PhD candidate Stefan Horn and has co-authored influential policy reports including the UK Labour Party's "Land for the Many" and the University of Leeds' "The UK’s Path to a Doughnut-Shaped Recovery." As a founder of the London Renters Union and advisor to Positive Money, she actively shapes movements for economic justice through academic-practice partnerships.