Nicola Livingstone

Nicola Livingstone is a Professor in Real Estate at the University of Glasgow (since 2023), affiliated with the Urban Studies department. Previously, she held roles at UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning and Heriot-Watt University, where she completed her 2011 PhD on charity retailing through a Marxist lens. Her research spans real estate investment trends, urban governance, and the social dimensions of built environments.

• Research focuses on post-COVID office markets, housing densification, and the political economy of food insecurity.
• Collaborates with the University of Toronto as a Visiting Professor and co-edited Critical Dialogues of Urban Governance, Development and Activism: London and Toronto (2020).

Her interdisciplinary work integrates perspectives from real estate, planning, and critical social science. Recent grants include £60k (2022) for post-COVID urban studies and £457k (2019) on housing investment landscapes.

Teaching contributions include the MSc Real Estate Programme, covering valuation, appraisal, and development economics.