住房设计，开发和更新研究主题涉及城市和农村地区的发展过程和结果。特别关注可负担住房，再生，住房质量和环境的可持续性。研究人员不仅对开发的物理元素感兴趣，而且对设计和开发过程也很感兴趣。苏格兰政府正在进行的工作正在评估购买可负担住房的特殊方法的有效性，并考虑成本，质量和治理问题，并且先前的工作已经研究了设计在苏格兰私人开发商住房中的作用。
The Housing Design, Development and Regeneration research theme deals with the processes and outcomes of development in both urban and rural settings. There is a particular focus on affordable housing, regeneration, housing quality and sustainability of environments. Researchers are not only interested in the physical elements of development, but also the process of design and development. On-going work for the Scottish Government is evaluating the effectiveness of a particular approach to procuring affordable housing and considers issues of cost, quality and governance, and previous work has examined the role of design in private developer housing in Scotland.