Quintin Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Housing and Planning studies at Leeds Beckett University and is a researcher in housing studies, community action and planning. His research has been published in peer-reviewed international journals. He is the author of Property, Planning and Protest, published by Routledge in 2023, editor of Neighbourhood Planning and Localism: power to the people, published by Policy Press in 2017, and author of the The Tenants Movement published by Routledge in 2014. His latest book, The Myth of Affordable Housing, a scathing critique of a global failure to address the crisis of need, will be published by Routledge in 2026.
Quintin started his academic career by getting kicked out of university blamed for covering the campus in anarchist graffiti. He played in a punk band, became a gardener, furniture remover, and meals on wheels driver, before making the libel lawyers very happy as investigative reporter for the alternative press Leeds Other Paper and Northern Star magazine. He contributed to Granada TV’s World in Action and The Guardian and published research for grassroots campaigns as I-Spy Productions. He was active in squatting and housing rights campaigns and established the Leeds Claimants Union.
Inspired by his housing campaign work, Quintin became a community worker for the tenants’ movement, working for Kirklees Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations and then Leeds Tenants Federation. He joined Leeds Beckett University as a lecturer in 2008.