Peter Anthony Kemp, FAcSS (born 25 December 1955) is a social scientist.
In 1984, the University of Sussex awarded him a doctorate for his thesis "The transformation of the urban housing market in Britain c.
[1][2] Kemp returned to Glasgow in 1985 as a research fellow, before lecturing at the University of Salford from 1987 to 1990, when he was appointed the first Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy at the University of York.
In 2006, he was appointed Barnett Professor of Social Policy at the University of Oxford and held that post until 2013, although he remained a professor of public policy at the University.
[4] In 2011, Kemp was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).