Professor Dunning works at the interface of housing delivery and planning, drawing from behavioural economics. He considers: calculations of housing need; the relationship between public outcomes and land value capture; and cycling infrastructures. His work has been funded by multiple research councils (ESRC, EPSRC and NERC), governments and charities. It has been instrumental in defining affordable housing subsidies in Scotland and land value capture mechanisms in England.
He was Special Advisor to a House of Commons Select Committee on Land Value Capture and is on the REF2029 Architecture, Built Environment and Planning sub-panel.
