Since the high-profile eviction of travellers from the Dale Farm site in Billericay, October 2012, Professor Rob Home has continued his related research and work. He has recently published an article on 'Forced eviction and planning enforcement: the Dale Farm Gypsies' in the International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, and continued to advise local authorities (London Borough of Redbridge and Doncaster Borough Council) and give interviews to the media, most recently BBC Radio Sheffield.

On 12 February 2013 he gave an invited talk to the John Dee Society at King Edward Grammar School in Chelmsford, which is a forum for presentations and discussions of an intellectual nature for sixth formers. He spoke on the subject of 'Land ownership and society', drawing upon his work for the Government Foresight Land Use Futures project in 2009, his international research on land titling in Africa and the Caribbean, as well as his long-standing work on Gypsy/Traveller accommodation issues. The meeting was well attended, in spite of the snowy weather, and a lively discussion was only ended when the room had to be vacated for a parents' evening.

In May, Professor Home will contribute a paper on the subject to an international workshop on 'Indignation, socioeconomic inequality and the role of law', to be held at the University of Onati, near Bilbao in in the Basque region of Spain. The workshop, funded by the International Institute for the Sociology of Law and organised by law professors from Canada and the USA, will be attended by researchers from many countries.

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