Fields of Research

Urban sociology and community studies
Sociology
Urban geography
Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment
Social policy
Public policy
Family and household studies
Housing markets, development and management
Urban policy
Urban analysis and development
Social theory
Sociological methodology and research methods
Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
History and theory of the built environment (excl. architecture)
Social change
Public administration
Land use and environmental planning
Urban and regional planning
Other Indigenous studies
Commercial law
Social geography
Architectural design
Policy and administration
Environmental sociology
Housing policy
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy
Economic development policy
Demography
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sociology
Economic geography
Comparative government and politics
Architecture
Health promotion
Public participation and community engagement
Mental health services
Screen and media culture
Urban design
Social program evaluation
Genetics
Sociology of inequalities
Design
Organisational behaviour
Political theory and political philosophy
Health and community services
Australian government and politics
Gender studies
International humanitarian and human rights law
Police administration, procedures and practice
Health policy
Environment and resource economics
Mental health nursing
Community planning
Communication and media studies
Visual arts

Research Objectives

Public services policy advice and analysis
Pacific Peoples community services
Urban planning
Expanding knowledge in human society
Government and politics
Other culture and society
Structure, delivery and resourcing
Other law, politics and community services
Social class and inequalities
Civics and citizenship
Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community services
Multicultural services
Behaviour and health
Community services
Homelessness and housing services
Residential construction planning
The creative arts
Social impacts of climate change and variability
Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies
Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture
Arts
Justice and the law
Political systems
Demography
Communication
Construction planning
Residential building management and services
Ageing and older people
Health policy evaluation
Electoral systems
Natural hazards
Employment patterns and change
Consumption
Families and family services
Residential construction processes
Land policy
Other environmental management
Mental health
Literature
Public health (excl. specific population health)
Mental health services
Technological and organisational innovation
Industry costs and structure
Expanding knowledge in built environment and design
Provision of health and support services
Ability and disability
The media
Rural and remote area health

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

'Changing the Mix': Contestation Surrounding the Public Housing Stock Transfer Process in Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania; Urban Policy and Research
'Friday Forum: Radio Panel Discussion on Politics in Tasmania', Interview with Mel Bush
'Hurtling down the track': The significance of Australian population debates in an era of anxiety; Journal of Sociology
'Hurtling down the track: the significance of Australian population debate in an era of anxiety', Interview with Faculti Media
'The housing affordability crisis', Interviewed by Piia Wirsu
'This is actually a very simple problem and it's a problem of greed': What would it take to address Tasmania's worsening housing crisis?
A conceptual analysis of social housing as infrastructure; AHURI Final Report
A Conservative Consensus? Housing Policy Before 1997 and After
A conversation with Keith Jacobs
A Critique of the Concept of Social Exclusion and its Utility for Australian Social Housing Policy; Australian Journal of Social Issues
A dead and broken system?': 'insider' views of the future role of Australian public housing'; International Journal of Housing Policy
A discussion on negative gearing and its implications for housing
A reverse form of welfarism: some reflections on Australian housing policy; Australian Journal of Social Issues
A Review of 'The Right to Buy: selling off public and social housing', by Alan Murie
A review of housing management tenant incentive schemes; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute [AHURI] Final Report
A review of housing management tenant incentive schemes; Positioning Paper - Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute [AHURI]
A Review of Private Rental Support Programs
A review of private rental support programs; Positioning Paper - Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute [AHURI]
A review of private rental support programs; Final Report -Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute [AHURI]
ABC Radio Northern Tasmania 'Discussion on housing affordability'
Accommodating Australians: Commonwealth Government Involvement in Housing
Advocating informal support for homelessness: should we be concerned?; Parity
All change for Hackney; Housing and Planning Review
An Analysis of the Housing Needs of Young and Older Aboriginal People in Tasmania
An Evaluation of the Private Rental Tenancy Support Service
ASAP Oceania Chapter: 2016 Australian poverty audit and 2017 mid-term review
Assessing Housing Affordability
At home and in place? The role of housing and social inclusion; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Australian Unintended Cities
Australia’s COVID-19 pandemic housing policy responses; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Australia’s housing affordability crisis
Automotive Extravaganza
Band-aid or Panacea? The Role of Private Rental Support Programs in Addressing Access Problems in the Australian Housing Market; Housing Studies
Better politics: narratives of indignation and the possibility of a prosocial politics; Building better societies: promoting social justice in a world falling apart
Boarding Houses and Government Supply Side Intervention; Positioning Paper - Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute [AHURI]
Boarding Houses and Government Supply Side Intervention
Boarding Houses and Government Supply Side Intervention; Final Report - Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute [AHURI]
Boarding Houses and Government Supply Side Intervention - Positioning Paper
Bogan Talk: What It Says (and Can't Say) about Class in Australia; Class in Australia
Book Review Nancy Kwak’s 'A world of homeowners: American power and the politics of housing aid'
Book review: Decentring urban governance: narratives, resistance and contestation
Book review: John Flint and Ryan Powell (eds), Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis: Putting Wacquant to Work
Building futures: Can local employment be created from housing expenditure?
Business models, consumer experiences and regulation of retirement villages; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Business models, consumer experiences and regulation of retirement villages
Buyers shun new homes near public housing estates
C.W. Mills' notion of the 'social milieu' and its relevance for contemporary society; Thesis Eleven
Can Demand-side intervention and individualised forms of provision serve as a basis for housing reform?; HousingWORKS
Can effective housing management policies address anti-social behaviour?
Can tenant incentive schemes improve housing management outcomes?
Catch-22 for rent collection; Public Finance
Challenging stigma
Cities you’ll never see on screen
Class, the housing crisis and the starting point for reform; Parity
Competition and choice as a guiding principal for housing service reforms: The views of Australian housing professionals; Competition & Change
Conceptualising and Measuring the Housing Affordability Problem
Conceptualising and Measuring the Housing Affordability Problem: Background Paper No 1
Conceptualising ‘financialisation’: governance, organisational behaviour and social interaction in UK housing; International Journal of Housing Policy
Constructing constructive anti-racism
Contemporary Politics and the Rush to Form Rudimentary Judgements; W. D. Joske Interdisciplinary Colloquia - 2017
Contractual welfare ideology and housing management practice: the deployment of 'Tenant Incentive Schemes' in Australia; Urban Policy and Research
Coronavirus has shone a light on UK’s housing crisis – here’s how it can be fixed; The Conversation
Damned by place, then politics: spatial disadvantage and the housing policy research interface; International Journal of Housing Policy
Developing additional housing above and on non-residential sites
Developing Appropriate Exit Strategies for Housing Regeneration Programmes
Developing appropriate exit strategies for housing regeneration programmes; Positioning paper - Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute [AHURI]
Developing appropriate exit strategies for housing regeneration programmes; Final Report - Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute [AHURI]
Developing effective housing management strategies to address problems of anti-social behaviour; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute [AHURI]
Developing effective housing management strategies to address problems of anti-social behaviour, Positioning Paper
Developing effective housing management strategies to address problems of anti-social behaviour, Positioning Paper
Devolved budget making within local authority housing departments: Staff perceptions of power and control; Local Government Studies
Disaster, housing and actuarialism: the securitisation of risk; Housing Theory Symposium
Disasters, housing and actuarialism: on the securitisation of risk; Housing Studies
Discourse Analysis; Methods in Urban Analysis
Discourse Analysis; Social Research Methods
Discourse analysis; Social Research Methods
Discourse Analysis; Social Research Methods: An Australian Perspective
Discourse analysis and its utility for urban policy research; International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory into Research
Discourse analysis and its utility for urban policy research; Urban Policy and Research
Discourse and policy change: the significance of language for housing research; Housing Studies
Discourses about Australian social housing, social exclusion and employment: indications of the post-welfare State?; Housing, Theory and Society
Discussion on the stigmatisation of public housing
Doing fast housing policy in a pandemic
Ending exclusions: Employment and training schemes for young homeless people
Estate action initiative: Housing renewal management and effectiveness
Ethnic Culture: Traditions and Innovations
Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia; Ashgate Publishing
Extent of income inequality in Australia
Final Report: A Review of Private Rental Support Programs
Final Report: Developing Appropriate Exit Strategies for Housing Regeneration Programmes
Finally, most parties take the UK’s housing crisis seriously
From a 'society of fear' to a 'society of respect': the transformation of Hackney's Holly Street Estate; Regenerating London
From the London Underground; Ocean to Outback: Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Australia
Funding door needs to open so public housing can live up to its potential
Gentrification and the middle classes
Governmentality as critique: the diversification and regulation of the Australian housing sector; International Journal of Housing Policy
Have We Reached a Tipping Point in Homelessness Support Service Delivery? An Evaluation of Tasmania's Stay Service
Here comes the sun: Architecture and public space in 20th century European culture
Historical perspectives and methodologies for housing studies; Housing Theory and Society
Holly Street: Blueprint for Success
HOMInG Interview #37: Keith Jacobs
House, Home and Society; Palgrave Macmillan
Housing
Housing agencies' role in preparing and responding to natural disasters and emergencies; European Network of Housing Researchers Conference
Housing agencies' roles in preparing for and responding to natural disasters; Australian Social Policy Conference 2009
Housing and anti-social behaviour in Australia; Housing, Urban Governance and Anti-Social Behaviour
Housing and public policy: Citizenship, choice and control
Housing and Social Inclusion/Exclusion; Parity
Housing fix urgent
Housing in developed economies; Urban Geography
Housing management in transition; Developments in Housing Managment and Ownership
Housing Policy
Housing problems in the developed world; Applied Geography: An Introduction to Useful Research in Physical, Environmental and Human Geography
Housing, inequality and sociology: a comment on pragmatic socioeconomics; Housing, Theory and Society
Housing, Public Policy and Social Inclusion; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Positioning Paper Series
Housing, race, social policy and empowerment
How can the benefits of housing regeneration programs be sustained?
How effective are private rental support programs?
How effective are private rental support programs?
How effective are private rental support programs?; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute [AHURI] Final Report
How policy success, not failure, has driven Australia’s housing crisis
Immigration, indigeneity and identity: Cosmopolitanism in Australia and New Zealand; Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies
Immigration, Indigeneity and Identity: Cosmopolitanism in Australia and New Zealand; Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies
Implementing housing policy
Individualised and market-based housing assistance: evidence and policy options: AHURI Final Report No 253; AHURI Final Report Series 253
Individualised forms of welfare provision and reform of Australia’s housing assistance system
Individualised housing assistance: findings and policy options; AHURI Final Report
Institutional housing practices and racism: The Brook Estate Eltham; History Workshop Journal
Interim Evaluation Hackney Wick SRB Programme
Interpretative and constructionist accounts: their usefulness for understanding 'social problems'; SocietaMutamentoPolitica
Interview for ABC Radio (Hobart) The role of art in addressing social stigma
Introduction; Social Constructionism in Housing Research
Introduction; Ocean to Outback: Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Australia
Introduction to the Special Edition: Housing and Demographic Change; Housing, Theory and Society,
Introduction to the special edition: ‘the politics of housing policy’; Housing Studies
Introduction: Disasters, housing, actuarialism and the securitisation of risk; Housing Studies
Introduction: Homes, Objects and Things; Housing, Theory and Society
Investigating the new landscapes of welfare: housing policy, politics and the emerging research agenda; Housing, Theory and Society
Investor subjectivities in Melbourne’s high cost housing market; Housing, Theory and Society
Is the concept of 'housing insecurity' a useful one for policymakers?; Parity
Journeying South: the contribution of contemporary Australian Literature for migration research; Imagining Home: Migrants and the Search For a New Belonging
Keeping the Dream Alive
Key themes and future projects: Conclusion to the social issue: Discourse and urban change; Urban Studies
L'amenagement urbain britannique entre participation locale et partenariats; Mots
Literature and Policy Review of Homelessness Support Services
Low incomes cause housing stigma
Making sense of partnerships - A study of police and housing department collaboration for tackling drug and related problems on public housing estates
Marginal rental housing in Australia; AHURI Positioning Paper Series
Master planned and active lifestyles developments in Australia: gerotopian dream or dystopian nightmare?; Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?
Material Objects, identity and the home: towards a relational housing research agenda; Housing, Theory and Society
Modernisation, marketisation and housing reform: The use of evidence based policy as a rationality discourse; People, Place and Policy Online
Multiculturalism and social cohesion; Urban 45
Natural disaster preparation and response: a guide for state housing authorities; AHURI Positioning Paper No 113
Natural disaster preparation and response: issues for state housing authorities; AHURI Final Report
Neo-Liberal Ideology and 'The 'Problem' Of Anti-Social Behaviour; Parity
Neoliberal housing policy - a history
Neoliberal Housing Policy: An International Perspective; Routledge
Neoliberalism and the housing affordability crisis; The Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning
Neoliberalism as entrepreneurial governmentally: contradictions and dissonance within contemporary English housing associations; Housing Studies
New Localism, Old Retrenchment: the 'Big Society', housing policy and the politics of welfare reform; Housing, Theory and Society
Ocean to Outback: Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Australia; UWA Publishing
On the Philosophy of the City; Philosophy and the City: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives
Opportunities and constraints in regional policy making: the example of Tasmania's; Housing and Globalisation Conference
Opportunities and constraints in state housing policy: the example of Tasmania's 'Affordable Housing Strategy'; Urban Policy and Research
Performance indicators and social constructionism: Conflict and control in housing management; Critical Social Policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare
Philosophy and The City: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives; Rowman & Littlefield
Place, space, and capital: The landscapes of Patrick Keiller; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Planning, Building and Insuring: Adaptation of Built Environment to Climate Change Induced Increased Intensity of Natural Hazards; National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
Planning: A role for the imagination; Planning Theory
Policies that fail - words that succeed’: the politics of accessible housing in Australia; Australian Journal of Public Administration
Policy intervention and its impact: analysing New Labour's public service reform model as applied to local authority housing in England; Housing, Theory and Society
Political economy perspectives and their relevance for contemporary housing studies; Housing Studies
Politics, Sociology, and the 'Inevitability' of Failure; Routledge International Handbook of Failure
Positioning Paper: A Review of Housing Management Tenant Incentive Schemes
Power, Discursive Space and Institutional Practices in the Construction of Housing Problems; Housing Studies
Pragmatism and participation; Town and Country Planning
Privileged or exploited council tenants? The discursive change in Conservative housing policy from 1972 to 1980; Policy and Politics
Promoting health: Good practice solutions for housing workers
Public Housing
Public Housing
Public Housing
Public Housing
Public Housing and the 'Problem' of Anti-Social Behaviour; Housing Works
Public housing and the politics of stigma; Australian Journal of Social Issues
Public housing in Australia: Stigma, home and opportunity
Public Housing Shake Up
Public virtue; Public Finance
Racism and Cultural Diversity
Responding to Homelessness
Review of H. Jones’ Negotiating cohesion, inequality and change’
Review of: Reification and representation: architecture in the political-media complex
Revisiting Hulme; Town and Country Planning
Searching out a new Hulme; Town and Country Planning
Shun profit motive in housing fix
Social Construction
Social Constructionism in Housing Research; Ashgate Publishing Company
Social exclusion and housing
Social Exclusion and Housing
Social exclusion and housing; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Social History
Social housing as Infrastructure
Social housing as infrastructure: rationale, prioritisation and investment pathway; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Final Report Series
Social Inclusion and the Role of Housing; Handbook of Social Inclusion: Research and Practices in Health and Social Sciences
Speaking with: Keith Jacobs on the politics of housing
Special Issue: Theoretical Concerns In Australian Housing and Urban Research; Housing, Theory and Society
Squatting; Shades of Deviance
Stakeholder views of the regulation of affordable housing providers: Final Report; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Final Report
Start building: housing shortage will soar unless government takes drastic action
Stigma of Housing Taints Sale
Stock Transfer of Public Housing Estates to the Community Housing Sector
Sub-prime Society
Subjectivity and the Transformation of Urban Spatial Experience; Housing, Theory and Society
Submission to the Senate's Economics Reference Committee on Affordable Housing
Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets
Sullivan's Cove to be remediated
Surface and depth
Tackling problems of anti-social behaviour on public housing estates
Tackling stigma on public housing estates
Tasmanian Housing Summit Directions Paper
Tasmanian Housing Update: Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania
Territorial Modes of Governance and the Discourses of Community Reaction in the State of Tasmania; Space and Polity
The allure of the “Big Society”: conveying authority in an era of uncertainty; Housing, Theory and Society
The changing boundaries of politics: The implications of public policy; Occasional Paper Series
The dynamics of local housing policy; Ashgate
The enigma of the bogan and its significance to class in Australia: A socio-historical analysis; Journal of Sociology
The experience of marginal rental housing in Australia; AHURI Final Report Series
The housing system is broken but solutions remain in short supply’; Parity
The inclusive society: Social exclusion and new Labour
The language of resilience: ideas and action in contemporary policy-making; Housing, Theory and Society
The long view; Housing Studies
The making of the modern British home: the suburban semi and family life between the wars by Peter Scott, Oxford, Oxford University Press
The Melancholic Image in Malick's Days of Heaven; Life Above the Clouds: Philosophy in the Films of Terrence Malick
The Myth of the Benevolent State: Review of The Sydney Metropolitan Strategy as a zoning technology: analyzing the spatial and temporal dimensions of obsolescence
The new middle class and the remaking of the central city
The party’s over: critical junctures, crises and the politics of housing policy; Housing Studies
The politics of partnerships: a study of police and housing collaboration to tackle anti-social behaviours on Australian public housing estates; Public Administration
The post-social turn: challenges for housing research; Housing Studies
The role of informal community resources in supporting independent housing for young people recovering from mental illness; AHURI Positioning Paper
The role of informal community resources in supporting stable housing for young people recovering from mental illness: key issues for housing policy-makers and practitioners; AHURI Final Report Series
The rush to buy a piece of paradise
The social forces and politics of housing research: reflections from within the academy; Housing, Theory and Society
The spirit of the age
The stigmatisation of social housing: findings from a panel investigation; AHURI Final Report Series
The struggle to define homelessness: a constructivist approach; Homelessness
The Tasmanian housing market: update 2020-21
The Tasmanian housing market: update 2020-21
The value of a social impact approach: The effectiveness of CatholicCare Tasmania’s social impact approach in practice
The value of a Social Impact Approach: The effectiveness of CatholicCare Tasmania’s Social Impact Approach in practice - Final Report
The ‘Politics’ of Australian Housing: The Role of Lobbyists and Their Influence in Shaping Policy; Housing Studies
Theorising Cause; Homelessness in Australia: An Introduction
Tower block: Modern public housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Twentieth century building in Hackney
Understanding Community: Politics, Policy and Practice
Understanding institutions, actors and networks: advancing constructionist methods in urban policy research; Qualitative Urban Analysis: An International Perspective
Understanding the Problem of Homelessness; Parity
Useful in Some Approaches but not Others?
Using Historical Methods in Housing Studies; SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 2
Waterfront Redevelopment: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Policy-making Process within the Chatham Maritime Project; Urban Studies
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Housing?; SAGE Publishing
What future for public housing? A critical analysis
What future for public housing? A critical analysis; Final Report Series of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
What happens when the funding runs out? Exploring the utility of 'exit strategies' for Australian housing regeneration programmes; Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal
What should happen when the funding runs out? An evaluation of the utility of 'exit strategies' for Australian housing regeneration programmes; National Housing Conference
What to do now? Tensions and dilemmas in responding to natural disasters: a study of three Australian state housing authorities; International Journal of Housing Policy
Why falling house prices aren't the calamity the media would have you believe
Winners and losers in the money-go-round
You can’t eat art! But can arts-based research challenge neighbourhood stigma?; Qualitative Research

Research Projects

A Critical Review of Intervention Studies and Evidence-Based Policy; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
A Review of Housing Management Tenant Incentive Schemes; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
A Review of Private Rental Support Programmes and their Effectiveness in Assisting Tenants on Low Incomes; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
A Study of Housing Stock Transfers in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Adaptation of Built Environment to Climate Change Induced Increased Intensity of Natural Hazards; Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE)
AHURI Postgraduate Scholarship Top-up - Anthony Broese van Groenou; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Postgraduate Scholarship Top-up - Ben Haman; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Postgraduate Scholarship Top-up - Christopher Batt; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Postgraduate Scholarship Top-up - Ella Horton; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Postgraduate Scholarship Top-up - Hilary Cooper; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Postgraduate Scholarship Top-up - Marziyeh Riazi; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Postgraduate Scholarship Top-up - Tanya Ekanayake; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Postgraduate Top-up Scholarship - Erika Altmann; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Top-up Scholarship - Anna Greenwood; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Top-up Scholarship - Kathleen Flanagan; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Top-Up Scholarship - Laura Wynne; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Top-up Scholarship Brophy; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Top-Up-Scholarship - Gina Zappia; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Top-Up-Scholarship - Salvin Gounder; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
AHURI Top-Up-Scholarship - Tamlin Gorter; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
An analysis of the experiences and motivations of clients accessing Sydney's Medically Supervised Injecting Centre and the factors facilitating or inhibiting service uptake and retention; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
An individualised welfare approach to housing assistance: conceptual foundations and international experience; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Boarding Houses and Government Supply Side Intervention; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Challenging the stigmatisation of poverty and place based disadvantage; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Conflicts and challenges: a sociological investigation of key problems in contemporary Australian housing policy making.; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Contracts in the retirement village sector: Assessing consumers attitudes and understanding; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Developing Appropriate Exit Strategies for Housing Regeneration/Renewal Programs; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Developing Effective Housing Management Policies to Address Problems of Anti-social Behaviour; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Effective Strategies for Tackling Drug and Related Problems on Social Housing Estates; Department of Health and Aged Care (DHA)
Enhancing the coordination of housing supports for individuals leaving institutional settings; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Housing Affordability for Lower Income Australians; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Housing and Community Research Unit at the University of Tasmania (HACRU); Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania (DHHS)
Housing Public Policy and Social Exclusion; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Individualised forms of welfare provision and reform of Australia's housing assistance system; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Inquiry into pathways to housing tax reform; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Inquiry into Social Housing as infrastructure; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Lessons from the pandemic; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Marginal Rental Housing and Marginal Renters: A Typology for Policy; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - Felicity Picken; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Preparing for and Responding to Natural Disasters and Environmental Emergencies: A Guide for State Housing Authorities; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Public housing as a social landlord: challenges and solutions; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Regulatory Frameworks and Their Utility for the Not For Profit Housing Sector; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Retirement villages: Business models, consumer experiences and regulation; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Social Exclusion and Housing; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Sustainable Regions for a Competitive Australia; Australian Research Council (ARC)
The conceptual underpinnings of social housing as infrastructure; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
The Problem of Social Housing Stigmatisation and the Innovations That Can Minimise Its Effects: A Panel Investigation; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
The Role of Informal Community Resources in Supporting Independent Housing for Young People Recovering from Mental Illness: A Guide for Housing Policy Makers and Practitioners; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Tipping Point Study; Department of Social Services (DoSS (Cwth))
What Future for Australian Public Housing? A Critical Analysis; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Housing Needs of Young and Elderly Aboriginal People in Tasmania
The Economic Contribution of the Salamanca Arts Centre - A cost benefit analysis
The impact of Centacare Evolve Housing community initiatives
Understanding the lived experience of migrants in Tasmania

Research Candidate Supervision

"Talking UP" the Birth Rate- The Typologising of Women and their Fertility
A Circuit of Governance Housing Framework- Modes and Social Relations in Neo-Liberal Political Practices
An exploration of the financial problems faced by state housing authorities in managing their stock and the strategies to address these problems, including stock transfer to the community-housing sector
Citizenship Rights and Housing Tenure
Constructions of Community, Self and Refugeehood in the Resettlement Experiences of Karen People Living in Tasmania
Contrasting Migrants' perceptions and processes of integration in Tasmania and Iceland.
Creating the Bilbao Effect- Assessing the economic, social and cultural impact of MONA on Hobart's creative industries, and investigating how state and local governments can capitalise on this cultural momentum
Disaster Management- An exploration of participatory and holistic policy and practice- Approaches in Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America
Environmental Governance, Regulation and Climate Change
Expanding the Knowledge Base on Pro Poor Tourism/Sustainable Tourism Eliminating Poverty (ST~EP) and Developing Soundly Based Structures to Implement ST~EP Projects
For the Love of Money Moral Orientations Toward Money in the 'Good Life'
Health and well-being policy, planning and implementation- A comparative study of Tasmania and international processes using regional development approaches.
Health Informatics, Discourses and the Use of Personal Health Information- Which piper, which tune and who pays?
Housing in the private rental sector- a site for investment or a place to live? Investigating the interplay between landlords, tenants, and the structures that inform the experience of secure occupancy.
How social theory has informed the development of housing studies, and the usefulness of this contribution for framing contemporary housing problems.
Hyperlocal Media, Community Participation and Social Change- A Study of Public Broadcasting and Community Conversations in the Digital Age
Is Anyone Doing the Cooking? Food Practices in Contemporary Families
Language and Identity In The African Diaspora in Tasmania
New Public Management and Government Services Provision
Older Women Who Live Alone- An Interpretive Approach to Bridging the Gap Between Lived Experiences and Policy Discourses
Organisational capacity to govern? The case of the owner corporation as a volunteer organisation responsible for large assets
Problematising Social Housing- A Foucauldian Analysis of a Discourse of Anti-Social Behaviour in Australia
Returning to Place- The Return Migration of Young Adults to Tasmania
The Rhetoric of Partnerships Involving People Who Use Illicit Drugs and the Reality of 'Partners' Experience
The Social Consequences of Contemporary Financial Markets and the Case for a Financial Transaction Tax
To consider the role and potential of ethnographic research in applied social policy
Women Managing Ageing- Bodies, Gender and Identities
Youth, mobility and governance on the North West Coast of Tasmania