Alan Morris
Alan Morris is a professor of Sociology in the Institute for Public Policy and Governance at the University of Technology Sydney. His research interests include the impact of housing tenure, gentrification and displacement and urban marginality. His most recent book is The Private Rental Sector in Australia: Living with Uncertainty (2021, co-authored with Hal Pawson and Kath Hulse). In 2019 his book Gentrification and Displacement: The Forced Relation of Public Housing Tenants in Inner-Sydney, was published by Springer. His book on the impact of housing tenure on older Australians, The Australian Dream: Housing Experiences of Older Australians (CSIRO Publishing) was published in 2016.
Lynda Cheshire
Lynda Cheshire is Professor of Sociology and Head of School in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on the lived experience of housing, neighbourhood and community and the way these experiences are shaped by broader social and urban dynamics, such as increased mobility, inequality, disadvantage and urban change. Her recent publications focus on unneighbourly conduct and the un-making of home (Housing Theory and Society, 2020); the supportive turn in social housing governance (British Journal of Sociology, 2019); under-occupancy as policy problem and lived experience among older social housing tenants (Journal of Ageing and Social Policy, 2019); and the way gentrification and densification influence the prevalence of problems between neighbours (Urban Studies, 2018).
Chris Martin
Chris is a Senior Research Fellow in the City Futures Research Centre.
Chris has led and participated in numerous inquiries and research projects for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), the Australian Research Council (ARC) and other research funders.
Chris was previously the Senior Policy Officer of the Tenants’ Union of NSW, and is the author of the ‘Tenants’ Rights Manual’ (4th edition), the leading text on tenancy law and policy for tenants and community workers in New South Wales. He is also a past Chair of Shelter NSW.
Andrew Clarke
Andrew Clarke is a sociologist who researches urban and poverty governance. His expertise is in societal responses to homelessness, housing insecurity, and other forms of housing based disadvantage. In addition to the Waithood study, Andrew is currently working with Cameron Parsell on a large national study investigating of the role of charity in responding to poverty in the context of changing welfare policy, and has a book on this topic, Charitable Society.
Yiran Li
Yiran Li holds a doctorate degree in Social Policy, conferred by the University of New South Wales. With ten years of research experience in the field of urban governance, she has worked as a RA for a number of esteemed tertiary institutions. Her involvement in various projects consistently centres around the challenges faced by the vulnerable and disadvantaged populations in Australia.
Joelle Moore
Joelle is a senior professional with twenty years’ experience in housing research, policy and strategy roles within the public, private and academic sectors. Joelle is currently undertaking her PhD on evictions of older private renters in Queensland.
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