Director, Housing and Community Research Unit (HACRU)

Discipline : Sociology

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Career Summary

Prior coming to Tasmania, Keith's previous posts have included principal lecturer and subject leader in ‘housing studies’ at the University of Westminster, principal policy officer for the London Borough of Newham and a housing manager for the London Borough of Hackney.

He has published widely on housing and urban policy issues and is the author of the 'Dynamics of Local Housing Policy' published by Ashgate Press (1999) and 'Social Constructionism in Housing Research' (2004) edited with Jim Kemeny and Tony Manzi (Ashgate Press).

Since moving to Australia in 2002, he established the Housing and Community Research Unit (HACRU) and was chief investigator on a number of Australian Housing and Urban Research (AHURI) funded research projects (see www.ahuri.edu.au for more details). He is the book review editor for the journal 'Housing, Theory and Society'. Keith's most recent projects include a monograph on Australian migration, an edited collection on Cosmopolitanism (with Jeff Malpas) and an AHURI funded project examining the role of state housing authorities in responding to environmental disasters.

Research Areas:

• AHURI CRV3: Project C1 - Housing Affordability for Lower Income Australians  Read More
• Housing and Community Research Unit (HACRU)  Read More
• Housing and Community Studies  Read More
• Migration and Ethnicity  Read More