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Professor Wendy Stone
- Faculty of Health, Arts & Design
- School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education (SoSSMFE)
- Centre for Urban Transitions
Biography
Professor Wendy Stone is Academic Leader of the Housing Futures Research Program within the Centre for Urban Transitions and was Director of the AHURI Swinburne Research Centre (2013 - 2020). Wendy holds numerous Category 1 competitive ARC and AHURI research grants and industry awards. She is leader of the annual national housing scholars' symposium, publishes for academic and community audiences, is engaged in policy development and debate in housing issues, is a regular media contributor and supervises higher degree research students. Specialising in the use of innovative quantitative and qualitative methodologies to address policy-oriented research questions, Wendy has an extensive policy-research record, most notably in the fields of family and community wellbeing, children/young people's housing, housing aspirations and innovative policies to address these, income, wealth and life-opporutnity inequalities and social inclusion/social capital. Previously, Wendy held senior positions at the Australian Institute of Family Studies and the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI Ltd).
Wendy leads the research group that was awarded the 2016 Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award in recognition of outstanding housing and urban research and its impact and is recipient of the 2018 Dean's Outstanding Researcher Award.
Research interests
Housing, family and community life; Sociology of housing; Children's housing & social policy; Social capital & public policy; Housing inequalities & public policy; Private rental housing
Fields of Research
- Urban And Regional Planning - 330400
- Sociology - 441000
- Public Policy - 440709
Publications
Also published as: Stone, Wendy; Stone, W.; Stone, Wendy M.
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Recent media
- 2021-04-28: Rental pressures in Perth force tenants to give up pets - The Market Herald
- 2021-04-28: The future for vacant apartments in the CBD - ABC 774 Melbourne
- 2021-03-15: Shift in attitude on pets in rentals - The West Australian
- 2021-03-09: Report shines light on home ownership gap between men and women - The New Daily
- 2021-02-27: Experts say this is what Australia needs to do to solve the housing crisis - ABC News
- 2021-02-24: Making more rental properties pet friendly - ABC Life Matters
- 2021-02-20: Weekend Evenings - ABC Radio
- 2021-02-19: Focus with Cassie McCullagh - ABC Radio Sydney
- 2021-02-19: News Breakfast - ABC TV News Breakfast
- 2021-02-19: Tiger played a huge role in Alex's life. Things could have been different - The Canberra Times
- 2021-02-08: Breakfasters - RRR Community Radio
- 2021-02-04: Victorians struggling to put a roof over their head after COVID-19 pandemic - ABC Radio The Conversation Hour
- 2018-12-03: Sorry First Homebuyers, But Falling House Prices Won't Help You Much - 10 Daily
- 2018-12-02: Rising inequality is hollowing out the Australian middle class - Sydney Morning Herald
- 2018-09-20: NSW rental reforms provide ‘no mechanism for change’ - Domain
- 2018-09-14: How Aussie town form guide may encourage migrants out of Sydney, Ben Pike Exclusive - Daily Telegraph
- 2018-08-06: Landlords will withdraw homes from rental market in response to new laws: REIV - Domain
- 2016-11-07: CBD development to fund social housing through apartment sales - The Age
- 2015-06-25: Housing tenants say enough is enough - Alt Media
- 2015-06-25: Laws to be revamped in bid to protect landlords and tenants - Herald Sun
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