Researcher

Dr Andrew Clarke

My Expertise

  • Homelessness and housing insecurity
  • Social housing
  • Social welfare
  • Charity

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Biography

Andrew is a sociologist with expertise in the areas of housing studies, social policy, urban sociology, and social theory. He researches a variety of topics including housing insecurity and homelessness, social housing provision, urban governance, and the role of charity in contemporary welfare systems. He is currently undertaking research into how evictions unfold in the Australian private rental sector and contributing to the biennial...view more

Andrew is a sociologist with expertise in the areas of housing studies, social policy, urban sociology, and social theory. He researches a variety of topics including housing insecurity and homelessness, social housing provision, urban governance, and the role of charity in contemporary welfare systems. He is currently undertaking research into how evictions unfold in the Australian private rental sector and contributing to the biennial Australian Homelessness Monitor study, which investigates changes in rates and patterns of homelessness and developments in homelessness policy and interventions. 

Andrew’s methodological expertise lies in the use of ethnographic and other qualitative methods to investigate social policies and programs and their effects. He has a strong background in social theory and he is passionate about integrating theoretically-informed sociological analysis with applied social policy research. Andrew also has experience in combining ethnographic research with analysis of administrative data in policy and program evaluations.

Andrew is the Australasian editor of Housing Studies and a fellow with the City Futures Research Centre and the Australian Basic Income Lab. Prior to joining UNSW, Andrew held a series of research fellowships at the University of Queensland (2016-2022). Andrew received his PhD in sociology from the University of Queensland in 2017.


My Grants

Morris, A., Cheshire, C., Martin, C. & Clarke, A. Eviction: How private renters lose their homes and the consequences (2023-2025). Australian Research Council Discovery Grant.

Morris, A., Cheshire, L., Clarke, A., Parsell, C., Pawson, H., Robinson, C., & Walsh, K. Waithood: The experience of being on the social housing waiting list, 2020-2023. Australian Research Council Linkage Grant.

Aminpour, F., Levin, I., Hartley, C., Barnes, E., Clarke, A. & Pawson, H. From a straitened sector to a system of socially supported housing pathways – Project B Getting off the waiting list? Changing access to housing assistance. Australian Urban and Housing Research Institute.

 


My Qualifications

PhD (sociology), University of Queensland, 2017

Honours (sociology), University of Queensland, 2011

Bachelor of Arts, University of Queensland, 2010


My Awards

TASA Early Career Researcher Best Paper Prize 2021, awarded for paper ‘Bureaucratic encounters after neoliberalism: examining the supportive turn in social housing governance’, published in the British Journal of Sociology, 2020, 71(2).

TASA Honours Award 2011, awarded for the honours thesis Governing the Dieting Self: Conducting Weight-loss Via the Internet.


My Research Supervision


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Areas of supervision

  • Housing insecurity and homelessness
  • Social housing
  • Housing policy
  • Social welfare/social policy
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Location

Level 1 Room 117 Morven Brown Building

Contact

+61 2 9065 7041 (School Office)

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