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Professor Wendy Stone

Professor of Housing & Social Policy

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

Children, housing and social policy; Social capital; Housing aspirations, culture, norms & strategies; Just cities; Housing futures; housing, social & urban policy

PhD candidate and honours supervision

Higher degrees by research

Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.

PhD topics and outlines

Housing & social policy: Evidence bases for improving housing systems, housing assistance pathways and intersection of spheres of social policy

Children & families (housing & social policy): Children and family housing & home lives, children's exposure to housing poverty, children's policy, shared time parenting

Geography and demography of housing: Generational change in housing opportunity, housing family life, relationships & home

Housing cooperatives and innovations: Housing cooperative sector, new models for creating secure 'home' lives, housing sector innovation and co-design

Housing poverty and inequalities: Housing inequalities and theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding and responding to these including via innovation and systems thinking

Liveability (urban, community): Community change, inequalities, spatial disadvantage

Social capital, networks and resources: Social capital conceptualisation and empirical exploration in social policy, housing and community research

Honours

Available to supervise honours students.

Fields of Research

  • Urban And Regional Planning - 330400
  • Sociology - 441000
  • Public Policy - 440709

Teaching areas

Housing policy;Public policy;Problem based learning;Social research methods

Awards

  • 2018, Swinburne, Dean's Outstanding Researcher Award, Swinburne University
  • 2016, Swinburne, Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award, Swinburne University

Publications

Also published as: Stone, Wendy; Stone, W.; Stone, Wendy M.
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Recent research grants awarded

  • 2021: AHURI Postgraduate Scholarship Top-Up Zoe Goodall *; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Fund Scheme
  • 2021: Evaluation of the Homes Victoria Rental Relief Grant *; Department of Families, Fairness and Housing
  • 2020: Aboriginal Private Rental Access Project *; Consumer Policy Research Centre - Research Pathways Program
  • 2020: Articulating value in housing cooperatives *; ARC Linkage Projects Scheme
  • 2020: Collaborative housing and just cities in comparative context: Australia and Honduras - Top-up AHURI Postgraduate Scholarship - Student Nestor Agustin Guity Zapata *; AHURI Postgraduate Research Scholarship Top-Up
  • 2020: Data and Research Module *; Department of Health and Human Services Fund Scheme
  • 2019: AHURI Postgraduate Symposium 2020 *; AHURI Non-competitive Fund Scheme
  • 2019: An Australian Rental Housing Conditions Data Infrastructure *; ARC Linkage Infrastructure and Equipment Scheme
  • 2019: Housing and housing assistance pathways with companion animals: risks, costs, benefits and opportunities *; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Fund Scheme
  • 2018: AHURI Postgraduate Symposium 2019 *; AHURI Non-competitive Fund Scheme
  • 2018: Effective downsizing options for older Australian *; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Fund Scheme
  • 2018: Home ownership decline: unpacking its extent, impact and implications 2016 *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2018: Inquiry into an effective homelessness services system *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2018: Inquiry into understanding and reimagining social housing pathways *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2018: The construction of social housing pathways across Australia *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2017: AHURI Postgraduate Symposium 2018 *; AHURI Non-competitive Fund Scheme
  • 2017: AHURI top-up scholarship - Rachel Maguire *; AHURI Postgraduate Research Scholarship Top-Up
  • 2017: Inquiry into housing aspirations and constraints for lower-income Australians *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2017: Mid-life Australians and the housing aspirations gap *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2017: Older Australians and the housing aspirations gap *; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Fund Scheme
  • 2017: Understanding opportunities for social impact investment in the development of affordable housing *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2017: Young Australians and the housing aspirations gap *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2016: An Australian Housing Condition Data Infrastructure *; ARC Linkage Infrastructure and Equipment Scheme
  • 2016: DHHS Rental Reports *; Department of Health and Human Services Fund Scheme
  • 2016: Inquiry into social impact investment for housing and homelessness outcomes *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2016: The institutional dynamics of the Australian private rental sector: prospects and opportunities. *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2016: Toward a capabilities approach in housing and homelessness service delivery: recent developments and their implications *; Brotherhood of St Laurence Fund Scheme
  • 2015: AHURI top-up scholarship - Deborah Batterham *; AHURI Postgraduate Research Scholarship Top-Up
  • 2015: Children's Housing and Locational Disadvantage: A child and young people-focussed analysis *; Lord Mayor's Charitable Fund (LMCF)
  • 2014: AHURI top-up scholarship - Mandy Brent-Houghton *; AHURI Postgraduate Research Scholarship Top-Up
  • 2014: AHURI top-up scholarship - Shae Hunter *; AHURI Postgraduate Research Scholarship Top-Up
  • 2014: Housing assistance demand, dynamics and provision Australia: a household-based policy analysis *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2014: Individualised forms of welfare provision and reform of Australia's housing assistance system *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2013: Changes in the supply/demand for low-rent housing in the Australian private rental market 2006- *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2013: Social housing exits: analysing incidence, motivations and consequences *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2013: Sustaining private rental tenancies: targeted tenant support across life events and housing transitions *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2011: Changes in the private rental system and the effects of long-term private rental *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2010: Residual Incomes in Australia: Analysis and Implications *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects
  • 2010: Social Inclusion and Housing: A Household and Local Area Analysis *; AHURI National Housing Research Program - Research Projects

* Chief Investigator


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