Dr Rowland Atkinson
Rowland is Director of the Housing and Community Research Unit, located in the School of Sociology at the University of Tasmania. Following doctoral work on gentrification and patterns of household displacement in London he joined the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow where he was a self‑funded research fellow for six years before becoming a lecturer.
His research interests continue to be focused on social problems, social justice and the city. He has carried out policy‑related research for a range of research funders including the ESRC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Office of the Deputy Prime Minister among others. This work and other academic work has focused on a wide range of urban and housing problems but particularly the following: Gentrification, elite residential development and its social consequences, Social diversity and its links to urban and housing sustainability and regeneration, Privatisation of public and residential spaces, particularly with reference to gated communities and Disorder, anti‑social behaviour, social control and community life in neighbourhoods.
Current research includes work for AHURI on (i.) sustaining the tenancies of mentally ill households in social housing, (ii.) the housing and community consequences of creative city strategies, and (iii.) the local impacts of second homeownership in Australia. Unfunded urban and housing research also continues on the role of anger in urban policy‑making as well as ESRC‑related work, with Dr Keith Jacobs (UTAS), on the social relations of housing contract research in the UK and Australia.
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