Associate Professor Keith Jacobs

Associate Professor Keith Jacobs is Director of the AHURI Southern Research Centre and is located at the University of Tasmania. 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

Keith 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 research projects funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI). 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.