Dr Adam Crowe awarded 2021 AHURI Postdoctoral Fellowship
Research to focus on tenure security in the private rental sector
23 Jun 2021
AHURI is very pleased to announce that Dr Adam Crowe of Curtin University, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, has been awarded the 2021 AHURI Postdoctoral Fellowship to examine innovation in Australia’s private rental sector.
The central aim of the research project is to identify and critically analyse innovative ways to improve tenure security within the private rental sector. The research will examine tenant experience and outcomes, policy innovation, and Build-to-Rent as an emerging asset class touted to increase rental supply. The study will build on existing research and advance policy debates surrounding an expanding private rental sector and ways to increase tenure security.
Dr Crowe is an accomplished qualitative researcher with excellent analysis skills. In 2019, he was part of a government-funded research project that informed the Western Australia 10-year Housing Strategy and is leading a project focused on housing models to end homelessness, commissioned by Shelter WA.
Dr Crowe is also part of the team for a current AHURI research project, ‘Housing aspirations for precariously housed older Australians’, as well as having contributed to recently completed projects such as Responding to the pandemic, can building homes rebuild Australia which featured as part of the AHURI priority COVID-19 Research Agenda.
As an important part of the Fellowship, Dr Crowe will work closely with mentor Professor Steven Rowley, Research Centre Director, AHURI, to deliver the secondary data analysis and the economic modelling of potential ‘Build to rent’ scenarios and their outcomes.
Through its Postdoctoral Fellowship program, AHURI is committed to building and developing Australia’s talented pool of researchers specialising in housing, homelessness and urban issues. Since 2004, AHURI has supported 12 Postdoctoral Fellowships. In addition to the Fellowship, AHURI offers Postgraduate Scholarship Top-ups annually to assist postgraduate housing students in their research. Such capacity building means Australian governments and policymakers can be confident for the future of high-quality evidence-based research to inform policy development.