Associate Professor; Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
Associate Professor Wendy Stone is Director of the AHURI-Swinburne Research Centre, where she undertakes applied social policy research focused on the nexus between inequality, housing, family and community wellbeing. Her research informs policy development, and improved conceptualisation of complex social issues. Previously Wendy worked at the Australian Institute of Family Studies and the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).
Wendy's current research focuses on spatial, temporal and longitudinal accounts of children's housing disadvantage and policy innovation to reduce housing-related inequalities.
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