Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
-
Challenging the discourse around the impacts of airbnb through suburbs not cities: Lessons from australia and covid-19
Published 2021Supporters of short-term rental (STR) platforms state that STRs represent a small fraction of the housing market of major cities and therefore have little impact on rents. However, there is emerging evidence that suggests ...Article -
Speculating on Biodesign in the Future Home
Published 2021The home is a place of shelter, a place for family, and for separation from other parts of life, such as work. Global challenges, the most pressing of which are currently the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change has forced ...Conference paper -
Geographies of Digital Storytelling: Care and Harm in a Pandemic
Published 2021Around the world, digital geographies have been renegotiated in the COVID-19 pandemic, from increased surveillance with digital devices to facilitation of new spatial boundaries for work and recreation. Digital storytelling ...Book chapter -
Research during the COVID-19 pandemic: ethics, gender and precarious work
Published 2021In this essay, I reflect on my experiences of undertaking housing research during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has had vast global impacts beyond the massive loss of life; disrupting economies, environments and ...Article -
The Hack: what is it and why it matters to urban studies
Published 2021This commentary advances the ‘hack’ as an urban concept. While the hack transcends existing literatures on the digital and informality, the hack is a distinctive concept and is being used systematically in new domains. I ...Open AccessPreprint