Dr Angela Spinney

PhD, MA, PG Cert, MCIH, AHI

Dr Spinney joined the Institute for Social Research as a Research Fellow in May 2009. She is currently working on an ARC funded research project on Family Homelessness and Citizenship, looking at the issues of homeless families lived experiences of citizenship. Angela’s research interests are in all aspects of homelessness and housing need, but particularly centre on homeless families, and the link between family violence and homelessness. Her PhD involved a comparative study of policy responses to homelessness attributed to domestic and family violence in Australia and England. Angela comes to the ISR from the Housing and Community Research Unit at the University of Tasmania where she worked on an AHURI research project on gentrification and displacement. During 2007/2008 Angie worked for the Salvation Army Tasmania on the Safe from the Start research project which was funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government. Safe from the Start was an innovative State-wide initiative, which aimed to identify key elements of best practice for working with children aged up to six who have been made homeless by family violence. This involved identifying and forming a register of intervention activities and therapeutic play, which children’s workers can use. Before moving to Australia in 2007, Angela was a Senior Lecturer in Housing at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her pre-academic career involved fifteen years as a Senior Manager of Social Housing and Homelessness Projects in a Local Authority and for several Housing Associations in the UK, and this experience is reflected in her current research interests.

Publications in the Swinburne Research Bank

Conference Papers

ENHR International Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007. "The Effect on Policy Responses of Differing Constructions of Homelessness Attributed to Domestic Violence".

ENHR International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia July 2006. "A Comparative Investigation of Policy Responses to Homelessness in England and Australia".

ENHR International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia July 2006 "The Gendered Nature of Policy Discourse: Patriarchy, Pathology or is there a Third Way?" (with Judith Nixon and Caroline Hunter).