Carin Tunåker

Dr Carin Tunåker is a lecturer at Kent Law School, University of Kent, specialising in homelessness and inequalities. She is a Social Anthropologist and ethnographer, with experience in working with local communities and disadvantaged populations. Following her PhD in Social Anthropology she worked as an area manager in supported housing for homeless youth, before returning to academia firstly as post-doctoral researcher in projects relating to equality and disadvantages and then as lecturer in the School of Social Policy Sociology and Social Research and in Kent Law School.

Carin’s research focusses on intersectional disadvantages in homelessness and housing, as well as rural homelessness. She collaborates with homelessness scholars internationally, particularly leading and progressing research in the field of LGBTQ+ homelessness.

She has written and advocated for social justice and equality in housing and homelessness research, through co-producing and collaborating with people experiencing homelessness.