Associate Professor Daphne Habibis is a sociologist, and former Director of the Housing and Community Research Unit at the University of Tasmania. She has published widely on housing and urban policy issues especially in relation to tenancy sustainment and Aboriginal housing. She is the co-author, with Associate Professor Maggie Walter, of the monograph, Social Inequality in Australia: Discourses, Realities and Futures published by Oxford University Press. She is the lead investigator on a number of ARC and AHURI funded research projects concerning Aboriginal and Euro-Australian race relations, welfare conditionality in Aboriginal housing, and improving tenancy management in remote Aboriginal communities.
Experience
–present
Associate professor, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
–present
Director, Housing and Community Research Unit, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
Education
London School of Economics, BSc (Hons)
London School of Economics, PhD
Publications
2014
Progressing Tenancy Management Reform on Remote Indigenous Communities, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
2013
'The Illness Experience' in J. Germov (ed) Second Opinion 5e , Oxford University Press
2013
‘Ethics’ in Walters, M., (ed.) Social Research Methods: An Australian Perspective 3e., Oxford University Press
2013
Australian Housing Policy, Misrecognition and Indigenous Population Mobility, Housing Studies
2013
Separate Worlds: A Discourse Analysis of Mainstream and Indigenous Populist Print Media Accounts of the Northern Territory Emergency Response in 2007, Journal of Sociology
2013
Losing My Religion: Managing Identity in a Post-Jehovah’s Witness World, Journal of Sociology
2013
Housing Conditionality, Indigenous Lifeworlds and Housing Policy Outcomes: towards a model for culturally sensitive housing provision, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
2013
Sociology 5e, Pearson Education
2012
. ‘Australian Social Work is White’ in B. Bennett, S. Green, S. Gilbert and D. Bessarab Our Voices: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Work, Palgrave Macmillan
2011
A Framework for Reimagining Indigenous Mobility and Homelessness, Urban Policy and Research
2011
Improving Housing Responses to Indigenous Patterns of Temporary Mobility, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
2011
How White is Social Work in Australia?, Australian Social Work
2009
Social Inequality in Australia: Realities, Discourses and Futures, Oxford University Press
Grants and Contracts
2014
Identifying effective arrangements for managing remote Aboriginal tenancies
Role:
Lead Investigator
Funding Source:
National Housing Research Program
2014
NDIS, housing assistance and choice and control for people with a disability
Role:
Investigator
Funding Source:
National Housing Research Program
2013
Telling it like it is: Aboriginal perspectives on race, race relations and governance