Deb is a Research Fellow and expert in the study of homelessness. She sits within HHAUS, the Housing, Homelessness and Urban Studies Research Group, and is Deputy Director of the AHURI Swinburne Research Centre.

Deb’s work aims to:

·         Improve policy responses and services for people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness.

·         Increase understanding of homelessness and its causes

·         Improve data collected about homelessness and encourage it’s use in policy and service development

·         Improve the working conditions of homelessness and community sector workers

·         Inform the development of primary homeless prevention strategies and policy

·         Contribute to a more just society where homelessness will be ended

She is also interested in the different ways we might conceptualize and theorize about homelessness and social justice.

Her work is funded mainly through AHURI National Housing Research Program research grants, but also the ARC and NHMRC.

Deb is a regular contributor to SHS industry magazine Parity, a regular media contributor, holds a number of advisory roles, and has deep networks with the SHS and community sector.

Deb completed her PhD at Swinburne University of Technology and comes to academia after over two decades working in the Specialist Homelessness Sector (SHS).

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