Hal Pawson is Professor Housing Research and Policy and Associate Director at UNSW’s City Futures Research Centre. In this role he has led numerous major research projects funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI),by the Australian Research Council (ARC), and by non-government agencies Hal’s key interests include housing policy governance and strategy, private rental housing, social and affordable housing, and urban renewal. From 2011-19 Hal served as Australasian Editor for the international journal Housing Studies; from 2019-23 he was a Housing Studies Managing Editor. Before moving to UNSW, Hal worked at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh from 1995-2011. He retains an Honorary Professorship at Heriot-Watt and is also an Associate of Sheffield University’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. In 2023 he became a non-Executive Director of Community Housing Canberra.