Professor - ARC Future Fellow
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Arts Building |
| Room Reference | 486 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2928 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2279 |
| Keith.Jacobs@utas.edu.au |
UTAS Web Access Research Portal (WARP) - lists Keith's funded projects, graduate research supervision and publication information.
Prior coming to Tasmania, Keith's previous posts have included principal lecturer and subject leader in housing studies at the University of Westminster, and principal policy officer for the London Borough of Newham.
He has published widely on housing and urban policy issues, and is the author of The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy published by Ashgate Press (1999) and Social Constructionism in Housing Research (2004) edited with Jim Kemeny and Tony Manzi (Ashgate Press).
Since moving to Australia in 2002, he established the Housing and Community Research Unit (HACRU) and was chief investigator on a number of Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) funded research projects (see AHURI for more details).
Keith's most recent publications include: a monograph - Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Australian Migration(Ashgate Press, 2011) and an edited collection (with Jeff Malpas) - Between the Ocean and the Outback: Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Australia (UWA Publishing 2011). Keith has recently been awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship 2012-2016 to undertake a sociological investigation of key housing problems in contemporary Australia.
Keith is also a member of the editorial board for the journal Housing Studies, and the international advisory board of Housing, Theory and Society.