Emeritus Professor Chris Chamberlain
Emeritus Professor
Details
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College: Design and Social Context
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Department: Design and Social Context
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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chris.chamberlain@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Chris Chamberlain is an expert on homelessness.
Chris is the joint author/editor of Youth Homelessness (1998), Counting the Homeless 2001 (2003), Counting the Homeless 2006 (2008), and Homelessness in Australia (2014).
Chris developed a methodology with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for counting the homeless population using Census data. Counting the Homeless 2006 found that the number of homeless people had increased from 99,900 in 2001 to 105,000 in 2006. These findings influenced the Commonwealth Government’s white paper on homelessness (The Road Home, 2008) which set the target to halve homelessness by 2020. Chris was invited to attend the 2020 Summit in Parliament House, Canberra, because of his expertise on homelessness. Since 2011, the ABS has published official estimates of the homeless population using Census data.
Chris has also undertaken research on homeless school students, pathways into adult homelessness, the number of rough sleepers in Australia, and whether substance abuse normally precedes or follows homelessness. Chris is the author of articles on homelessness in the International Encyclopedia of Social Policy, the International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, the Journal of Sociology and Australian Social Work.
Chris is the joint author/editor of Youth Homelessness (1998), Counting the Homeless 2001 (2003), Counting the Homeless 2006 (2008), and Homelessness in Australia (2014).
Chris developed a methodology with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for counting the homeless population using Census data. Counting the Homeless 2006 found that the number of homeless people had increased from 99,900 in 2001 to 105,000 in 2006. These findings influenced the Commonwealth Government’s white paper on homelessness (The Road Home, 2008) which set the target to halve homelessness by 2020. Chris was invited to attend the 2020 Summit in Parliament House, Canberra, because of his expertise on homelessness. Since 2011, the ABS has published official estimates of the homeless population using Census data.
Chris has also undertaken research on homeless school students, pathways into adult homelessness, the number of rough sleepers in Australia, and whether substance abuse normally precedes or follows homelessness. Chris is the author of articles on homelessness in the International Encyclopedia of Social Policy, the International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, the Journal of Sociology and Australian Social Work.
Academic positions
- Director
- RMIT University
- Centre for Applied Social Research
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2005 – 2013
- Associate Professor
- RMIT University
- Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
- , Australia
- 2002 – 2005
Teaching interests
Youth and adult homelessness; applied social research; social class and inequality; contemporary housing policy; youth issues.
Research interests
Policy and Administration, Human Geography, Sociology, Social Work, Criminology, Urban and Regional Planning
