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I am an experienced professional with over 20 years in local government, specializing in housing and homelessness solutions. As the Head of Housing Solutions, I lead nine services and oversee a dedicated team of 100 employees committed to addressing critical housing challenges. My portfolio includes homelessness prevention, choice-based lettings, disabled facilities grants, private sector housing, rough sleeping support, temporary accommodation, and Central Suffolk Lettings. With a background in Economics and a postgraduate, I have also earned professional qualifications, including PRINCE2 certification and CIH Level 7 accreditation. These have equipped me with the skills to manage complex statutory housing requirements, develop effective policies, and deliver high-impact services. I am particularly passionate about tackling homelessness, rural housing challenges, and poverty. Recently, I worked on rural community-led housing projects, collaborating with Community Action Suffolk and Hastoe to address unique local needs. My approach combines strategic leadership with innovative service design, ensuring practical and sustainable solutions. Throughout my career, I have been driven by a commitment to improving outcomes for vulnerable populations. I pride myself on fostering collaboration, championing systemic change, and creating resilient services that adapt to evolving demands. Leading in this sector is both a challenge and a privilege, and I remain focused on making a tangible difference in people’s lives through innovative and compassionate housing solutions.

Economics • Housing Studies • Social Policy

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Private Rented Sector • Social Housing • Housing Finance and Economics • Comparative Housing Policy • Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability of Housing • Housing and New Technologies • Housing and Living Conditions of Ageing Populations • Housing and Young People • Housing Law • Residential Buildings and Architectural Design • Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion • Leadership, Management, Organisational Change and Culture • Healthy Housing

Sociology

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Economics • Housing Studies • Geography • Urban Studies

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Social Housing • Housing Finance and Economics • Housing Activism • Comparative Housing Policy • Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion • Healthy Housing

Architecture • Housing Studies • Urban Studies

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Social Housing • Collaborative Housing • Residential Buildings and Architectural Design • Healthy Housing

Housing Studies • Social Policy • Sociology • Socio-legal studies • Urban Studies

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Social Housing • Housing Activism • Comparative Housing Policy • Housing and New Technologies • Housing and Living Conditions of Ageing Populations • Housing and Young People • Housing Law • Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion • Healthy Housing

Architecture • Planning • Urban Studies

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Social Housing • Housing Finance and Economics • Collaborative Housing • Comparative Housing Policy • Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability of Housing • Healthy Housing

Housing Studies

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Private Rented Sector • Social Housing • Housing Finance and Economics • Housing Activism • Housing Education and Pedogagy • Collaborative Housing • Comparative Housing Policy • Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability of Housing • Housing and New Technologies • Housing and Living Conditions of Ageing Populations • Housing and Young People • Housing Law • Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion • Leadership, Management, Organisational Change and Culture • Healthy Housing

Psychology • Social Policy

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Criminology • Housing Studies • Philosophy • Psychology • Social Policy

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Private Rented Sector • Social Housing • Housing Activism • Housing Education and Pedogagy • Collaborative Housing • Housing and Living Conditions of Ageing Populations • Housing and Young People • Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion • Healthy Housing

Economics

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Private Rented Sector • Social Housing • Housing Finance and Economics • Comparative Housing Policy • Housing and Living Conditions of Ageing Populations • Housing and Young People

Housing Studies • Social Policy • Socio-legal studies • Urban Studies

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Private Rented Sector • Social Housing • Housing Finance and Economics • Housing Education and Pedogagy • Collaborative Housing • Comparative Housing Policy • Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability of Housing • Housing and New Technologies • Housing and Living Conditions of Ageing Populations • Housing and Young People • Housing Law • Residential Buildings and Architectural Design • Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion • Leadership, Management, Organisational Change and Culture • Healthy Housing

Oscar Durán is the Founding Principal of Black Sailboat Community Development in Fremont, Nebraska, USA. His work bridges frontline community work with applied research focused on how individual and partnership cluster energy flow through civic systems and shape collective momentum, cohesion, and fracture. His research centers on The State of Us, an emerging framework grounded in long term field observation across communities and civic partnerships, informed by concepts of energy, flow, and interaction drawn from systems thinking and applied physics. It identifies six universal civic states and examines how states and energy move between people and institutions through everyday community work. His approach is rooted in the gemba, where community work actually happens, and advocates a proactive, disciplined, and collaborative form of research that integrates academic inquiry, embedded field research, and practitioner reflection, and is intentionally tested in practice to move the science forward. He is currently applying The State of Us within his own professional and community networks and is building a praxis matrix and taxonomy for community work using visual inquiry and analytic mapping. He is also preparing The Garden Regions of Tomorrow: Reviving Our Civic Imagination, a narrative white paper series advancing a new praxis for frontline community work.

Housing Studies • Psychology • Social Policy • Sociology • Urban Studies

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Private Rented Sector • Social Housing • Housing Finance and Economics • Housing Activism • Housing Education and Pedogagy • Collaborative Housing • Comparative Housing Policy • Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability of Housing • Housing and Young People • Residential Buildings and Architectural Design • Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion • Leadership, Management, Organisational Change and Culture • Healthy Housing

Architecture • Housing Studies • Planning • Social Policy • Sociology • Socio-legal studies • Technology • Urban Studies

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Social Housing • Housing Activism • Housing Education and Pedogagy • Collaborative Housing • Housing Law • Healthy Housing

Sociology

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Private Rented Sector • Social Housing • Housing Finance and Economics • Housing Activism • Housing Education and Pedogagy • Collaborative Housing • Comparative Housing Policy • Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability of Housing • Housing and New Technologies • Housing and Living Conditions of Ageing Populations • Housing Law • Residential Buildings and Architectural Design • Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion • Leadership, Management, Organisational Change and Culture • Healthy Housing

Dr Fraser's research primarily focuses on Takatāpui / LGBTIQ+ communities' experiences of housing and homelessness. Their PhD was the first in Aotearoa to explore experiences of homelessness amongst people who identify as Takatāpui / LGBTIQ+. Their postdoctoral fellowship explored housing instability amongst this community, using both qualitative and quantitative data in order to guide policy and practice. They are also involved in projects looking at homelessness and Housing First, children and young people's experiences of the housing support system, and public housing in Aotearoa. Dr Fraser has a background in political science, and their previous research has looked at modes of political participation amongst LGBTIQ+ youth. They have experience working in parliamentary politics, and have a strong activist background. As a member of the LGBTIQ+ community, they are passionate about promoting equity and have been working and volunteering in the community for over a decade.

Housing Studies • Social Policy

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Private Rented Sector • Social Housing • Housing Activism • Housing and Young People • Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion

Architecture • Housing Studies

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Housing Education and Pedogagy • Housing and Living Conditions of Ageing Populations • Residential Buildings and Architectural Design • Healthy Housing

Housing Studies • Law • Psychology • Social Policy • Sociology • Urban Studies

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Social Housing • Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability of Housing • Residential Buildings and Architectural Design

I have 4000+ hours teaching experience in Housing Studies since my first Lectureship in 1991. I graduated from Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1988 in Urban Studies. My final year dissertation was on the work of Manuel Castells and in particular Urban Social Movements. In 1989, I graduated from the University of Sussex with an ESRC-funded MA in Urban and Regional Studies. My MSc dissertation was a critical realist analysis of housing tenure and housing design and the meaning of home. From 1989-1991 I was a full-time ESRC funded PhD student at the School for Advanced Urban Studies (SAUS), University of Bristol. I successfully defended my PhD thesis is 1995 on the meanings of home and home ownership. After briefly working as a Research Assistant on a Department of the Environment funded project on Council House re-sales I joined Sheffield Hallam University in 1991 as a Temporary Lecturer in Urban Sociology and Politics. I moved to Cardiff University in 1996 to take up a lectureship in Housing where I led the MSc Housing Programme and the PGR Programme for the School of City and Regional Planning. Whilst at Cardiff I also had part-time roles teaching health policy in the Centre for Continuing Education and sociology in the School of Modern Languages. Whilst at Cardiff I won several awards for excellence and innovation in teaching and recorded my first TedX Talk on Housing and Harm. In 2020, I moved to the School of Social and Political Science (Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy) at the University of Glasgow. I am now a Senior Lecturer in Housing Studies, Programme Director for the MSc/PGDip Housing Studies Programme and have led on Social Work and Social Policy and Human Geography and Environmental Planning pathways for the Scottish Graduate School in Social Sciences. I rejoined the Management Board of the Housing Studies Association in 2023 having previously been on the board in 1998-2001. I am currently on the Management Board of CIH Scotland and am a former Chair of Cynon Taf Community Housing Group. My research interests include: The meaning of home and home ownership; Housing and social theory; Housing, social harm and the social determinants of health; Social Murder; Housing consumption and identity; Housing and mental health; Critical pedagogy in housing Studies; Social Constructionism; The social construction of homelessness; On-line learning; Housing and Professionalism.

Housing Studies • Social Policy • Sociology • Urban Studies

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