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Personal profile
Biography
Alistair commenced a Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) in the Discipline of Geography and Planning in January 2023. He is an early career researcher whose work focuses on housing, planning and urban development.
Research interests
Alistair is interested in the political and economic dynamics of housing and cities. His doctoral research examined the politics of public housing policy in Australia with a focus on estate redevelopment and particularly the Waterloo estate. His subsequent research has included affordability and security in the private rental sector, the politics and economics of urban densification, and emerging trends in urban governance.
Alistair’s current MQRF project is titled ‘The politics of housing data’. The project is a critical analysis of the ways that contemporary housing problems are quantified and how data is used to frame the housing crisis.
Teaching
In 2025 Alistair is teaching
- GEOP2010/6080 Theory and Methods in Geography and Planning
- GEOP3090 Thinking Space
- GEOP2070 Urban Dynamics: Population, Housing and Regeneration
- SCCI1002 Social Sciences in Action
Education/Academic qualification
Geography, PhD, University of Sydney
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Research Outputs
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Bloomberg's global mayoralty: philanthropy and the 'crisis of capacity' in city government
Baker, T., Sisson, A., McGuirk, P., Dowling, R. & Maalsen, S., 18 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bourdieu down under
Sisson, A., 19 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Dialogues in Urban Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review
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Calculating the system-wide supply impacts of social housing estate renewal: new measures and methods
Sisson, A. & Ruming, K., 17 Jul 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Housing Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”
McGuirk, P., Baker, T., Dowling, R., Maalsen, S. & Sisson, A., 31 Dec 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Urban Geography. 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How can scholarship contribute to housing justice? Three roles for researchers
Chatterjee, P., Sisson, A. & Condie, J., 2024, In: Housing, Theory and Society. 41, 5, p. 591-607 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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