Rate My Professor David Adamson

Adamson's research specializations include the health and wellbeing of Australian social housing tenants compared to other housing types, health literacy across housing tenures, sustainable places tackling social inequality and environmental crises, co-production in social housing, place-based interventions, social segregation, poverty in post-industrial communities, drug education, and social class and ethnicity in historical contexts. Key publications feature the book Sustainable Places: Addressing Social Inequality and Environmental Crisis (2022), "The health and wellbeing of Australian social housing tenants compared to people living in other types of housing" (2023), "How Does the Health Literacy of Adults Residing in Social Housing Compare with That of Those Living in Other Housing Tenures in Australia? A Secondary Analysis of the Australian National Health Survey 2017–2018 Dataset" (2023), "The wellbeing needs of social housing tenants in Australia: an exploratory study" (2022), and the chapter "Two modes of co-production in social housing. Comparing the UK and Australia" (2020). Earlier contributions include "Still Living on the Edge?" (2008), "Community Empowerment: Learning from Practice in Community Regeneration" (2013), and various chapters on regeneration and social structure. His scholarship has garnered 70 citations. Adamson received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010 for regenerating poor communities in Europe and holds roles such as Chair of the Australasian Housing Institute’s Sustainability Community of Practice, World Urban Campaign City Changer, and Member of the Hunter SDG Taskforce. Since 2015 in Australia, he has advanced national housing strategies and UN Sustainable Development Goals initiatives.