Hamish Kallin is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh, who has published on a broad range of issues relating to housing justice and urban transformation.
Neil Gray is an urban theorist based at the University of Glasgow. He is the editor of Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Urban Struggle, and is currently completing a monograph provisionally entitled, Take over the City: Spatial Composition in 1970s Italy (Common Notions Press).
Joe Beswick organises with the London Renters Union. Damian Dempsey has been involved in his local tenants union (Living Rent) branch and is contributing to a position paper on expanding public housing for the organisation. He is pursuing a PhD in Public Policy at the University of the West of Scotland, researching housing policy formation in devolved Scotland.
Siobhan Donnachie has been a tenant organiser for the past eight years in Manchester and London. Currently organises with London Renters Union.
Tommy Gavin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His PhD project investigates the politicisation of residential urban vacancy and the direct action strategies of housing justice movements. His project is partnered with the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) in a participatory action research partnership that involves the co-construction of the institutional CATU Archive.
Jennie Gustafsson, PhD, works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Urban Studies, Malmö university. Her research concerns rental housing, municipal governance, and housing inequality, bridging the fields of human and economic geography, political economy, and housing research.
Konstantin A. Kholodilin graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University in 1995. In 2003, he obtained his PhD from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and in 2012 his Dr. habilitatus from Europa-Universität Viadrina. In 2001–2004, he was researcher at Université Catholique de Louvain. Since 2005, he is senior researcher at DIW Berlin.
Oksana Mironova writes about housing and cities. Read more of her work at oksana.nyc.
Edna Monroy is from Guerrero Mexico and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. They began organizing as a youth when their high school was at risk of losing its accreditation. Monroy is the director of organizing in the tenant protections team at Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE).
Jaime Palomera is a Doctor in Anthropology, housing researcher and activist. He cofounded the Barcelona Urban Research Institute (IDRA), the Sindicat de Llogateres (SLC), and Reviu (an online portal for home reviews).
Maria Persdotter holds a PhD degree in Urban studies and works as a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Local Government Studies at Linköping University. Her research interests span the fields of critical urban, migration and social policy studies, with a focus on questions related migrant accommodation and housing.
Ana Vilenica is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at DIST, Polytechnic and University of Turin and a core member of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab. She is a member of the Radical Housing Journal Editorial collective and the Feminist Autonomous Centre for research (FAC research).
Maria Wallstam is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University. Her PhD research explores the relationship between the deregulation of housing finance and the restructuring of the residential construction sector and associated labour market since 1980.