19th European Research Conference on Home­less­ness

Lia van Doorn, NL is a professor and chair of the Research Group ‘Housing and Welfare’ of Utrecht University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht. She has over 30 years of experience in research focusing on homelessness. She conducted a PhD at University Utrecht on a longitudinal study of a cohort of homeless people in Utrecht (1993-2000).

Dorieke Wewerinke, NL is a senior researcher at Research Group ‘Housing and Welfare’ of Utrecht University of Applied   Sciences. Her research focuses on prevention of and solutions for homelessness, with specific expertise on Housing First, the   ETHOS-definition, social integration and destigmatization. She leads the ETHOS counts of homelessness in the Netherlands.

Peter Mackie, UK is a professor in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University, where his research and advisory work are centred on homelessness prevention. He has been involved in the global expansion of the ‘Upstream’ homelessness prevention intervention, which focuses on supporting children and young people in schools. Peter is a founding editor of the International Journal on Homelessness and serves as Chair of Llamau, Wales’s leading youth homelessness charity.

Gregg Colburn, US is an associate professor in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington in Seattle. He studies housing policy, housing markets, and homelessness and is co-author of the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (University of California Press, 2022). Gregg also serves as a member of the research council of the National Alliance to End Homelessness (U.S.).