Dr Catherine Robinson

Associate Professor in Housing and Communities, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania

Catherine Robinson is Associate Professor in Communities and Social Justice at the University of Tasmania and a Board Director of Homelessness Australia, the Youth Network of Tasmania, and Colony 47, a specialist youth homelessness organisation in Tasmania.  Based in the School of Social Sciences at UTAS, Catherine leads a research and impact program addressing complex social harms in Tasmania and beyond.  The current focus of her work is on strengthening policy and service responses to unaccompanied child and youth homelessness and rough sleeping.  During her career Catherine has also worked in frontline and research capacities in the community sector with the Salvation Army in Sydney and Anglicare Tasmania in Hobart.  Catherine is also known for her work with Blackfella Films as Series Consultant and Co-Host of the SBS factual documentary Filthy Rich and Homeless.