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Alison Blunt is Deputy Vice Principal for Impact (Culture, Civic, Community) and Professor of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. She is founding co-director of the Centre for Studies of Home, a partnership between Queen Mary and the Museum of the Home. Her research on home, migration, and the city has been funded by the AHRC, the ESRC, and The Leverhulme Trust. She is the academic lead on 'Stay Home Stories', a project funded by the AHRC as part of the UKRI rapid response to COVID-19.

Robyn Dowling is Dean of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. She has an abiding interest in how people make home in cities and dwellings. Her current research focuses on urban governance responses to climate change, technological disruptions, and innovation.