Fraser is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Geography, where he works on the Plumbing Poverty project led by Professor Katie Meehan and leads the project’s Dublin case study. The project draws on social reproduction, urban political ecology, and racial capitalism, coupled with ethnographic and census-based research, to investigate why household water insecurity arises and persists in wealthy cities and countries across the Global North.

Prior to this role, Fraser's PhD explored post-war histories of migration to Southall, West London and the role that kinship, familial, and community relations play in finding and financing housing. Drawing on a mix of archival and interview methods, his research examined how these histories complicate the categories of 'landlord' and 'tenant'.

Working at the intersection of housing, urban and development studies, Fraser has also conducted research on property guardianship in Dakar, Senegal, the impacts of debt on family homelessness, temporary accommodation and social housing allocation policy in England (with Professor Katherine Brickell), and young people's social infrastructures in East London.

Research

• Housing
• Postcolonial and Critical Urban Studies
• Property, rent and financialisation
• Urban Popular Economies
• Urban and Architectural History
• Political Ecology

Fraser is interested in everyday lived experiences of housing in marginalised and working-class communities. His work examines how housing – as both a commodity and form of shelter – interlocks with social, political and economic processes to (re)produce inequality and social difference and how diverse communities understand and resist these processes. His work has appeared in leading academic journals, including Antipode and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, informed government policy, and supported grassroots activism for social change.

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