Rate My Professor Elinor Chisholm

Chisholm's research specializations encompass housing and health intersections, including eviction experiences, Healthy Housing Initiatives, mixed tenure communities, impacts of housing interventions on wellbeing, ventilation behaviors, community facilities in multi-unit dwellings, and neighborhood perceptions among public housing tenants. Key publications include 'Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals: lessons learned and ways forward' (Sustainability Science, 2018, co-authored with M. Nilsson et al.), 'LGBTIQ+ homelessness: A review of the literature' (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019), 'Tenants’ responses to substandard housing: Hidden and invisible power and the failure of rental housing regulation' (Housing, Theory & Society, 2020), 'Setting housing standards to improve global health' (International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 2017), and recent works such as 'Like a family without being a family': Social connectedness between social housing tenants in Aotearoa New Zealand (Wellbeing, Space & Society, 2026) and 'A century of renter activism in Aotearoa New Zealand' (chapter in Rent strikes, 2025). Her collaborations with scholars like Philippa Howden-Chapman and Nevil Pierse have advanced evidence on housing policy, sustainable development, and health equity in New Zealand and globally, evidenced by highly cited contributions influencing international discourse on healthier housing standards.