Catherine Hastings

Dr Catherine Hastings has a PhD in Sociology and is currently a Research Fellow at the Macquarie Law School at Macquarie University, Australia. Her interdisciplinary research concentrates on understanding issues of social justice and
inequality alongside developing and evaluating policy and program responses for social change. Recent focus areas include legal need for clients of the legal assistance sector, housing policy and homelessness.
The philosophy of critical realism informs her work. Her methodological research aims to extend how social science research and complexity-informed evaluation methodologies may operationalise critical realist ideas to deliver more transformative findings.