Rachael Scicluna

Dr Rachael Scicluna is a globally recognised applied urban anthropologist and senior housing policy consultant with over 15 years advising governments, the EU, and the United Nations on housing, urban resilience, and community-led design across Europe and Australia. As Chairperson of the Guardian for Future Generations, she ensures policy alignment with intergenerational equity, climate resilience, and the lived realities of diverse communities. She transforms complex qualitative research into actionable, equitable urban strategies using ethnographic fieldwork, participatory methods, contextual analysis, and systems thinking, ensuring projects are culturally grounded and designed to live for generations.

• The Resident Housing Guide, SOS Malta, 2024
• Roofs and Rights: Intersectional Discrimination in Housing, SOS Malta, 2022
• Home and Sexuality: The 'Other' Side of the Kitchen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
• Multiple peer-reviewed articles, Families, Relationships and Societies, Home Cultures, and Bloomsbury volumes

• Climate-Neutral Housing, UNECE, Helsinki
• Housing Discrimination and Migration, EU-CERV-2021
• Changing ‘Homes’, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
• Towards Sustainable Homes, UNECE, UN-Habitat

• Europe
• Australia

• Prof. Sue Heath, University of Manchester, sue.heath@manchester.ac.uk
• Prof. Sarah Green, University of Helsinki, sarah.green@helsinki.fi
• Dr. Kevin Gatt, University of Malta, kevin.gatt@um.edu.mt
• Prof. Julie Lawson, RMIT Melbourne, julie.lawson@rmit.edu.au

• Chairperson, Guardian for Future Generations, 01/01/22 – Present
• Board Member, National Commission for the Promotion of Equality, 01/01/22 – Present
• Chairperson, Sustainable Communities Board, Housing Authority, 01/01/19 – 12/31/22

• Engagement, Community, and Strategy Consultant, European City of Culture, 01/01/24 – Present
• Chairperson, Guardian for Future Generations, 01/01/22 – Present
• Senior Lead Consultant, SOS Malta (EU CERV Projects on housing, migration, hate speech), 01/01/22 – Present
• Consultant, UNECE #Housing2030, 01/01/20 – 12/31/23
• Lead Author and Researcher, Malta National Housing Strategy, Sustainable Communities Policy, 01/01/19 – 12/31/22
• Lecturer, Department of Spatial Planning and Infrastructure, University of Malta, 01/01/20 – 12/31/24