Associate Professor Dr Peter Aning Tedong specialises in housing policy and governance, with a particular focus on vulnerable communities and the inequalities shaping their access to adequate housing, essential services, and urban opportunities. He joined the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Universiti Malaya in December 2014 and currently serves as Deputy Dean (Undergraduate) at the Faculty of Built Environment. He is also an affiliated researcher at CUSRI, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Previously, he served as Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (2023–2026) and Head of the Centre for Malaysian Indigenous Studies (2018–2023).

His research connects housing with broader questions of sustainable cities, spatial equity, poverty, and community well-being. He examines how planning decisions, governance arrangements, and socioeconomic conditions influence the lives of low-income households, informal housing residents, Indigenous communities, older persons, refugees, stateless populations, and migrant workers. His work on elderly housing explores how housing environments and support systems can enable inclusive ageing in place.

He has received numerous research grants from both the public and private sectors and has led several high-impact national and international projects. Notably, he served as Project Leader for the Family Wellbeing Index funded by the National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN), with findings published in the 13th Malaysia Plan (RMK13). He is also the Project Leader for a study on poverty alleviation funded by the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) Sarawak, and the Principal Investigator of a comparative study on informal housing in Makassar (Indonesia) and Sabah (Malaysia) funded by the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils (AASSREC).

His recently completed projects explored socio-spatial planning in the context of Malaysia’s urban future and the dynamics of poverty among Indigenous communities in rural areas. He has also conducted extensive work on the role of governance in addressing the needs of vulnerable communities—including refugees, stateless persons, and foreign workers—while examining broader issues of housing and migration in Malaysian cities.

His latest research interests center on multi-layered governance of affordable housing, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to neighborhood and community planning, and the impacts of migration on regional and urban development. While his empirical focus is on Southeast Asia, Dr. Peter Aning has also conducted fieldwork in Europe, the Borneo Islands, North America, and Oceania.