Associate Professor Karien Dekker
Details
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College: School of PCPM
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Department: School of PCPM
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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karien.dekker@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Karien's life revolves around a greater desire to create inclusive communities in which everyone feels welcome. She is also passionate about affordable housing for all. To inform policy and public opinion, she interprets large datasets, while making sense of the findings with interviews and observations.
Research fields
- 4406 Human geography
- 4410 Sociology
UN sustainable development goals
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
Academic positions
- Associate Professor
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jul 2014 – Present
- Assistant Professor
- Utrecht University
- Sociology
- Utrecht, Netherlands
- 1 Jul 2013 – 30 Jun 2014
- Assistant Professor
- Utrecht University
- Sociology
- Utrecht, Netherlands
- 1 Jan 2006 – 31 Jul 2011
- Research Fellow
- Utrecht University
- Geosciences
- , Netherlands
- 1 Jan 2001 – 1 Jan 2006
- Research Fellow
- Utrecht University
- Geosciences
- , The Netherlands
- 1 Jan 1996 – 1 Jan 1997
Non-academic positions
- Principal
- Protestants Christelijk Onderwijs Utrecht
- Utrecht, Netherlands
- 1 Aug 2011 – 31 Jul 2013
- Project Manager
- Wonen en Milieu BV
- Consultancy
- Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 1 Jan 1999 – 1 Jan 2001
- Project manager
- City of Utrecht
- Urban Development
- , The Netherlands
- 1 Jan 1997 – 1 Jan 1998
Supervisor projects
- Neighbourhood Connections of Iranian Migrants in Melbourne, Australia
- 5 Nov 2020
- Agonistic Navigating: Exploring and (Re)configuring Youth Participation in Design
- 12 Feb 2019
- The Governance of Urban Greenspace in Dhaka City, Bangladesh
- 3 Sep 2018
Teaching interests
Karien teaches Research Project 1 and 2 (BUIL1306/7) for Honours students Property and Valuation, as well as the Introduction to Property (OMGT2241).
Supervisor interests
Social cohesion, Urban governance, Community participation, Europe, The Netherlands, Ethnic diversity, Neighbourhood regeneration, Social network analyses, Multi-level regression analysis, Qualitative research, Internationally comparative research, Housing, Ethnic multi-group perspective, Social capital, Affordable housing
Research interests
Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Human Geography, Policy and Administration, Applied Economics, Cultural Studies
Karien's passion and research focuses on designing inclusive communities. She is Chief Investigator on an investigative panel "Housing temporary migrants: investigating challenges and policy opportunities" funded by AHURI National Housing Research Program (with UniSA, University of Sydney, University of Tasmania), 2023-2024.
Engagement:
Karien is leader of the Housing@RMIT network, co-convenor of the Housing Theme in the Post-Carbon Research Centre, as well as leader of the Academic Development Program for RMIT. She has held roles as Acting Associate Dean Research and Director Higher Degree by Research in the past.
