Dr. Louise Dorignon
Details
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Department: School of PCPM
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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louise.dorignon@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0003-0346-1606
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
- Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
- Media enquiries
- Membership of an advisory committee
- Mentoring (short-term)
- Technical support
About
Louise is a human geographer specialising in urban housing, home and the everyday politics of construction. Her work examines how apartments, modular and off-site construction, and other building methodologies shape residents’ daily lives, and how residents reinterpret and adapt to these systems. She focuses on what these lived experiences mean for future housing models and urban governance in Australia and Europe.
A Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University, Louise holds an ARC DECRA Fellowship (2024-2028) supporting her research on the lived experience of innovative housing. Her aim is to bring grounded evidence to debates on housing quality, sustainability and the long-term implications of construction innovation.
Louise collaborates with builders, manufacturers, developers, state and local governments, industry associations and policy-makers to understand how construction approaches and regulatory frameworks shape everyday life in apartments. She is particularly interested in the gaps between the promises of innovation and the realities experienced by households.
Her work is relevant to organisations exploring modular, off-site and mass-timber delivery; housing quality and resident wellbeing; medium- and high-density living; and the material politics of sustainability.
Research fields
- 330410 Urban analysis and development
- 4406 Human geography
- 33 Built environment and design
UN sustainable development goals
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
- 13 Climate Action
- 15 Life on Land
- 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
Academic positions
- ARC DECRA Fellow
- RMIT University
- Post-Carbon Research Centre, School of Property, Construction and Project Management
- Melbourne, Australia
- 7 Jul 2025 – 6 Jul 2028
- Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- RMIT University
- Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jul 2023 – Present
- Research Fellow, ARC Linkage HOME Project
- RMIT University
- Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jul 2019 – Jul 2023
- Research Assistant, Social and Cultural Geography, T&F journal
- University of Melbourne
- School of Geography
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2019 – 2019
- French Lectrice, Title A Fellow
- University of Cambridge
- Trinity College
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Sep 2013 – Jun 2014
Supervisor projects
- Resilience, Community and Displacement: A Study of Roma Refugees from Ukraine in Poland.
- 6 Feb 2023
