Andrea Sharam

Dr. Andrea Sharam

Senior Lecturer

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About

Dr Andrea Sharam is RMIT-AHURI Research Centre Director and a Senior Lecturer within the School of Property, Construction & Project Management.

Dr Sharam is a national housing expert and researcher with an interest in:

market-based apartment development
non-market housing models (such as land trusts, cooperatives, non-profit housing and community housing)
social and affordable hosing
matching in housing markets.
She also has an interest in Property in the Not-For-Profit Sector.

Dr Sharam worked in the not-for-profit sector prior to joining academia. She worked in the housing, homelessness and community legal sectors. For four years (2004-2008) she was an elected councillor at the City of Moreland where she held positions relating to city development, planning & housing.

Research fields

  • 4407 Policy and administration
  • 3304 Urban and regional planning
  • 4406 Human geography
  • 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 3504 Commercial services
  • 3505 Human resources and industrial relations
  • 4409 Social work
  • 4410 Sociology

Teaching interests

Dr Sharam teaches Masters Research Design & Methods and Property Industry Project (capstone)

Research interests

Urban and Regional Planning, Policy and Administration, Public Health and Health Services, Economic Theory
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.