Robin Goodman

Robin Goodman is Emeritus Professor of Urban Planning at RMIT University. She was the Dean of the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies from 2017-2020. Prior to that she was the head of the Sustainability and Urban Planning discipline group from 2013-16. From 2009 to 2013 Robin was the Director of RMIT’s AHURI Research Centre and the inaugural Director of the Centre for Urban Research and for a year was concurrently the Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation. 

Robin is an urban planner with broad interests in many aspects of planning, housing, transport, sustainability and public policy. She continues to collaborate on research projects on issues around housing affordability, social and community infrastructure and strategic planning.  

Robin has always engaged with planning practice and was made a Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) in 2015, served on its National Education Committee for eight years, edited the Victorian and Tasmanian journal Planning News for two years and was the Chair of the Accreditation Panel for the New Zealand Planning Institute for a period prior to the pandemic. Robin has published widely on planning issues over a long period of time and is the co-author of Planning Melbourne: Lessons for a Sustainbile City (2016).