Current projects

The High Life project examines the interplay between apartment design policy, the design and location of apartment buildings, and residents’ health and wellbeing outcomes in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.

Mapping intersections of gender and place-based responses to summer heat vulnerability.

The overarching aim of this project is to enhance the resilience of the city and its inhabitants to current and future climate impacts and natural disasters.

This project is part of the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Transformation of Reclaimed Waste Resources to Engineered Materials and Solutions for a Circular Economy (TREMS), which will address the urgent waste crisis in Australia.

This study looks at how urban canopy cover can be expanded to keep cities cool during heatwaves.

This project develops an evidence-based framework for expanding Australia’s social and affordable rental housing through cost-based rents, long-term public-interest finance, regulated providers, asset protection and revolving investment that builds lasting affordability and public value.

The TRASH project is an action research project that will test and trial novel co-designed interventions in Multi-Unit Developments across Melbourne and Sydney. These interventions will be developed with residents and stakeholders to improve waste outcomes.

This project aims to investigate how households can play an active role in system change toward resource-efficiency across energy, water, food and waste. Urban resource inefficiency is a complex and significant problem.

A digital platform to map liveability in LGAs across Australia.

This project will help us better understand multidimensional, cascading, and compounding disaster impacts (known and emergent), and the vulnerabilities and resilience of major urban areas in Australia.

The aim of this project is to draw on local and international expertise to develop and disseminate new models and planning guidelines for 21st century municipal markets in Victoria.

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