Activating social connection to address isolation in Australia
Australian Research Council Linkage Project 2022–2025
Joining Impact models of transport with spatial measures of the Built Environment (JIBE)
Bringing together Australian and UK urban experts to virtually model and test the benefits of transport planning in creating healthier and sustainable cities across both countries.
Voicing First Nations Country, community, and culture in urban policy
This research project, funded by AHURI, collaborates with First Nations custodians in major urban centres to learn from and listen to their experience of attempting to engage with urban policymakers intervening on their Country.
Housing Energy Efficiency Transitions
This project investigates the lived experience of energy poverty and low carbon retrofit in Australian households, in addition to investigating the scaling up of retrofit service providers.
Housing temporary migrants: investigating challenges and policy opportunities
This Investigative Panel establishes the housing circumstances and experiences of temporary visa holders (TVHs) in Australia and provides critical evidence of challenges and opportunities in the development of housing policy and service provision.
Understanding the drivers and outcomes of public housing relocation
The project aimed to understand what drives the need for tenant relocation in public housing and how such drivers mediate practices and resident experiences.
Transport Health Assessment Tool for Brisbane (THAT-Brisbane)
THAT-Brisbane builds on THAT-Melbourne, a Planning Institute of Australia Award winning tool for measuring life-time health benefits from walking and cycling.
Getting off the waiting list: Changing access to housing assistance
This project is part of the ‘Inquiry into supporting pathways in a social housing system’, led by Chris Martin (UNSW).
Upper Stony Creek transformation: Impact on health, liveability, and connection to nature
This project will collect qualitative data after the transformation of the Upper Stony Creek, to better understand how urban greening projects impact resident perceptions of wellbeing, especially in disadvantaged areas with a lack of greenspace.
Digital innovations, PropTech and housing – the view from Melbourne
This research is concerned with the collection, digitisation and use of housing information in Australia.
Onsets not offsets for real biodiversity gains
This project will make conceptual and methodological advancements required to develop a working approach for onsets. Case studies in urban development and agriculture will highlight how the approach works in practice.
Building materials in a circular economy
This project uses a circular economy framing to investigate use and waste in material supply chains to contribute knowledge so that the housing construction sector can reduce, reuse, recycle and recover resources and rely much less on virgin material.
