Geographies of Land, Home and Place

Geographies of Land, Home and Place brings together our expertise in understanding the places and land systems on which we live, how we are housed and the social geographies of inclusion and belonging.

Geographies of Land, Home and Place

Our research engages directly with geography as a discipline from a local to global scale, engaging with ideas like space, place, temporality and human-environment relations. Our disciplinary engagement with geography also extends to critical understandings of issues like governance, institutions and socio-ecological change.

We interpret the ‘urban’ focus of the centre broadly, with an interest in the processes and relations across scales and over time that shape our lives.

Research focus areas include housing, land, urban policy, homelessness, displacement and dispossession, inclusion, urban ecologies, social and cultural issues and urban cultures.

Acknowledgement of country

Research that is concerned with themes of land, home and place in the context of colonial systems and institutions has a responsibility to engage with First Nations sovereignty and self-determination.

Members of the Geographies of Land, Home and Place research theme acknowledge that sovereignty over the land on which we conduct much of our work has never been ceded. We acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and acknowledge unceded sovereignty over lands and water across the continent.

We recognise Ancestors and Elders past and present, and their ongoing cultural responsibilities to Country and its care. We are committed to supporting caring for Country in our work and professional conduct.

Key people

Ben Cooke
Associate Director, Geographies of Land, Home and Place
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Iris Levin
Deputy Associate Director, Geographies of Land, Home and Place
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David Kelly
Deputy Associate Director, Geographies of Land, Home and Place
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Priya Kunjan
Mittul Vahanvati
Nicola Willand
Jean Hillier Micheal Berry
Louise Dorignon
Benno Engels
Nicolas Guerra Rodrigues Tao
Gavin A. Wood
Jindan Ni
Susan McCallum
Joseph van Buuren
Glenda Mejia
Melissa Laing
Anthony Gordon Kent
Imogen Carr
Clare McCracken
Patrick O’Keeffe
Alejandra Cortes Fuentes
Karien Dekker
Declan Martin
Sarah Barns
Robyn Martin
Haidee Hicks
Julie Lawson
Ellen van Holstein

Higher Degree research students

Abdullah Al Zubaer
Tarun
Rachel Iampolski
Farhana Akther
Hourn Sen
Alfred Gasore
Roman Aizengendler

Projects

Innovation in Local Government Housing

This project uses case studies, supported by literature review, to provide insights for Local Government interventions for improving housing outcomes, and to play a crucial role in addressing the prevailing issues with housing supply in Australia.

Towards climate resilient families

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

Deep Timetable: A Noongar Rail History

The Project will advance a new relational logic and a history that enhances the capacity of regional planning and development authorities in their future relationship with Indigenous people.

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.

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