Current Projects
2020 (ongoing)
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Current Projects
2018–2020
We are working with RMIT scientists and engineers to help water utilities, the Environment Protection Authority and the Victorian Government reduce climate change risks and produce new resources.
Current Projects
2019–2020
This research project contributes towards a more sophisticated, reflexive and contextualised understanding of research impact.
Current Projects
2020–2022
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 work s in practice.
Current Projects
2020 (ongoing)
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.
Current Projects
2019–2022
In an economic hegemony underwritten by the burning of fossil fuels – the fossil fuel regime – meeting the challenge of climate change will alter patterns of production and consumption and have far-reaching consequences for workers.
Current Projects
2019–2020
Working with the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union, we are exploring the possibilities of a Green Job Guarantee in the Australian context.
Current Projects
2017–2020
A climate change adaptation monitoring, evaluation and reporting tool, designed with and for Victorian local governments.
Current Projects
2019 (ongoing)
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.
Current Projects
2017–2020
Policy@RMIT (P@R) aims to study and enable collaborations between researchers and policy practitioners in co-producing research that supports evidence-informed policy in addressing major policy and societal issues.
Current Projects
2019 (ongoing)
The Climate Change Exchange is a project that is establishing a collaborative climate change research-practice network to meet the knowledge sharing, capacity building, and research needs of various government and policy stakeholders.
Current Projects
2018–2022
The PhD project is informed by an interpretivist theoretical approach, to look at the comparative case studies of Melbourne and Dhaka. The findings will be informed by semi-structured interviews, secondary document analysis, and a literature review.
Current Projects
2017–2020
This project provides links between RMIT academics working on climate change with civil society groups and individuals whose work has a similar focus.
Current Projects
2019–2023
This project aims to investigate how media technologies can facilitate cross-cultural engagement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
Current Projects
2019 (ongoing)
This research is concerned with the collection, digitisation and use of housing information in Australia.
Current Projects
2019–2020
This project investigates drivers and processes of change within Australian metropolitan transport systems to identify future options and directions for policy development.
Current Projects
2019–2021
This international research project is examining citizens’ use of the Internet and social media to participate in urban development processes, and city governments’ efforts to engage and respond to citizens through these channels.
Current Projects
2019–2020
Along with our Department of Health and South Australia Health partners, this project builds on our national liveability indicator work to improve understandings of the relationship between built environments, daily activities and travel choices.
Current Projects
(ongoing)
Designing cities to promote health and well-being: the HABITAT multilevel longitudinal study of Brisbane (Australia) neighbourhoods and their ‘baby boomer’ residents.
Current Projects
2018–2020
This project aims to develop a Resilience Action Plan with and for the Tarnagulla community.
Current Projects
2018–2020
RMIT urban health scholars will partner with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to develop and test a suite of open source liveability indicators aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals for the city of Bangkok.
Current Projects
2018 (ongoing)
A scorecard and priority recommendations for Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane developed using results from the 'Creating Liveable Cities in Australia' (2017) report.
Current Projects
2018–2021
This project aims to provide an analysis of housing retrofit and its links with household energy costs.
