Current Projects
2018–2024
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. The project provides a socio-material analysis of retrofit t
Current Projects
2021 (ongoing)
Activity-based and agent-based Transport model of Melbourne.
Current Projects
2024–2025
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.
Current Projects
2023–2026
The project investigates the liveability factors that influence healthy ageing.
Current Projects
2024–2025
Mapping intersections of gender and place-based responses to summer heat vulnerability.
Current Projects
2024–2029
Developing new safe cycling indicators for inclusion in the Australian Urban Observatory digital liveability platform
Current Projects
2022–2025
RMIT’s Healthy Liveable Cities Lab’s city-wide transport and health simulation model aims to support equitable access to walking and cycling across Greater Melbourne.
Current Projects
2021–2025
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.
Current Projects
2022–2024
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.
Current Projects
2023–2026
This project investigates contemporary conditions of dwelling precarity on stolen Indigenous land.
Current Projects
2023 (ongoing)
Cafe Lab is a zero-waste food justice cafe that aims to support insecure Melburnians and contribute to building a sustainable and low carbon hospitality sector.
Current Projects
2023–2024
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.
Current Projects
2022 (ongoing)
Urbanisation and global environmental change are two of the most significant challenges facing cities and societies in the Global South. These challenges are particularly acute in developing countries in the Asia Pacific region.
Current Projects
2022–2024
More an ongoing effort than a 'project', CUR has a been a strong supporter and participant in the knowledge exchange for recovery, working intensely with Ukrainian housing and urban researchers, since the escalation of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Current Projects
2022 (ongoing)
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.
Current Projects
2022–2026
This project is investigating the impacts of high-density housing on public transport use and service provision to directly inform policy and practice for reducing passenger overcrowding and enhancing liveability in cities.
Current Projects
2018–2026
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.
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
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 (ongoing)
Researchers and research institutions are increasingly required to demonstrate research impact, but what exactly is research impact and how should we approach it, given the complex challenges the world faces?
Current Projects
2020 (ongoing)
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