Past 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.
Past Projects
2018–2022
Building Connections is investigating how best to plan, design, govern and manage schools to operate successfully as ‘more than a school’, encouraging the development of resilient and connected communities.
Past Projects
2016–2022
The project links housing outcomes to metrics and evaluation of housing design in the rapidly growing infill multi-residential sector.
Past Projects
2018–2021
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.
Past Projects
2018–2021
The project will produce evidence and tools to assist both the public and private sectors provide transport options to residents of Melbourne’s new suburbs as soon as they move in.
Past Projects
2017–2021
A climate change adaptation monitoring, evaluation and reporting tool, designed with and for Victorian local governments.
Past Projects
2021
The goal of this rapid assessment project is to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted wet markets in Vietnam, Kenya and the Philippines, specifically on biosecurity reforms and policies.
Past 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.
Past Projects
2018–2021
This project aims to provide an analysis of housing retrofit and its links with household energy costs.
Past Projects
2016–2021
This project investigates how major cities function and the effects of their land-use, housing and infrastructure systems on the humans that live in them.
Past Projects
2018–2021
This project established a network of integrated urban greening study sites to understand, quantify and qualify the multiple benefits of urban greening, including for biodiversity outcomes and for human health and wellbeing.
Past 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.
Past Projects
2019–2020
Working with the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union, we are exploring the possibilities of a Green Job Guarantee in the Australian context.
Past Projects
2019–2020
Evaluation of the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation (LMCF) Hotspots Initiative: place-based cross-sector collaborations.
Past Projects
2019–2020
The purpose of the project was to inform local governments on their legal roles and responsibilities under Victorian legislation for climate change adaptation.
Past Projects
2020
Scenario use and principles for embedding climate change into decision-making.
Past Projects
2017–2020
This co-designed project is a collaboration with the University of Western Australia and key emergency management organisations for the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre.
Past Projects
2017–2020
The Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy, Liveable and Equitable Communities investigates cost-effective built environment interventions to create healthy, liveable and equitable communities in Australia
Past Projects
2020
Climate Resilient Service Delivery aims to explore the use of scenarios planning as a tool for climate change adaptation decision making, with a particular emphasis on the local provision of community services to heat vulnerable populations.
Past Projects
2018–2020
This project aims to develop a Resilience Action Plan with and for the Tarnagulla community.
Past 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.
Past 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.
Past 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.
Past Projects
2018–2019
The Victorian Government Climate Change Act 2017 has identified seven sectors (or ‘systems’) that are impacted by or have an important influence on the State’s capacity to adapt to climate change.
