Past Projects
2016–2018
An exploration of the early stages of the roll-out of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities project in Melbourne showed that it has generated considerable enthusiasm.
Past Projects
2016–2018
This study considers the national scale but then focuses on local approaches, reviewing plans and interviewing officials in 13 agencies, to assess how housing are meshed with economic development in strategy formation and monitoring.
Past Projects
2016–2018
A new generation of Bayesian species distribution models will provide improved predictions of species occurrence in the landscape.
Past Projects
2014–2018
This project broadens the research around housing and labour supply by addressing the work incentive implications of rising real house values and the fungibility of assets following mortgage innovation and deregulation.
Past Projects
2016–2018
This project will analyse the innovative role played by the Australian collecting sector in documenting, promoting and managing cultural diversity.
Past Projects
2016–2018
Examination of the impact of housing and labour market factors, demographics and service availability on rates of homelessness across Australia over the past decade.
Past Projects
2016–2018
Cities are central to achieving sustainability, yet urban redevelopments – often justified as sustainable – have displaced 15 million people. This research asks how we can find socially sustainable paths of urban development.
Past Projects
2018
This project explores the tensions, assumptions and challenges of private land conservation in the context of neoliberal environmental governance.
Past Projects
2017–2018
This project investigates the role that the Southern Grampians Glenelg Primary Care Partnership could play in supporting learning and networking for disaster preparedness.
Past Projects
2015–2017
This research critically investigates tensions and potentialities between risk-based assessments by local governance agencies and innovations by local groups and NGOs.
Past Projects
2015–2017
This project is researching the current surge in government, market and community investment in public Wi-Fi in Australia.
Past Projects
2015–2017
We are trying to understand how to efficiently measure the benefits of the urban forest in Australian cities.
Past Projects
2015–2017
How do Melbourne’s green spaces support insect biodiversity and promote ecosystem health?
Past Projects
2017
Bringing together leading national and international child equity researchers to identify potential ways to reduce early developmental inequities in Australian children.
Past Projects
2016–2017
User perspectives in purpose built low energy housing
Past Projects
2017
The Heatwaves, Homes & Health project investigated the impacts of electricity pricing and energy policy on heat vulnerable households.
Past Projects
2016–2017
Australian Policy Online is curating an open access collection of historic urban policy resources in collaboration with University partners.
Past Projects
2016–2017
The Balmoral Fire Connect bring together leaders from community by working in partnership with Balmoral Bush Nursing Centre and CFA to track the flow of information and the changed practice in the community.
Past Projects
2015–2017
This inquiry will develop coherent conceptual frameworks and empirical evidence to guide housing policy reforms that promote Australia’s economic development
Past Projects
2016–2017
Investigating energy and water under-use by households in order to afford utility bill payments which may have adverse effects on health and quality of life.
Past Projects
2016–2017
An analysis of the role and effectiveness of the building and planning system in delivering sustainable cities.
Past Projects
2014–2017
Reflecting the ethical turn in consumption, meat promoted and labeled as ethical, humane and/or sustainable has emerged as an apparent solution to increasing concerns.
Past Projects
2015–2017
This project aims to understand staff and students' broader lifestyles as part of a work-life ecology, occurring across a range of spaces, both physical and virtual.
Past Projects
2016–2017
RMIT researchers are trialling ‘smart’ home control devices in 46 households in Victoria and South Australia – to assess the potential of these devices to help manage home electricity consumption.
