Transforming the outer suburbs through master planned estates: a governmental challenge. Master planned estates are becoming more common on the outer suburbs of capital cities and the developers of these estates are required to plan and manage a whole range of services. This project examines the role that private actors play in 'governing' suburban estates alongside traditional forms of government and the challenges that ensue.
The globalisation of the resources sector(s) in Australian cities. This project aims to understand how and why resources-related service firms cluster in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney. Maintaining Australia’s competitive position in global affairs depends on delivering innovative services in established national areas such as mining, energy and agriculture. This project will approach Australian cities’ economies from a ‘global’ perspective using social network analysis, to understand ho ....The globalisation of the resources sector(s) in Australian cities. This project aims to understand how and why resources-related service firms cluster in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney. Maintaining Australia’s competitive position in global affairs depends on delivering innovative services in established national areas such as mining, energy and agriculture. This project will approach Australian cities’ economies from a ‘global’ perspective using social network analysis, to understand how local firm clusters are internationally networked through branch office and affiliate corporate linkages. This project seeks to better direct urban and economic policy by positioning these sectors to deal with the challenges of the 21st century.Read moreRead less
Evolutionary Dynamics and the Transformation of Rural Australia. Understanding the ways in which Australia's rural heartland has been transformed is critical to constructing competitive regions. This project aims to pioneer the application and development of evolutionary economic geography and staples theory to an investigation of the transformation of south-east and south-western Australia, covering the long boom of the post-war period, through the restructuring 'crisis' of the 1980s and 1990s, ....Evolutionary Dynamics and the Transformation of Rural Australia. Understanding the ways in which Australia's rural heartland has been transformed is critical to constructing competitive regions. This project aims to pioneer the application and development of evolutionary economic geography and staples theory to an investigation of the transformation of south-east and south-western Australia, covering the long boom of the post-war period, through the restructuring 'crisis' of the 1980s and 1990s, to a multifunctional countryside. The explanatory power of the local modelling 'tools' that this project is expected to develop moves beyond the 'one size fits all' suite of policy prescriptions, with the specific potential to inform rural and regional policy and practice.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170100727
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Innovation in outer metropolitan areas. This project aims to study how labour connects and facilitates across large spatial divides. Under global economic restructuring, advanced nations are moving towards advanced manufacturing and services economy. With such activity based in cities, periphery or outer metropolitan areas are often excluded as sites of advanced industry investment. This exacerbates uneven development between peripheries and metropoles. Studying the two advanced economies of Aus ....Innovation in outer metropolitan areas. This project aims to study how labour connects and facilitates across large spatial divides. Under global economic restructuring, advanced nations are moving towards advanced manufacturing and services economy. With such activity based in cities, periphery or outer metropolitan areas are often excluded as sites of advanced industry investment. This exacerbates uneven development between peripheries and metropoles. Studying the two advanced economies of Australia and Japan, this project aims to understand how clusters and networks are perceived to be connected and how this network proximity increases innovation across time and space. This could raise productivity across an entire national innovation system.Read moreRead less
Precarious Dwelling: Encounters with housing crisis. This project aims to investigate the hidden impact and lived experience of housing insecurity. Using an innovative ethnography and policy analysis, the project will generate new knowledge about how people practice dwelling under conditions of dispossession, forced relocation or homelessness and the policy settings that create and sustain those conditions. The intended outcome is a holistic understanding of the lived experience and impacts of p ....Precarious Dwelling: Encounters with housing crisis. This project aims to investigate the hidden impact and lived experience of housing insecurity. Using an innovative ethnography and policy analysis, the project will generate new knowledge about how people practice dwelling under conditions of dispossession, forced relocation or homelessness and the policy settings that create and sustain those conditions. The intended outcome is a holistic understanding of the lived experience and impacts of precarity and the policy changes necessary to remedy its conditions. This should provide benefits to people experiencing precarity, support policy makers to understand the implications of different policy choices, and inform public understanding about contemporary housing and urban conditions. Read moreRead less
The politics of location: location-aware mobile media and urban governance. This project explores the implications of new location-aware mobile media technologies for the governance of cities. By explaining how different applications of location-awareness are caught up in wider conflicts over the making of urban spaces, the project will shed light on the emerging politics of location associated with these new technologies.
Net Zero Precincts: an interdisciplinary approach to decarbonising cities. This project aims to help cities and urban regions reach net zero emissions by taking the precinct as an optimal scale for urban transition. This project expects to co-create a new approach grounded in transition management and design anthropology. This will be tested in an action-oriented case study in the Monash Technology Precinct through three Living Lab experiments across energy, mobility and buildings. Expected outc ....Net Zero Precincts: an interdisciplinary approach to decarbonising cities. This project aims to help cities and urban regions reach net zero emissions by taking the precinct as an optimal scale for urban transition. This project expects to co-create a new approach grounded in transition management and design anthropology. This will be tested in an action-oriented case study in the Monash Technology Precinct through three Living Lab experiments across energy, mobility and buildings. Expected outcomes include a validated approach for net zero transitions that delivers to the real-life experiences of the precinct community of business, government, knowledge institutes and civil society. This should provide significant benefits to industry seeking to enhance community engagement for accelerating urban transitions.
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Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE210101443
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$352,893.00
Summary
Building Urban Resilience: Adaptation Economies in the Asia-Pacific. This project investigates the social, economic and environmental impacts of large scale sand and water extraction to build protective infrastructure in vulnerable cities. Through a qualitative study of climate change hotspots in Indonesia and Fiji, this project will generate new knowledge about the potentials and limits of urban resilience infrastructure to protect cities against climate change. Expected outcomes and benefits i ....Building Urban Resilience: Adaptation Economies in the Asia-Pacific. This project investigates the social, economic and environmental impacts of large scale sand and water extraction to build protective infrastructure in vulnerable cities. Through a qualitative study of climate change hotspots in Indonesia and Fiji, this project will generate new knowledge about the potentials and limits of urban resilience infrastructure to protect cities against climate change. Expected outcomes and benefits include an evidence base to re-evaluate adaptation strategies and identify more sustainable alternatives for building urban resilience in the context of rapid urbanisation and climate change adaptation.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE210100989
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$452,140.00
Summary
Locating the household in post-carbon regional economies. Industrial and resource regions that have felt the effects of automation and economic adjustment for decades now face an imperative to transition out of carbon intensive industries. This project aims to address household capacities to mediate and plan for this new challenge which is already reconfiguring working life in regional Australia. The project will use qualitative methods to understand how industrial change and working futures are ....Locating the household in post-carbon regional economies. Industrial and resource regions that have felt the effects of automation and economic adjustment for decades now face an imperative to transition out of carbon intensive industries. This project aims to address household capacities to mediate and plan for this new challenge which is already reconfiguring working life in regional Australia. The project will use qualitative methods to understand how industrial change and working futures are negotiated in spaces beyond the workplace, and how this might contribute to socially just transitions. Outcomes include an empirical evidence base that will produce novel insights into the types of support households will require to negotiate future work transitions.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100861
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$348,710.00
Summary
Ageing, home and housing security among single, asset-poor older women. This project aims to investigate the stability of single older women's senses of home, security and belonging as they negotiate asset and income insecurity. It examines: how national and housing-provider scale housing policy and governance frameworks shape the ways that older women experience and make decisions about the home; and how the home is affected by housing mobility. Using a housing pathways approach, the project ai ....Ageing, home and housing security among single, asset-poor older women. This project aims to investigate the stability of single older women's senses of home, security and belonging as they negotiate asset and income insecurity. It examines: how national and housing-provider scale housing policy and governance frameworks shape the ways that older women experience and make decisions about the home; and how the home is affected by housing mobility. Using a housing pathways approach, the project aims to develop knowledge of how housing markets and supply affect, and are shaped by, homemaking cultures and practices. The project aims to address a research gap about the ways in which asset-poor older Australians maintain stable housing pathways and senses of home, security and belonging as they age.Read moreRead less