Articulating value in housing cooperatives. Australia has a persistent shortage of affordable, quality housing. Housing cooperatives are member-based organisations providing rental and owner-occupied homes to members. They are associated with benefits for member-residents, including improved housing, improved senses of belonging and community, and employment and education outcomes. However, evidence for those benefits has gaps, so this study aims to develop a framework for assessing housing coop ....Articulating value in housing cooperatives. Australia has a persistent shortage of affordable, quality housing. Housing cooperatives are member-based organisations providing rental and owner-occupied homes to members. They are associated with benefits for member-residents, including improved housing, improved senses of belonging and community, and employment and education outcomes. However, evidence for those benefits has gaps, so this study aims to develop a framework for assessing housing cooperative benefits and to develop a typology to identify the factors shaping those benefits. The project outcome will be an evidence base of what works in cooperative housing, which can benefit the country by providing a rationale for growth of and policy support for socially beneficial housing.Read moreRead less
Closing the housing gap: a spotlight on intergenerational inequalities. This project aims to use never-before analysed combinations of datasets and new data on Australian housing conditions to model the consequences of unequal access to housing and housing wealth among Australians, and to evaluate both individual and national benefits of housing interventions across generations. The consequences of unequal access to housing are different for current and future generational cohorts. This project ....Closing the housing gap: a spotlight on intergenerational inequalities. This project aims to use never-before analysed combinations of datasets and new data on Australian housing conditions to model the consequences of unequal access to housing and housing wealth among Australians, and to evaluate both individual and national benefits of housing interventions across generations. The consequences of unequal access to housing are different for current and future generational cohorts. This project expects to reveal the drivers and health consequences of the intergenerational housing gap. Research-based insights on the intergenerational housing crisis will benefit almost all Australians affected by the unprecedented costs of ownership and renting.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE210101175
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$408,643.00
Summary
The asset state: Comparing new models for financing public investment. This project aims to investigate policy models that account for public spending as an asset rather than a cost. The project expects to build knowledge about how changes in the way governments budget for and deliver funding create new options for public investment. The project develops a comparative study of the relationship between accounting reforms and financing models for higher education, social housing and renewable ener ....The asset state: Comparing new models for financing public investment. This project aims to investigate policy models that account for public spending as an asset rather than a cost. The project expects to build knowledge about how changes in the way governments budget for and deliver funding create new options for public investment. The project develops a comparative study of the relationship between accounting reforms and financing models for higher education, social housing and renewable energy in Australia and the UK. Expected outcomes include conceptualising new spaces of fiscal power in the 'asset state' and developing tools for policy makers to guide budgetary choices. This should provide significant benefits by identifying equitable and sustainable ways to pay for critical services and infrastructure.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
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
Living with Urban Heat: Becoming Climate-Ready in Social Housing . This project aims to address liveability in rapidly warming cities by focusing on the role that social practice plays in complementing technical and infrastructural cooling solutions. This project expects to generate new knowledge about equitable heat adaptive practices. It does so by working with culturally diverse social housing residents using an innovative blend of participatory action research and transition design. Expected ....Living with Urban Heat: Becoming Climate-Ready in Social Housing . This project aims to address liveability in rapidly warming cities by focusing on the role that social practice plays in complementing technical and infrastructural cooling solutions. This project expects to generate new knowledge about equitable heat adaptive practices. It does so by working with culturally diverse social housing residents using an innovative blend of participatory action research and transition design. Expected outcomes of this project include practical, low-cost cooling strategies that can be implemented now, along with increased social input into planning for the hotter urban future. This should provide significant benefits, such as enhanced civic capacity to generate society-wide climate readiness. Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE200100259
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$417,755.00
Summary
Hacking Housing: Technologies, processes and practices of housing futures. Australian’s experiences of housing are changing due to rising housing unaffordability, uncertain employment prospects & digital disruptions to housing markets. A diverse housing system is resulting, as housing providers & consumers innovate with novel housing models & practices to find solutions to housing problems. Contemporary housing thinking cannot grasp this reshaping of housing. The project aims to advance a new co ....Hacking Housing: Technologies, processes and practices of housing futures. Australian’s experiences of housing are changing due to rising housing unaffordability, uncertain employment prospects & digital disruptions to housing markets. A diverse housing system is resulting, as housing providers & consumers innovate with novel housing models & practices to find solutions to housing problems. Contemporary housing thinking cannot grasp this reshaping of housing. The project aims to advance a new conceptual framework & innovative methodologies to understand the new housing landscape as digital, rented & shared. It expects to generate new empirical knowledge using digital methodologies & grow international research networks. This should provide benefits such as evidence to inform policy & a digital methods toolkit.Read moreRead less
Changing administrative territory. This project analyses how China changes subnational administrative territory – establishing and enlarging cities and eliminating others – to develop regional economies, establish power bases, and govern society. Using systematic data on changes to administrative divisions, this project will analyse how China strategically changes subnational territory to achieve political, economic and social goals – aligning the territorial space of the state with economy and ....Changing administrative territory. This project analyses how China changes subnational administrative territory – establishing and enlarging cities and eliminating others – to develop regional economies, establish power bases, and govern society. Using systematic data on changes to administrative divisions, this project will analyse how China strategically changes subnational territory to achieve political, economic and social goals – aligning the territorial space of the state with economy and citizenship. Results from research in four cities are expected to provide strategic information for establishing city-to-city partnerships as well as insights for economic development and national security.Read moreRead less