Urban and Regional Research Program

Academic Conferences and Research Events:

Jenna Condie

Visited QUT (Brisbane) and presented on geolocation dating apps and mobile dating practices in Sydney

Visited the Office of the eSafety Commissioner and presented on digital research methods for dating app safety research.

Invited presentation for the NSW rangers conference on social media use: possibilities and challenges for local government services

Invited discussion on Waterloo public housing redevelopment for Beta Blockers, an interactive live art exhibition at Verge Gallery, Sydney focused on resistance.

Louise Crabtree

Crabtree L, Perry N, Power E, and Grimstad S (2019) Articulating value in housing cooperatives, International Co-operative Alliance Asia-Pacific Research Conference, Newcastle, 14 Dec.

“Articulating value in Co-operative Housing”, University of Sydney Co-operatives Research Group seminar series, 16 Aug 2019.

Crabtree L, Mellick Lopes A, Armstrong H, Healy S, Gibson K, Power E and Tonkinwise C (2019) ‘Cooling the Commons’, NSW Geography Teachers’ Association Annual Conference – Innovation and Sustainability panel, Sydney, 2 Apr.

Rae Dufty-Jones

Bergan, T. and Dufty-Jones, R. (2019), ‘Coliving Housing: Connecting Capital and Community’, Planning Institute of Australia NSW State Conference, Parramatta, 19 September.

Dufty-Jones, R. (2019), ‘Post-doctoral career pathways’, - Invited Panellist - Institute of Australian Geographers Postgraduate Pre-Conference, Hobart, 8 July.

Bergan, T., Dufty-Jones, R., Kerr, S-M., Mee, K., and Power, E. (2019), ‘Housing and home: assembling geographies of emergence, divergence, and convergence’ Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Hobart, 9-12 July. (3 sessions of 12 papers)

Dufty-Jones, R. (2019), ‘Assembling housing using digital data’ Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Hobart, 9-12 July.

Kevin Dunn

Association of American Geographers (AAG) Conference, Washington DC, USA, April 2019.

The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference, Sydney, Australia, November 2019.

Australian Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (AAIMS) Conference AAIMS 2019, Female Orphan School WSU, October 2019

Belonging and Public Space: Racism and the Right to the City, Othering & Belonging Conference, Oakland, USA, April 9, 2019.

Religion and Race/ialisation in Australia, Western Sydney University, Liverpool, 26 April 2019.

Andrew Gorman-Murray

D. Bissell, L. Straughan & A. Gorman-Murray, ‘Losing touch’, presented at the Institute of British Geographers’ Annual Conference (Royal Geographical Society, London, September 2019).

L. Straughan, D. Bissell & A. Gorman-Murray, ‘Floating in absence: experiences of waiting in proximity to mobile working practice’, presented at The Association of American Geographers Annual Conference (Washington, DC, 3-7 April 2019).

C. Nash, H. Maguire & A. Gorman-Murray, ‘LGBTQ communities, public space and urban movement: towards mobility justice in the contemporary city’, presented at The Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference (Vancouver, 3-6 June 2019)

Stephen Healy

“Cultivating the Habits of Coolth” City Habits Workshop, Western Sydney University, November 2019.

“Redrawing Economies: Other Worlds for Uncertain Futures” Center For Community Resilience Inaugural Lecture, University of West Virginia, Morgantown WV, October 2019.

“Engaging the Present: Envisioning the Future” Plenary panel 2, Engaging Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA October 2019.

“EPA: Economy and Space Forum: A Conversation with Fred Block on the ‘Illusion of Capitalism.” Panelist. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, April 2019.

“Diverse Economies, Design –Futures and Unmaking Unsustainability.” Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, Oregon, USA March 2019.

“Diverse Economies, Subjectivity and Conjuncture.” Researching Postcapitalist Possibilities One-Day Conference II, Parramatta, NSW, Australia, January 2019.

Alana Kamp

Kamp, A. (2019) A Place of One’s Own: An investigation of historical family photography as a means to challenge migrant liminality, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.

Cameron McAuliffe

Convened Parramatta Field Tour for participants at TASA, Nov 2019

Nicky Morrison

Prioritising Healthy Placemaking post-COVID19 - Urban Living Futures and Society Event, 19th October 2020.

Western Sydney’s urban transformation: Examining the governance arrangements and strategic alliances driving forward the growth vision’ State of Australian Cities (SOAC), December 2019, University of Western Australia, Perth

Phillip O'Neill

The peculiar case of toll roads in eastern Australia, Institute of Australian Geographers, July 2019, Hobart

Felicity Picken

Invited Speaker, Sydney Environment Institute, Oceanic Thinking Workshop, University of Sydney, 30th October, 2019.

The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference 2019

Awais Piracha

Paper presentation at the PIA NSW 2019 Conference – Parramatta

Co-chair for Smart Futures and Sustainability Track at the ISOCARP World Planning Congress- Jakarta

Emma Power

Organised a session at Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Hobart 2019; presented paper and was on a panel discussion.

Power, ER and Mee, KJ (2019) Housing: an infrastructure of care, Health in Places, Spaces and Interspecies Relationships: towards more-than-human health promotion, University of Wollongong, Nov 2019.

Power, E.R. (2019) Assembling the capacity to care: caring-with precarious housing, GEOPlan Seminar, Macquarie University, June 2019.

Power, E.R. (2019) Housing: an infrastructure of Care, Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research, Heriot-Watt University, March 2019.

Ryan Van Den Nouwelant 

van den Nouwelant, R. & Troy, L. (2019) “(In)formality in Sydney’s housing grey space”, Housing theory symposium (Sydney, May 2019)

van den Nouwelant, R. & Troy, L. (2019) “Reconciling a uniform national housing policy with diverse housing markets”, European Network of Housing Researchers (Athens, July 2019)

Lawson, J., Troy, L. & van den Nouwelant, R. (2019) "Social housing as infrastructure and the role of mission driven financing”, European Network of Housing Researchers (Athens, July 2019)

Troy, L. & van den Nouwelant, R. (2019) “Suburbs of change: Secondary dwellings and Sydney’s hidden housing revolution”, State of Australian Cities (Perth, December 2019)

Martin, C., Pawson, H & van den Nouwelant, R. (2019) “Assembling ‘Build to Rent’ in Australia: a case study in the financialisation of housing”, State of Australian Cities (Perth, December 2019)