Graduates
PhD Graduates
Dr Alanna Kamp
Sojourning Wives: Feminising Chinese Migrant Experience in White Australia
Dr Alex Baumann
Making Our Neighbourhood Work: Exploring a New Perspective in Public Housing
Dr Brigid Trennery
Building Inclusive Organisations: Moving From Evidence To Practice
Dr Gordon Bijen
Housing Estate of Mind: Exploring the Impact of Public Housing Renewal upon Community Life
Dr Jane Bringolf
Barriers to Universal Design in Housing: Why they exist and how they might be resolved
Jane's research was based around the topic of universal design, which is a process of creating products and environments that suit people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. Jane investigated the drivers and barriers to universal design, particularly in housing, and examined the economic costs to the community of not having universally designed products and environments.
Dr Kamel Taoum
Consuming Master-Planned Estates in Australia: The Political Social and Economic Factors that Underpin the Rise in Popularity of Master Planned Estates in Australia
Dr Martin Nichols
The aim of this research is to investigate the infrastructure costs associated with compact versus dispersed city forms. In effect, the research will seek to determine which city forms can provide infrastructure at the least cost.
Dr Md Masud Parves Rana
Supplying Water to the Urban Poor: Governance Approaches and Challenges of Situated Informalities
Dr Michael Grosvenor
Understanding Sustainability in an Urban Context
Dr Samantha Sharpe
Regional Dimensions of Innovative Activity in Outer Western Sydney
The aim of this research was to understand the socio-economic development of a metropolitan region in Sydney through an analysis of regional innovative activity. Click here to read the abstract.
Dr Sharon Fingland
Social Inclusion: Innovation in the Renewal of Older Housing Estates in Western Sydney
Dr Tamara Weyman
Spatial Information Sharing for Better Regional Decision-Making
The aim of this research was to determine whether a technological spatial innovation, such as online spatial portal, would provide an effective mechanism to support better policy dialogue between the technical capacity and decision-making spheres within and between local government, enabling improved policy development and application.
Dr Tayanah O'Donnell
The aim of this research is to examine policy responses and adaptation in the context of sea level rise and other global climate change induced coastal activities and occurrences. The core of the thesis is focussed on policy and adaptation responses for a small number of NSW coastal councils.