Leadership team

Investigators

Affiliates

Emeritus and Adjunct appointments

Name Position Contact
Dr Takumi Abe Adjunct Research Fellow tabe@swinburne.edu.au
abe@tmig.or.jp
Dr Aggeliki Aggeli Adjunct Research Fellow aaggeli@swinburne.edu.au
Professor Terry Burke Emeritus Professor tburke@swinburne.edu.au
Dr Belinda Christie Adjunct Research Fellow bchristie@swinburne.edu.au
Associate Professor Val Colic-Peisker
 Adjunct Associate Professor
 vcolicpeisker@swinburne.edu.au
Dr Paddy Dempsey
 Adjunct Research Fellow
 pdempsey@swinburne.edu.au
Dr Monika Egerer International Adjunct Research Fellow megerer@swinburne.edu.au
monika.egerer@tum.de
Professor Niki Frantzeskaki Adjunct Professor nfrantzeskaki@swinburne.edu.au
Professor Sandra Gifford Adjunct Professor sgifford@swinburne.edu.au
Professor Kath Hulse Emeritus Professor khulse@swinburne.edu.au
Professor Brian McFarlane
 Adjunct Professor
 bmcfarlane@swinburne.edu.au
Dr Sean McNelis Adjunct Research Fellow smcnelis@swinburne.edu.au
Professor Peter Newton Emeritus Professor pnewton@swinburne.edu.au
Dr Matthew Parnell Adjunct Research Fellow mparnell@swinburne.edu.au
Dr Suzanne Mavoa Adjunct Research Fellow smavoa@swinburne.edu.au
Liss Ralston Adjunct Research Fellow
 lralston@swinburne.edu.au
Dr Fatemeh Shahani Adjunct Research Fellow fshahani@swinburne.edu.au
Dr Angelia Spinney Adjunct Professor aspinney@swinburne.edu.au
Dr Sorada Tapsuwan Adjunct Associate Professor stapsuwan@swinburne.edu.au
sorada.tapsuwan@csiro.au
Dr Russ Wise Adjunct Professor rwise@swinburne.edu.au
russell.wise@csiro.au

Postgraduate students

Current

Name
 Thesis/project title
Clare Adams Building institutions for resilient cities: Realising the mainstreaming of nature-based solutions in cities
Loretta Bellato
 Cultivating the roles of tourism in transitions towards regenerative cities and communities 
Stephen Cook
 Modelling the spatial impacts of transport disruption on the equity of accessibility in Australia’s cities
Elisa Casagrande Urban objects and precincts and their performance under urban heat scenarios
Zoe Goodall Accommodating share house tenants
George Hatvani
 Path dependency in Victorian homelessness and the potential for a system dynamics approach to provide greater understanding and policy directions
Rachel Maguire
 The right to resist: Theorising resident opposition to the Public Housing Renewal Program in Melbourne, Australia
Firas Mohamed Disentangling the association between built environment and cycling: A machine learning approach
Cameron Nash Exploring the social, technical and economic barriers to first/last mile improvement in car-oriented environments
Ethmadalage Perera Enabling community involvement to maximise co-benefits in achieving social-ecological resilience in urban waterways governance
Mahdieh Salari Exploring the interrelationships between air quality and urban form
Sungkavi Selvakumaran Socioeconomic inequalities in overweight/obesity: the role of built environment attributes
Farahnaz Sharifi 
 Just green cities? Equity, urban green space and subjective well-being
Olamide Shittu
 Transitioning to circular plastic economies in cities: Conceptual and policy implications of a practice perspective 
Ngoc Khanh Vu
 Smart urban transitions towards sustainability: An exploration of the hybrid form of smart city systems
Nestor Guity Zapata
 Homemaking processes in housing cooperatives:  A comparative analysis of Australia and Honduras 

Recently completed

Name
 Thesis/project title
Viktoria Adler
 From Colombia to Australia: Life stories of shifting identities among Colombian-born women living in Melbourne, Australia
Aggeliki Aggeli The Australian home renovation process: Media and low carbon design choices
Mandy Brent-Houghton The housing disadvantage of women alone in older age: An enduring inequality?
Deborah Batterham
 Clarifying the relationship between homelessness and private rental markets in Australia: Capabilities, risk, mobility and geography
Sarah Fiess Circles of women: Sustainable consumption and digital media
Geraldine McLoughlin Sleep walking to catastrophe? Land use and transport planning decisions reviewed against climate change priorities: Melbourne as a case study
Melissa Pineda Pinto Designing ecologically just cities by effectively enhancing green infrastructure’s multifunctionality
Paul Stolz
 Examination of ‘overcrowding’ in Australian households, its impact on young people in pathways to homelessness and implications for intervention effectiveness

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