Our people
Find out more about the Centre for Urban Transitions team and postgraduate students whose research produces systemic, integrative and actionable knowledge on cities and how they transform.
Leadership team
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Professor Niki Frantzeskaki
Director and Program Leader, Centre for Urban Transitions -
Associate Professor Magnus Moglia
Program Leader, Centre for Urban Transitions -
Associate Professor Andi Nygaard
Program Leader, Centre for Urban Transitions -
Professor Wendy Stone
Director, AHURI’s Swinburne Research Centre; Program Leader, Centre for Urban Transitions -
Investigators
Affiliates
| Name |
Position | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Takumi Abe | Research Fellow | tabe@swinburne.edu.au |
| Emeritus Professor Brian Costar | Emeritus Professor | +61 3 9214 5899 bcostar@swinburne.edu.au |
| Associate Professor Christine Critchley |
Associate Professor | +61 3 9214 5480 ccritchley@swinburne.edu.au |
| Associate Professor Hussein Dia |
Associate Professor (Transport Engineering) |
+61 3 9214 5280 hdia@swinburne.edu.au |
| Dr Jonathan Kingsley | Lecturer | jkingsley@swinburne.edu.au |
| Professor Denny Meyer |
Professor |
+61 3 9214 4824 dmeyer@swinburne.edu.au |
| Dr Scott Rayburg |
Senior Lecturer |
+61 3 9214 4944 srayburg@swinburne.edu.au |
Adjunct fellows
| Name |
Position | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Associate Professor Val Colic-Peisker |
Adjunct Associate Professor |
vcolicpeisker@swinburne.edu.au |
| Dr Paddy Dempsey |
Adjunct Research Fellow |
pdempsey@swinburne.edu.au |
| Peter Mares |
Adjunct Fellow |
pwmares@swinburne.edu.au |
| Professor Brian McFarlane |
Adjunct Professor |
bmcfarlane@swinburne.edu.au |
| Philip Strobl |
Visiting Fellow |
pstrobl@swinburne.edu.au |
| Professor Terry Burke | Professor | tburke@swinburne.edu.au |
| Professor Kath Hulse | Adjunct Professor | khulse@swinburne.edu.au |
| Dr Angelia Spinney | Adjunct Professor | aspinney@swinburne.edu.au |
| Liss Ralston | Adjunct Research Fellow | lralston@swinburne.edu.au |
Postgraduate students
Current
| Name |
Thesis/project title |
|---|---|
| Aggeliki Aggeli |
The Australian home renovation process: Media and low carbon design choices |
| Loretta Bellato |
Cultivating the roles of tourism in transitions towards regenerative cities and communities |
| Mandy Brent-Houghton |
The housing disadvantage of women alone in older age: An enduring inequality? |
| Stephen Cook |
Modelling the spatial impacts of transport disruption on the equity of accessibility in Australia’s cities |
| Sarah Fiess |
Circles of women: Sustainable consumption and digital media |
| Emily Graham |
The human experience of receiving international aid: An ethnographic case study in Sri Lanka |
| Jessica Grahame |
Redefining 'rape culture': Can the popular term 'rape culture' be extended and elaborated to usefully illuminate the pervasive cultural underpinnings behind rape and sexual violence towards women? |
| George Hatvani |
Path dependency in Victorian homelessness and the potential for a system dynamics approach to provide greater understanding and policy directions |
| Josee Huennekes |
Precariousness and perseverance among Rohingya families living in Malaysia |
| Juliana Lobo De Queiroz |
Refugee women, resettlement and entrepreneurship: An applied anthropology of refugee women entrepreneurship in Australia and Brazil |
| Rachel Maguire |
Understanding public housing provision in Melbourne: A comparative perspective |
| Jessica Maher |
Constructing a sense of home through green spaces using participatory methods to examine the lived experiences of migrants and their relationships with the natural environment in Shepparton, Victoria |
| Geradine McLoughlin |
Sleep walking to catastrophe? Land use and transport planning decisions reviewed against climate change priorities: Melbourne as a case study |
| Grant Mitchell |
Forging new ground: Creative civil society engagement of government to achieve rights-based policy change on immigration detention |
| Melissa Pineda Pinto |
Designing ecologically just cities by effectively enhancing green infrastructure’s multifunctionality |
| Philip Soos |
An analysis of control fraud in the Australian housing and mortgage markets |
| Farahnaz Sharifi |
Investigating urban factors affecting suburbs' supremacy, applications for balanced urban development in Melbourne metropolitan |
| Olamide Shittu |
Transitioning from plastic consumption in low-income suburban households: A comparative social practice analysis of Australia and Nigeria |
| Katharine Thornton |
Household food waste: Composting, recycling and other practices |
| Ngoc Khanh Vu |
Smart urban transitions towards sustainability: An exploration of the hybrid form of smart city systems |
| Jennifer Witheridge |
Contested space: Future challenges and pathways for open space provision in Australian suburbs |
| Nestor Guity Zapata |
Collaborative housing (formal and informal) as a contributor to the development and lived experience of just cities, in a comparative international context between Honduras and Australia |
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 |
| Deborah Batterham |
Clarifying the relationship between homelessness and private rental markets in Australia: Capabilities, risk, mobility and geography |
| Ailsa McPherson |
Housing adaptations to social, economic and demographic change: The renter-owner household in Australia |
| 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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Contact the Centre for Urban Transitions
There are many ways to engage with us. If your organisation is dealing with a complex problem, get in touch to discuss how we can work together to provide solutions. Call us on +61 3 9214 5286 or email cutransitions@swinburne.edu.au.