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Emeritus Professor Bruce Herbert Judd

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban and regional planning, Architectural design, Housing policy, Community planning, Population trends and policies
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Housing

Urban Planning

Residential Construction Planning

Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design

Keywords:

housing

human behaviour

city and urban planning

urban renewal

ageing population

ageing in place

Following eight years in private architectural practice, Bruce joined UNSW in 1981 where his roles have included Head of the former Graduate School of the Built Environment, Director of P

Professor Bill Randolph

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban and regional planning, Urban analysis and development, Urban and regional economics, Urban geography, Housing markets, development and management, Housing policy, Urban and Regional Planning, Human Geography
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Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society

Keywords:

city and urban planning

urban renewal

suburban renewal

affordable housing

housing affordability

housing markets

Bill Randolph joined the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales in August 2004 as Professor and Director of the City Futures Research Centre.

Dr Fatemeh Aminpour

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Architecture, Urban and regional planning
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Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design

Children's/Youth Services and Childcare

Health Inequalities

Moral and Social Development (incl. Affect)

Keywords:

urban and built environment research

interdisciplinary research

architecture

inclusive design

children and young people

early childhood development

school environment

agency behaviour

qualitative analysis

qualitative methodology

qualitative methods

Fatemeh is currently an Associate Lecturer (Ed-focused) in the program of Landscape Architecture and a Research Associate in the City Futures Research Centre.

Professor Hazel Easthope

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban and regional planning, Human geography, Sociology
SEO tags:

Urban Planning

Keywords:

apartments

home

private rental housing

housing

strata title

Dr Hazel Easthope Deputy Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Australia PhD (University of Tasmania), BA(Hons) (University of Sydney)

Dr Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Landscape architecture, History and theory of the built environment (excl. architecture), Sustainable design, Global Indigenous studies environmental knowledges and management, Urban and regional planning
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Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design

Materials performance and processes

Urban Planning

Keywords:

landscape architecture

australian landscape architecture

socio-ecological landscapes

sustainable land management

Dr Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard is a R

Dr Cathy Smith

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Architecture, Urban and regional planning, Urban design, Community planning

Dr Edgar Yue Lap Liu

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Housing policy, Community planning, Urban and regional planning, Urban planning and health, Family and household studies, Social program evaluation
SEO tags:

Urban Planning

Ageing and Older People

Housing

Edgar is a Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture's City Futures Research Centre (0.4FTE).

Dr Naama Blatman-Thomas

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban geography, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-based research, Social geography, Urban and regional planning
Keywords:

colonial place making and identities

urban geography

city and urban planning

housing

prisons

comparative research

Associate Professor Kate Bishop

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban and regional planning, Urban sociology and community studies, Environmental sociology, Urban design
Keywords:

Environment and behaviour

Children, youth and environments

accessibility

smart cities

Environmental Psychology

Dr Kate Bishop is an Associate Professor in the School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney.

Dr Mike Harris

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Landscape architecture, Urban design, Urban and regional planning

Mike is a researcher, teacher and pract

Dr Raffaele Pernice

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban design, Urban and regional planning, Architectural history, theory and criticism, Architectural design, Architectural heritage and conservation, History and theory of the built environment (excl. architecture), Architecture
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Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design

Urban Planning

Construction Design not elsewhere classified

Keywords:

architectural design

architectural history

city and urban planning

urban design

architecture and society

architecture

urban history

I am a researcher, educator and professional licensed architect, and my research interest lies at the intersection of the disciplines of architecture, city plan

Mrs Marzie Naserikia

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Climatology, Urban and regional planning, Atmospheric sciences
Keywords:

urban heat island

satellite remote sensing

gis

urban planning

land use and land cover change

machine learning

Dr. Marzie Naserikia joined the PhD program at the Climate Change Research Centre at UNSW in 2020.

Associate Professor Amelia Thorpe

Faculty: Law & Justice
Fields of Research (FoR): Law and society and socio-legal research, Urban and regional planning, Urban geography, Environmental law, Transport geography
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Dr John Carr

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban geography, Law and society and socio-legal research, Human geography, Urban and regional planning, Land use and environmental planning, Property law (excl. intellectual property law), Political economy and social change, Social change, Critical theory, History and theory of the built environment (excl. architecture)
SEO tags:

Urban Planning

Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studies

Keywords:

urban geography

environmental law - environmental studies

legal geography

urban politics

city and urban planning

poststructural/postmodern/critical theory

globalization

environmental sustainability

data privacy

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Dr Charlie Gillon

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Human geography, Urban and regional planning
Keywords:

housing

home

Dr Charlie Gillon Research Associate, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney PhD (University of Wollongong), BSci (Adv Hons Class I) (University of Wollongong)

Professor Susan Margaret Thompson

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban and regional planning, Public health, Community planning

My academic career, researching and teaching in the built environment disciplines, is grounded in

Dr Laura Marion Crommelin

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban and regional planning, Urban geography

Laura Crommelin is a Senior Lecturer in the City Planning Program at UNSW Sydney, teaching planning law and governance and working on research related to urban and housing policy.

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban and regional planning, Geoscience data visualisation, Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling, Spatial data and applications, Spatial statistics, Cartography and digital mapping, Human geography, Information visualisation

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj is a Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre.

Associate Professor Meead Saberi Kalaee

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Transport engineering, Road transportation and freight services, Urban and regional planning, Modelling and simulation, Urban informatics, Transport planning
Keywords:

transportation

traffic modeling

dynamic traffic assignment

pedestrian behaviour

transportation networks

data visualisation

data analytics

high-dimensional spatial data

Dr. Saberi is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.

Professor Robert Freestone

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban and regional planning, History of the Built Environment
SEO tags:

Urban Planning

Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology

I have diverse research interests in urban studies and planning education, being highly regard

Dr Lee Stephen Roberts

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Architectural design, Urban design, Urban planning and health, Public transport, Urban and regional planning, Urban policy
SEO tags:

Environmentally Sustainable Transport

Keywords:

I am an urban planner and designer with more than ten years of experience in all phases of planning, design and construction, including urban planning fram

Professor Hal Pawson

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban and regional planning
SEO tags:

Government and Politics

Hal Pawson is Professor Housing Research and Policy

Associate Professor Catherine Breese Evans

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Landscape architecture, Urban and regional planning

Catherine Evans is currently Deputy Head of School (Learning and Teaching) in the UNSW School of Built Envi