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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Associate Professor Christian (Andi) Nygaard
Director and Program Leader, Centre for Urban Transitions; Director, AHURI’s Swinburne Research Centre -
Associate Professor Magnus Moglia
Program Leader, Centre for Urban Transitions -
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Investigators
Name |
Position | Contact |
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Dr Deborah Batterham | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | dbatterham@swinburne.edu.au deb.batterham@launchhousing.org.au |
Dr Manoj Chandrabose |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
mchandrabose@swinburne.edu.au |
Dr Stephen Glackin |
Senior Research Fellow | +61 3 9214 8218 sglackin@swinburne.edu.au |
Zoe Goodall | Research Associate | zgoodall@swinburne.edu.au |
Dr Nyssa Hadgraft | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | +61 3 9214 4446 nhadgraft@swinburne.edu.au |
Professor Neville Owen | Distinguished Professor in Health Sciences | nowen@swinburne.edu.au |
Margaret Reynolds |
Senior Research Fellow | +61 3 9214 5471 mareynolds@swinburne.edu.au |
Dr Olamide Shittu | Circular Economy Research Fellow | oshittu@swinburne.edu.au |
Associate Professor Sorada Tapsuwan | stapsuwan@swinburne.edu.au | |
Dr Piret Veeroja | Research Fellow | pveeroja@swinburne.edu.au |
Affiliates
Name |
Position | Contact |
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Dr Takumi Abe | Research Fellow | tabe@swinburne.edu.au |
Dr Aisling Bailey | Lecturer | aabailey@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 |
Associate Professor Hadi Ghaderi | Associate Professor | hghaderi@swinburne.edu.au |
Dr Jonathan Kingsley | Lecturer | jkingsley@swinburne.edu.au |
Dr Joel McGregor | Lecturer | joelmcgregor@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 |
Emeritus and Adjunct appointments
Postgraduate students
Current
Name |
Thesis/project title |
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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 |
Mavis Boamah | Access and experiences of housing and education among young African refugees resettled in Australia |
Stephen Cook |
Modelling the spatial impacts of transport disruption on the equity of accessibility in Australia’s cities |
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 |
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 |
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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 |
Elisa Casagrande |
Urban objects and precincts and their performance under urban heat scenarios |
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 |
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 |
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.