The Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) engages in research focused on the complex political, economic, social, cultural and environmental processes and relations that are transforming cities and regions.
RHD projects
Current Projects
- Constructing
the global city (Elizabeth Adamczyk)
- Climate change impacts on the livelihood of
women in the disaster vulnerable areas of Bangladesh: responses to adaptation
strategies for a sustainable future (Muhammad Asaduzzaman)
- An emotional geography of HIV/AIDS
development work in PNG (Jack Aisbett)
- Performing'nature' in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park through management (Sarah Bell)
- Fleeing persecution- immigration experiences
of the Hazara (Elise Briggs)
- Critical and social movement relevant
research with autonomy-oriented social movements (Lara Daley)
- Economicjustice and ethics in the food economy: food sovereignty economies in Spain (Rhyall
Gordon)
- Re-making:the ontological politics of environmental management (Ryan Jones)
- Itinerant
understandings, travelling policy: chronic homelessness in and beyond
Australian cities (Thomas Baker)
- Making peace With
the Orange Roughy: truth and reconciliation for a fish (Matthew Coxhill)
- Refugees
in Newcastle - Who cares? (Faith Curtis)
- Repairing,
renovating and renewing the urban assemblage (Rupert Doney)
- Volunteer
tourism and the third space/borderlands (Phoebe Everingham)
- A mall,
a mosque and Martin Place: publics, publicness and space (Adam Tyndall)
- More-than-useful
geographies of gardens in public housing: (e)valu(at)ing everyday
practices and stories of gardens, home and community (Nicola Vaughan)
- Do
the ties really bind? Understanding social networks of Sudanese refugees
in regional Australia (Lisa Webber)
- An
interdisciplinary investigation into the experience and impacts of living
with drought for three generations of Australian women (Jane Rich)
Recently Completed RHD Projects
- Prosaics of
interagency human service delivery: the potentialities of peopled,
practised and caring states (Louise Askew)
- Development
discourse and the postcolonial challenge: the case of Fiji's aid industry
(Paul Hodge)
- Making the
Southern Ocean: exploring political and post-humanist geographies of
marine space (Jill Sweeney)
- Cities of
possibility: performing care-full urban justice (Miriam Williams)