Research Higher Degree Students and Projects

Current Projects

The Centre for Urban and Regional Studies includes a lively community of research students currently working on the following projects:

The Experiences of Urban Public Spaces in the Contemporary Inner City (Elizabeth Adamczyk)
An emotional geography of HIV/AIDS development work in PNG (Jack Aisbett)
Making policy mobile: global engagements in Australian urban policy-making (Thomas Baker)
Human and Nonhuman Encounters in Urban Space (Sarah Bell)
Urban revitalisation and the right to the city (Lara Daley)
Food Sovereignty: Lineaments of Post-Capitalist Economies (Rhyall Gordon)
Legacy in applied theatre: our co-workers, our audience, or ours to strip-mine and leave deflowered (Brian Joyce)
Community Attachment and Identity: an Integrated Picture of Coastal Development on Resident's Wellbeing (Joanne Piggot)
Publicness, urban citizenship and contemporary urban space (Adam Tyndall)
Practicing participation: gardening as tenant participation in public housing (Nicola Vaughan)
Do the ties really bind? Understanding social networks of Sudanese refugees in regional Australia (Lisa Webber)
Revealing everyday practices of care and justice in inner-city community organisations (Miriam Williams)

Prosaics of interagency human service delivery: the potentialities of peopled, practised and caring states (Louise Askew)
The regulation of labour rights in global supply networks (Tim Connor)
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)