Organising committee
The National Organising Committee for this conference includes the
following members:
Chair: Prof Steve Hamnett
Professor of Urban & Regional Planning,
School of Natural & Built Environments,
University of South Australia
T: +61 8 8302 2297 E:
steve.hamnett@unisa.edu.au
Professor Steve Hamnett (Conference Chair) is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of South Australia and a researcher with the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies and the Transport Systems Centre. Steve is also a Life Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and a Commissioner of the South Australian Environment, Resources and Development Court.
Associate Professor Clive Forster
School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management,
Flinders University
T: +61 8 8201 2308 E: clive.forster@flinders.edu.au
Clive Forster is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography,
Population and Environmental Management at Flinders University. He has been
researching, teaching and writing about urban policy and the geography of
Australian cities since 1970, and has acted as a consultant to Local, State
and Commonwealth Governments, particularly on spatial aspects of
disadvantage and social justice. He is author of Australian Cities:
Continuity and Change, 3rd edn., Oxford University Press, 2004, joint author
of A Social Health Atlas of South Australia, South Australian Health
Commission, 1996, and is a member of the International Editorial Board of
the journal Urban Policy and Research.
Dr Susan Oakley
School of Social Studies,
University of Adelaide
T: +61 8 8303 3352 E:
susan.oakley@adelaide.edu.au
Dr Susan Oakley is trained as an urban sociologist. Her current research examines the role and nature of urban governance in the provision of waterfront regeneration and the place identity/place-marketing of large-scale urban waterfront redevelopments through the re-conceptualisation of place, housing, work and community. In addition, Susan is involved in 3 collaborative ARC linkage grants, which have a strong focus on work – ‘The Low Paid Services Project’, ‘Young Workers and Workplace Citizenship’ and the ‘Work, Housing Services and Community Project’. Susan’s teaching areas include social research, young workers and workplace citizenship, the gendered nature of youth homelessness and the gendered nature of present and future work.
Dr Matthew Rofe
School of Natural & Built Environments,
University of South Australia
T: +61 8 8302 22358 E: Matthew.Rofe@unisa.edu.au
Dr Matthew Rofe is a lecturer in urban planning at the University of South Australia and an Urban Geographer specialising in inner city revitalisation and the emergence of the gentrifying class as an emergent elite global community. Matthew has published on globalisation, gentrification, city marketing, gated communities, sexuality/masculinity and identity performance amongst sub-cultural groups and rural festivals as place making strategies. Matthew's current domestic research involves investigating the emergence of Adelaide as an international educating city and exploring media constructions of the Snowtown murders and the stigmatisation of place. Internationally, Matthew is pursuing his work on gentrification, globalisation and global city formation/discourse in conjunction with scholars at the University of British Columbia and the University of Loughborough.
Dr Jon Kellett
School of Natural & Built Environments,
University of South Australia
T: +61 8 8302 1701 E: Jon.Kellett@unisa.edu.au
Dr Jon Kellett is an urban and regional planner with extensive experience in research and teaching both in the UK and Australia. He has particular interests in energy and the environment and techniques of environmental management. Since 2005 he has been Program Director of the undergraduate Urban and Regional Planning program at the University of South Australia. He has extensive experience in developing computer based distance learning materials and is currently Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkage funded project looking at the transition of communities to carbon neutrality.
Dr
Paul Maginn
University of Western Australia
Dr Paul Maginn is senior lecturer and program director for the urban and
regional planning programs at the University of Western Australia. Paul’s
research expertise and interests lie in the fields of urban regeneration,
community participation, and race and ethnic issues in urban and housing
policy. He is currently working as lead editor on two edited book
collections – Qualitative Urban Analysis: An International Perspective and
Qualitative Housing Analysis: An International Perspective (both for
Elsevier) – with Professor Matthew Tonts (UWA) and Associate Professor Susan
Thompson (UNSW).
Dr
Jean Duruz
School of Communication, University of South Australia
T: +61 8 8302 4492 E:
jean.duruz@unisa.edu.au
Dr Jean Duruz is a senior lecturer in cultural studies in the School of Communication at the University of South Australia. Her teaching focuses on meanings of space, urban cultures, everyday cultures and practices of ethnography. Her publications trace connections of culture, place and identity through food exchanges in streets and markets of global cities such as New York City, London and Singapore. Jean Duruz is a researcher within the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies, and has been an Academic Visitor to the Department of Geography, both at the National University of Singapore and at Royal Holloway University of London.
Dr
Andrew Allan
School of Natural & Built Environments, University of South Australia
T: +61 8 8302 1476 E:
andrew.allan@unisa.edu.au
Dr Andrew Allan is a Senior Lecturer in transport, urban and regional
planning in the School of Natural and Built Environments at the University
of South Australia. He has nearly 20 years experience as a planning academic
in Australia and the United Kingdom, specialising in transport planning,
regional planning and urban planning. His main current research interest
focuses on evaluating the transport energy implications of urban development
and examining how planners can usefully incorporate this in to the
development assessment process.