2025 Centre Snapshot
The Centre creates significant impact in urban research by linking local initiatives with national and international governance frameworks. We measure our record of impact through partnerships, collaborations, training programs, outputs, and events.
Centre Research
The Melbourne Centre for Cities fosters a vibrant, diverse community of researchers engaged in a wide array of multidisciplinary projects, all of which align with four key research themes: Connected Cities,Sustainable Cities, Leading Cities and Equitable Cities.
Building from these values, the Centre has adopted a range of research objectives: scalability across neighbourhoods, cities and regions; improvement of lived experience in cities; and knowledge transfer, from academic concepts into policies and practice.
The outer ring represents our core values which define; how we conduct our research (in a multidisciplinary manner, with deep integrity, and through collaboration), who we work with (human and non-human subjects, international and local partners, and an emphasis that attends to communities and lived experience), and why we engage in our research (to make a difference, to achieve socially just urban outcomes, and to have long term and lasting impact).
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