People

Operations Team

Centre Director

Deputy Director (Academic), Lead: Seminar Series, Retreat and Annual Lecture

Operations Lead

Communications Officer

Strategic Leadership Group

The Strategic Leadership Group includes the Centre's Operations Team, Portfolio Leads and Research Cluster Leads

Associate Director (International), Lead: International Partnerships

Early Career Academics Convener

City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation, Lead: City of Melbourne Program

Research Fellow in International Urban Migration

Research Fellow, Urban Biodiversity

Lecturer in Anthropology

Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy

Director, Melbourne School of Design

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

Centre Fellows

Centre Fellows are a committed, multi-disciplinary, and engaged community forming the Centre’s core team of scholars and practitioners.

Senior Lecturer

Postdoc Research Fellow in Cities and Urbanism

City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation, Lead: City of Melbourne Program

Research Fellow In Urban Studies Architecture, Building and Planning

Lecturer in Sociology

Research Assistant in The Retrofit Lab

Research Assistant - Night-Shift

Melbourne Enterprise Principal Fellow in Informed Cities

McKenzie Research Fellow

Research Fellow in City Diplomacy

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development

Professor of Criminology

Research Fellow In Urban Studies Architecture, Building and Planning

Project Officer - Urban Innovation

Scaling sustainability: the role of cities in multilevel waste governance

Graduate Researchers

Socio-Spatial Exploits: A Critical Anthology of Heists, Hacks, Hijacks, and Copycats

Climate Change Impacts, Migration and Human Security: Grassroot perspectives from Informal Settlements in Fiji

Metropolitan governance and cross-sectoral infrastructure planning

Voices from the suburbs: facing large scale development in South Sulawesi Provinces, Indonesia

Cemeteries as Civic Spaces: Public Participation in the Planning of Urban Burial Sites

Scaling sustainability: the role of cities in multilevel waste governance

Community resilience and shared spaces: navigating identity and difference in new multi-residential developments in metropolitan Melbourne

Graduate Researcher

Visiting Fellows

Visiting Fellows are engaging practitioners and scholars outside of the University of Melbourne who join the Centre community for a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and culture, plus enriching collaborations.

Visiting Fellow

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Urban Politics

Visiting Fellow

A/Professor of Public Policy, The Education University of Hong Kong

Visiting Fellow

Centre Honoraries

Professor of Global Urban Politics

Honorary Professorial Fellow within Social and Political Sciences

Centre Honorary Fellow

Honorary Professorial Fellow

Advisory Board

The Centre’s advisory board provides strategic input into our direction and focus, and supports the Centre’s Management Team and Director in ensure we address pressing and impactful urban issues locally, domestically and internationally.

Professor Sara Wills	Pro Vice-Chancellor Engagement Global Culture and Engagement	University of Melbourne
Professor Alastair Sloan	PVC Research Collaboration Research and Enterprise	University of Melbourne
Professor Julie Willis	Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning	University of Melbourne
Professor Jennifer Balint	Dean, Faculty of Arts	University of Melbourne
Alison Leighton	Chief Executive Officer	City of Melbourne
Professor Winston Chow	Associate Professor of Urban Climate	Singapore Management University
Rachel Huxley	Head of Mitigation and Climate and Health	Wellcome Trust
Professor Kirsten Parris	Director of the Office for Environmental Programs	University of Melbourne
Anthony F. Pipa	Senior Fellow in the Centre for Sustainable Development	Brookings Institution
Aromar Revi	Director	Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
Malcolm Smith	Australasian Cities Leader	ARUP
Molly Whelan	CEO	Foundation for Young Australians (FYA)
Kelly Grigsby	Chief Executive Officer	Municipal Association of Victoria

Centre Associates

Centre Associates represent the Centre as champions in their respective academic divisions and are active participants in our community.

Derlie Mateo-Babiano, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning	Sareh Moosavi, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Judy Bush, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning	Mandy Nicholson, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Jennifer Day, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning	Kirsten Parris, Faculty of Science
Bianca Fileborn, Faculty of Arts	Hannah Robertson, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning
Amy Hahs, Faculty of Science	Peter Rush, Faculty of Law
John Hajek, Faculty of Arts	Sebastian Antoine Salay, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Anna Kosovac,Faculty of Arts	Nicholas Williams, Faculty of Science
Julie Miao, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Operations Team

Marita Doak

Strategic Leadership Group

Centre Fellows

Enzo Lara - Hamilton

Graduate Researchers

Chethna Ben

Uly Faoziyah

Samuel Holleran

Visiting Fellows

Maya Costa Pinto

Pablo Fuentenebro Alonso

Kris Hartley

Centre Honoraries

Louise Johnson

Advisory Board

Centre Associates