Our People

Centre Management

Centre Director

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

Deputy Director (Pathways), Lead: Horizons Program

Deputy Director (Strategy and Operations), Lead: Symposium, Marketing and Communications

Associate Director (International), Lead: International Partnerships

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

Early Career Academics Convener

Centre Administration

Finance Officer

Centre Coordinator

Project Officer - Horizons

Design Internship (Web and Graphic Design)

Communications Officer

Project Officer - Urban Innovation

Centre Fellows

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

Centre Director

Postdoc Research Fellow in Cities and Urbanism

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

Director of Research Capability

Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning

Honorary Professorial Fellow within Social and Political Sciences

Honorary Centre Fellow

Enterprise Principal Fellow

Associate Professor in Urban Planning

Honorary, Historical and Philosophical Studies

Centre Honorary Fellow

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

Senior Lecturer Environmental Sustainability

Professor and Reader

Lecturer in Sociology

Research Fellow in City Diplomacy

Honorary Professorial Fellow

Lecturer in Professional Skills

Research Assistant in The Retrofit Lab

Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning

Arc Early Career Research Fellow (Decra)

Research Fellow in Youth and Cities

Melbourne Enterprise Principal Fellow in Informed Cities

Lecturer in Anthropology

Research Fellow in International Urban Migration

Research Fellow in Urban Biodiversity

Research Fellow City Diplomacy

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development

Professor of Criminology

Research Fellow In Urban Studies Architecture, Building and Planning

Graduate Researchers

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

Urban Innovation

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

Changing the workplace: embodied geographies and mobilities of coworking spaces

Research Fellow In Urban Studies Architecture, Building and Planning

Grassroots gender equality interventions in DIY music scenes in Australia

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

More than the who, what and where: Investigating Urban Food Forestry holistically through a relational and temporal SES lens

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

Scaling sustainability: the role of cities in multilevel waste governance

Ordinary Harms and Extraordinary Crises: Environmental harm and fire on the edges of the city

Research Fellow, Evidence to Action

Equity in access to urban green spaces (UGS) and its effect on well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Belt and Road Initiative, the ‘Second’ Global Cold War and competition for infrastructure financing in Special Economic Zones in Cambodia

Participation, collaboration and speculation in urban digital twin visualisations

Climate Change Experimentation in International City Networks

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

Making Up the Global City

City agency and global urban migration governance: a study of inclusive leadership at home and abroad

Form Follows Finance: Redesigning Housing Markets

Mapping the Queer City: Criminological Cartographies of LGBTQIA+ Safety and Comfort

Cripping Disability and public space

Structures of Desire: Crisis and Australia’s national fantasy

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

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

Urbanisation Specialist at UN-Habitat

Visiting Fellow in International Urban Politics

Urban Night Researcher, Harvard Graduate School of Design

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.

Dr Julie Wells	Vice-President (Strategy and Culture)	University of Melbourne
Professor Michael Wesley	Deputy Vice-Chancellor Global, Culture and Engagement	University of Melbourne
Professor Mark Hargreaves	Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research)	University of Melbourne
Alison Leighton	Chief Executive Officer	City of Melbourne
Dr Catherine Brown	Chief Executive Officer	Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation
Professor Winston Chow	Associate Professor of Urban Climate	Singapore Management University
Riyanti Djalante	Assistant Director for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance	Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Rachel Huxley	Head of Mitigation and Climate and Health	Wellcome Trust
Anthony F. Pipa	Senior Fellow in the Centre for Sustainable Development	Brookings Institution
Aromar Revi	Director	Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
Malcom Smith	Australasian Cities Leader	ARUP
Molly Whelan	Acting 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.

Simon Batterbury, Faculty of Science	Matthew Champion, Faculty of Arts
Annisa Beta, Faculty of Arts	Una McIlvenna, Faculty of Arts
Amy Hahs, Faculty of Science	Jeff Garmany, Faculty of Arts
Peter Rush, Faculty of Law	James Murphy, Faculty of Arts
Theresa Jones, Faculty of Science	Kirsten Parris, Faculty of Science
Stephen Livesley, Faculty of Science	Catherine Phillips, Faculty of Science
Claire Maree, Faculty of Arts	Megan Sharp, Faculty of Arts
Ariane Utomo, Faculty of Science	Mark Yaolin Wang, Faculty of Science

Centre Management

Centre Administration

Marita Doak

Leilani Leon

Centre Fellows

Enzo Lara - Hamilton

Sam Miles

Graduate Researchers

Chethna Ben

Sophie Devine

Hannah Fairlamb

Anastasia Gramatakos

Samuel Holleran

Emily Ross

Alana Scully

Joanna Stubbs

Visiting Fellows

Maya Costa Pinto

Pablo Fuentenebro Alonso

Kris Hartley

Clinton Moore

Andreina Seijas

Advisory Board

Centre Associates