UQ-HAUS: Network for Housing and Urban Studies

UQ-HAUS:

The University of Queensland Housing and Urban Studies Network (otherwise known as UQ HAUS) brings together over 60 researchers from around UQ to better understand the key issues in contemporary urban and housing policy, practice and research.

Established in 2013, the network is uniquely interdisciplinary, incorporating expertise from the disciplines of architecture, criminology, economics, geography, media studies, planning, sociology and social work. Our work is theoretically informed and pays attention to questions of mobility, inequality, power, governance and change as they relate to urban and housing matters. But our research is also of significant community and policy interest and our researchers are critically engaged in public debates.

Our mission is threefold:

  1.  To foster research excellence among UQ’s housing and urban studies scholars by enhancing collaboration across disciplines; creating an intellectually stimulating environment to foster new ideas; and building the capacity of RHD students and early career researchers.
  2. To promote UQ’s expertise in urban and housing research in local national and international arenas. 
  3. To provide a vehicle for external engagement and knowledge transfer by fostering stronger linkages with governments, business and communities in order to address global and local housing and urban challenges.   

Our research strengths

4. Cities of the Global South

The cities of the global South, will be the urban population growth centres of the 21st Century. Most of the worlds largest and fastest growing cities are now in the global South and provide new opportunities for migrants and express cultural richness and innovation. These cities are in constant change and pose some of the most important environmental, economic and social justice challenges facing the world.  Researchers are focussed on governance, growth and management, services and infrastructure, housing required to offer decent living conditions to all urban citizens, the coexistence of different social groups and the impact of natural disasters and hazards.

Our research examines the dynamics of these cities, governance structures and the opportunities different actors have to influence policy-making and power relations. It also addresses the perceptions and practices that shape place making and sense of belonging. The analytical lens combines the use of ‘traditional’ concepts from urban studies, sociology, anthropology and political science, but also other concepts that explain the reality of the urban global South as different from the urban experience in the Global North.

Our research specialist in this field include (a-z):

  • Dr Kelly Greenop
  • Dr Anthony Halog
  • Dr Iderlina Mateo-Babiano
  • Hon. Assoc. Prof. John Minnery
  • Dr Cameron Parsell Research Fellow
  • Dr Sonia Roitman
  • Dr Dorina Pojani
  • Professor Helen Ross
  • Dr Thomas Sigler
  • Dr Peter Walters

Our PhD candidates in this field include:

  • Angela Ballard
  • Johanna Brugman Alvarez
  • Redento Recio
  • Jose Tomas