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:
- 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.
- To promote UQ’s expertise in urban and housing research in local national and international arenas.
- 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
5. Urban Resilience and Sustainability
Our cities are the setting in which we live, work and play. And, because they also serve as the site for wealth creation and the repository of innovations, our cities also experience a vast influx of population, the expansion of physical assets, and an ever-increasing level of economic activities. Together, these disproportionately increase the risks our cities face to the impacts of disasters and climate change. While we recognise that strategies to reduce risk in cities must move beyond preparedness and response, and must be the key to sustainable urban development, it also becomes crucial to understand how the concepts of resilience and sustainability promote a diversity of solutions towards building more resilient urban communities in the context of growth.
The Urban Resilience and Sustainability Research Cluster is underpinned by pro-active, evidence-based, and target-driven approaches to investigate how cities, and their people, cope with, recover from and adapt to disasters and disaster impacts. Because of the multidimensional nature of resilience as a strategy towards sustainability, our work covers a wide spectrum of research on social ecological urban systems, climate change adaptation, environmental and natural resource economics, green infrastructure, transportation, urban environmental governance, and urban water resources, among others, as pathways towards realising desired urban futures.
Our research specialist in this field include (a-z):
- Associate Professor Lynda Cheshire
- Dr Sébastien Darchen
- Dr Suzanna Fay-Ramirez
- Dr Kelly Greenop
- Dr Anthony Halog
- Dr Laurel Johnson
- Dr Chris Landorf
- Dr Iderlina Mateo-Babiano
- Hon. Assoc. Prof. John Minnery
- Dr Dorina Pojani
- Professor Helen Ross
- Hon. Assoc. Prof. Glen Searle
- Dr Peter Walters
Our PhD candidates in this field include:
- Angela Ballard
- Kirsty Chessher-Brown
- Anthony Kimpton
- Redento Recio
- Abbas Shieh
- Jose Tomas
Contact Us
Lynda Cheshire (l.cheshire@uq.edu.au)
Laurel Johnson (l.johnson3@uq.edu.au)
Cameron Parsell (c.parsell@uq.edu.au)
Peter Walters (p.walters@uq.edu.au)
Anthony Kimpton (a.kimpton@uq.edu.au)