Event recording
Hear the researchers involved in the Trust’s newest and oldest Research Incubators describe their research and its impact on policy.
Research incubators are the Trust’s flagship research projects where a small team of academics supported by a post-doctoral research fellow and additional funds from industry, tackle a contemporary research issue.
Speakers
Associate Professor Tooran Alizadeh, Infrastructure Governance Incubator, University of Sydney
Dr Crystal Legacy, University of Melbourne, Informal Urbanism Research Hub
Associate Professor Tess Lea, Housing for Health Incubator, University of Sydney
Dr Liam Grealy, Housing for Health Incubator, University of Sydney.
Associate Professor Tooran Alizadeh is based at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. She is the lead CI on the Infrastructure Governance Incubator funded by the Halloran Trust. Her research is at the intersection of urbanism and telecommunication planning with broader interests in strategic planning and infrastructure. Her research has a made meaningful contribution to the public discourse around the urban and equity implications of the National Broadband Network in Australia. She is also the Associate Editor of Telematics and Informatics - an interdisciplinary journal on the social impacts of the new technologies.
Dr Crystal Legacy is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne where she is also the Deputy Director of the Informal Urbanism Research Hub. Crystal has published widely on the topics of urban transport, strategic planning and urban policy. Her current research examines the governance and policy challenges of planning future urban transport, and the politics of citizen participation in infrastructure planning.
Associate Professor Tess Lea is an anthropologist who studies bureaucratic formations and ponders why social policy is so hard to get right. Her research explores different manifestations of policy dysfunction under continuing settler occupation: where it occurs, to whom blame is ascribed, and how to intercept it. Housing, health, incarceration, infrastructure, education, militarisation, environments…all come into her research purview. She leads the Housing for Health Incubator in partnership with the not-for-profit organisation, Healthabitat.
Dr Liam Grealy is the Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Housing for Health Incubator in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. His Incubator research is focused on housing and infrastructure policy in regional and remote Australia and southeast Louisiana.