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27 September 2017

Are you an urban policy or planning or housing professional ambitious to progress your career in this field? UNSW’s new Graduate Certificate in Advanced City Policy and Practice could help you do just that. ACPP is a bite-sized post-grad program targeted towards mid-career staff in relevant government agencies, local councils, …

28 June 2017

Devised by CFRC and launched on 17 May, the new Queensland Rental Vulnerability Index is a new tool for measuring and mapping problems in our rental housing system. ‘Rental vulnerability’ is defined here as the vulnerability of persons to problems that may make their rental housing unaffordable, insecure or inappropriate, …

4 May 2017

City Futures Research Centre has been awarded the Planning Institute of Australia National Award for Planning Excellence for their work on ‘Renewing the Compact City: Economically viable and socially sustainable approaches to urban redevelopment in a complex multi-stakeholder environment’.The 2017 Award for Planning Excellence was for the ‘Cutting Edge Research …

26 April 2017

CFRC’s Professor Hal Pawson has been appointed to an Advisory Panel to oversee a GBP 7.5 million housing research program shortly commencing in the UK. The initiative, funded largely by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), is named the Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE). Led by Glasgow …

18 April 2017

The Draft District Plans contain a large number of new and potentially ground-breaking ideas and proposals. Given the scope of these proposals, we have limited our comments to areas with which the Centre has a particular interest or experience.Click here to read our submission.*Imaged sourced from Leaflet and OpenStreetMap.

3 April 2017

Three years after becoming Built Environment’s first ever Future Fellowship recipient, and one of two Rising Stars in the Faculty, City Futures’ Senior Research Fellow Dr Hazel Easthope is now being recognised as one of UNSW’s inaugural assembly of 21 Scientia Fellows. The UNSW Scientia Fellowship Program was set up …

13 March 2017

City Futures Director Bill Randolph spoke at the WSROC Liveability Forum with Heather Nesbitt, Social Commissioner, Greater Sydney Commission and Meredith Jones, Director Engagement, Greater Sydney Commission.Click here to download Bill's presentation.

6 March 2017

Along with other UNSW colleagues, CFRC is celebrating a bumper crop of funding approvals in this year’s Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute funding round. These will underpin projects rolling out in 2017 and 2018. In their research on ‘Housing and Digital Disruption’ a team led by CFRC’s Professor Chris …

2 March 2017

City Futures Research Centre Associate Director Professor Hal Pawson has been appointed as a Program Adviser for the National Housing Conference 2017, which will be held in Sydney later this year. Convened by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) in partnership with the NSW Department of Family and …

1 December 2016

Bill Randolph, CFRC Director, addresses the Committee for Economic Development of Australia seminar on Sydney 2030: Managing Sydney’s Growth, last Friday. Speaking after the NSW Planning Minister, Rob Stokes, and Greater Sydney Commissioner, Lucy Turnbull, Bill spoke on the implementation issues facing the new Commission in delivering the six new …

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