AHURI Adelaide

Professor Emma Baker

Emma Baker is Professor of Housing Research at the University of Adelaide where she leads the Housing and Healthy Cities Research Group and is Director of the Stretton Institute’s ‘Building a City for the Future’ research program. Emma's research examines the cumulative effects of housing, environmental, locational and socioeconomic vulnerabilities on wellbeing, with particular interests in utilising large longitudinal, administrative datasets to create knowledge that responds to real policy problems.

Professor Jon Kellett

Jon Kellett recently retired from his position as Professor of Planning & Property at the University of Adelaide and is now focusing on research into cities, housing and climate change as Adjunct Professor. Jon has particular research interests in energy and the environment, climate change impacts on cities and regions and urban sustainability. He has an extensive publication record in urban research and is currently active in critiquing the application of the new South Australian Planning and Development code.

Professor Javen Shi

Professor Javen Shi is the Founding Director of Probabilistic Graphical Model Group at the University of Adelaide, Director in Advanced Releasing and Learning of Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), and the Chief Scientist of Smarter Regions. Javen has transferred his research in probabilistic graphical models and counterfactuals to diverse industries including agriculture, mining, sport, manufacturing, bushfire, water utility, health and education.

Professor Jian Zuo

Professor Jian Zuo is a construction manager and environmental engineer based in the School of Architecture and Built Environment, the University of Adelaide. Jian's main research interest is around achieving good health, safety and sustainability and both building and urban levels through using alternative construction methods (e.g. prefabrication), technologies (smart technologies) and policy interventions to achieve better environmental and economic sustainability of development projects.

Associate Professor Michele Slatter

Associate Professor Michele Slatter’s research interests have focussed on issues of Housing Law and Policy, particularly ‘housing risk’, precarious tenancies and homelessness. Her research has explored eviction, discrimination, anti-social behaviour, tenant support, tenure change, affordable housing and philanthropic funding. She has contributed as a consultant to a wide range of housing policy, including South Australian government projects on tenancy dispute processes, community housing, boarding house law, hoarding interventions and housing assistance.

Dr. Ruidong Chang

Ruidong Chang is a senior lecturer of construction management at the School of Architecture & Built Environment. Ruidong’s research area is sustainability in Construction 4.0, with a recent focus on green Building Information Modelling. His research spans construction projects, corporate and industry level technological developments, and policy frameworks and impacts. Ruidong has participated in various research projects funded or supported by institutions such as the International Energy Agency and Building Construction Authority of Singapore.

Dr. Tracey Dodd

Dr Tracey Dodd is a lecturer with the Adelaide Business School. Her research expertise includes social impact measurement, affordable housing policy, and innovative approaches to end homelessness. Tracey has 20 years of industry experience in government policy, including developmental work on national agreements and state partnerships, including the National Housing and Homelessness Agreement and South Australian Government Aspire Social Impact Bond to end homelessness.

Dr. Lyrian Daniel

Lyrian Daniel is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Adelaide. Her research focuses on the relative risk of housing disadvantage, households’ lived experience of poor housing conditions, and their implications for population health and wellbeing. Lyrian has established an innovative research programme on housing precarity (across affordability and instability) and indoor cold (including upstream problems of energy hardship).  She has skills across all areas of research and project management, including scoping and project development, literature reviews, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, and dissemination.

Dr. Linda Isherwood

Dr Linda Isherwood is a Senior Research Fellow with the Future of Employment and Skills research centre. Linda has research expertise in the fields of housing policy and practice (with a particular focus on Indigenous and remote housing), social inclusion, aged care, disability and healthcare. She is experienced in both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies including the evaluation of policies and programs. She is an experienced social worker who has worked extensively in the mental health and disability sectors.

Dr. Megan Moskos

Dr Megan Moskos is a Senior Research Fellow and Sociology Lead at the Future of Employment and Skills research centre. Megan’s research experience is in the fields of housing policy and practice, especially with disadvantaged groups and those living in rural and remote areas (including Aboriginal and CALD communities). She specialises in the methodologies that are necessary for social research, combining both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

Dr. Laurence Lester

Laurence has a Master’s Degree and PhD in the fields of applied economics and econometrics using both time-series and panel data.  His interests are the application of econometric modelling and analysis to social issues such as affordable housing and the effects of housing on mental health and general welfare, but he also has extensive experience in the application of econometrics in other fields. He is highly experienced with large cross-sectional, longitudinal and time-series data and has used such data in applying complex and varied econometric analysis.

Dr. Romy Wasserman

Romy is an early career researcher at the Hugo Centre for Population and Housing. She completed a PhD in Human Society in the Department of Geography, Environment and Population at the University of Adelaide in 2015, receiving the John Lewis Medal for Geography from the Royal Geographical Society for South Australia. Romy's research interests include population and migration issues such as international migration, transnationalism, and migrant settlement, with recent projects focussed on regional migration and migrant housing.

Ms. Laura James