Current Projects
Our current projects span diverse areas of housing, urban and regional planning research. From creating a data infrastructure around rental housing conditions to investigating the links between housing and health, our staff are on the cutting edge of field-leading research with real world impacts.
The Australian Rental Monitor: A Data Infrastructure
ARC Linkage Infrastructure (2022-2025)
ACHR researchers: Professor Emma Baker; Professor Rebecca Bentley; Dr Lyrian Daniel
Other CIs: Professor Andrew Beer; Professor Kerry London; Associate Professor Christian Andi Nygaard; Associate Professor Steven Rowley; Associate Professor Wendy Stone
Spatial Data Enrichment for High-Resolution Spatial Modelling
ARC Linkage Infrastructure (2022-2025)
ACHR researchers: Professor Emma Baker, Professor Neil Coffee (adjunct)
External lead: University of Canberra
Cold in Australian Homes
NHMRC Ideas Grant Project (2021-2024)
ACHR Researchers: Dr Lyrian Daniel; Professor Emma Baker; Dr Cynthia Isley; Professor Rebecca Bentley
Evidence for action on cold, damp and mould in Australian homes
NHMRC Ideas grant (2021-2024)
ACHR researchers: Professor Emma Baker; Professor Rebecca Bentley; Dr Lyrian Daniel
Other CIs: Professor Tony Blakely; Professor Shyamali Dharmage; Dr. Lucy Telfar Barnard
External lead: The University of Melbourne
Academy of LIVed-Experience (ALIVE)
NHMRC grant (2021-2026)
ACHR researcher: Professor Emma Baker
Other CIs: Professor Sandra Eades; Associate Professor Amanda Neil; Associate Professor Victoria Palmer; Professor George Patton; Professor David Preen; Professor Amanda Wheeler
External lead: The University of Melbourne
The impact of the pandemic on the Australian rental sector
AHURI funded project 2021
ACHR researchers: Professor Emma Baker; Professor Rebecca Bentley; Dr Lyrian Daniel
Inquiry into housing in a circular economy
AHURI Inquiry 2021
ACHR researcher: Professor Emma Baker
Other CIs: Professor Ralph Horne, Professor Tony Dalton Professor Stefanie Dühr, Associate Professor Hazel Easthope,
External lead: RMIT
Sustainable social housing: solutions for large-scale retrofit
AHURI Inquiry sub-project 2021
ACHR researcher: Professor Emma Baker
Support project for "Inquiry into housing in a circular economy" (Professor Ralph Horne, RMIT).
Healthy Housing CRE
NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (2020-2025)
ACHR researchers: Professor Emma Baker; Professor Rebecca Bentley; Dr Lyrian Daniel
Other CIs: Professor Andrew Beer; Professor Tony Blakely; Professor Alex Brown; Professor Sanda Eades; Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman; Dr. Natasha Howard; Professor David Jacobs; Professor Anton van den Hengel
External lead: The University of Melbourne
Precarious housing, housing assistance and wellbeing: a multi-dimensional investigation
AHURI grant (2020-2021)
ACHR researchers: Professor Emma Baker; Professor Rebecca Bentley
Other CIs: Professor Rachel Ong
External lead: Curtin University
Closing the housing gap: a spotlight on intergenerational inequalities
ARC Discovery Grant (2019-2021)
ACHR researcher: Professor Emma Baker; Professor Rebecca Bentley
Other CIs: Dr. Aaron Reeves; Professor Richard Ronald
External lead: University of Melbourne
Housing energy efficiency transitions
ARC Linkage Project (2019-2022)
ACHR researcher: Professor Emma Baker
Other CIs: Professor Ralph Horne; Dr. Trivess Moore; Dr. Francisco Azpitarte Raposeiras; Dr. Nocola Willand; Professor Gordon Walker; Mr. Damian Sullivan
External lead: RMIT