In this edition:- Director, Professor Nicole Gurran awarded the Australian Cities Research Network medal
- New Research Incubator: Climate change, place and mental health
- Watch on demand! Festival of ‘Contested’ Urbanism
- Student Film Competition – award announcement
- New book alert: Planning Better Cities – A Practical Guide, Halvard Dalheim
- Welcome to new Advisory Board member - Jess Herder
- Media mentions and commentary
- Save the date: Upcoming events
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Director, Professor Nicole Gurran awarded the Australasian Cities Research Network medal
We are delighted to announce that the Henry Halloran Research Trust director, Professor Nicole Gurran, was awarded the Australasian Cities Research Network medal at the recent State of Australasian Cities conference in Wellington, New Zealand. The medal is awarded in recognition of sustained and outstanding service contribution to the ACRN community and to urban research scholarship and policy.
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|  | Prof Nicole Gurran with fellow award recipient, Prof Claire Freeman, and Professor Wendy Steele, RMIT
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New Research Incubator: Climate change, place and mental health
The research incubator program is our flagship funding scheme, designed to foster opportunities for multi-disciplinary teams to build impactful research projects and collaborations. Led by outstanding mid- or early- career researchers, previous research incubators have focused on housing, Aboriginal housing, citizen engagement, and infrastructure governance. We are delighted to announce our next research incubator ‘Climate change, place and mental health’ will be led by Dr Marlee Bower. This incubator aims to understand the causal pathways and intersections between built environment and mental health in the context of growing climate change in Australia.
The program is led by Dr Marlee Bower, a Research Fellow at the Matilda Centre. Dr Bower’s work addresses the broader social determinants of mental health and how this relates to the built environment. She is currently working as the Academic Lead on Australia's Mental Health Think Tank.
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The Festival of Urbanism 2023 involved a stimulating program of events across Australia in September and October this year. We extend sincere thanks to our eminent Festival speakers, and to our wonderful and engaged audiences in Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, and Canberra. Catch up on any of the events via our website or check out some of the highlights via the links below.
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Wicked Assumptions: how planning premises from the past shape the cities of tomorrow
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Contested platforms: from Airbnb to the autonomous city
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Contested futures: Lessons from New Orleans in disaster recovery and planning for future climate resilience
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Contested Country: From the frontier wars to contemporary heritage conservation, protest and settler memorials
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From Social Housing To The Missing Middle: How Do We Unlock Affordable Supply In NSW?
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Videography and narrative methods are increasingly important for urban professionals to communicate across diverse audiences. So we were very pleased to once more sponsor a student film competition as part of the Festival of Urbanism 2023. Open to students from the University of Sydney, as well as our Festival partners Monash University, the University of Tasmania, and the University of Western Australia, entries were required to engage with the theme of ‘contested’ urbanism.
Congratulations to Secil Taskoparan Stassi, who the judges highly commended for “Life at the River Front” which explores how urban planning sits in contrast to the lived experience of place, and to Tanvi Patel, also highly commended for “Roadside Fine Dine”, which contrasts images of India and Australia with original sound and expert urban planning commentary.
Abhinav Konde was awarded Best Production for his film "Cockatoo", described by the judges as a poetic exploration of the history of Cockatoo island.
We thank the University of Sydney’s Student Planning Association for their efforts in coordinating the competition.
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Still from 'Cockatoo' by Abhinav Konde, University of Sydney 2023
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The Henry Halloran Research Trust’s Practitioner in Residence scheme is designed to offer practitioners an opportunity to develop and share their professional expertise within a University setting. Many of the projects undertaken by our practitioners have made important contributions to policy or the profession. So it is with great pleasure that we announce the publication of Planning Better Cities – A practical Guide, by former Practitioner in Residence, Halvard Dalheim. Halvard, an award-winning city and regional planner with extensive experience across metropolitan and regional planning, developed this book during his time in residence at the University. Highly recommended, the book provides an accessible, practical guide to the strategic planning process, filling a gap in the academic literature which is accessible accessible to students, recent graduates, and anyone wishing to understand more about city planning.
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Welcome to Our New Board member, Jess Hearder
We are honoured to announce that Jess Herder has been appointed to the Henry Halloran Trust Advisory Board. Jess is a Dunghutti woman, who grew up on Dharawal Country in southern Sydney and now lives and works on Dharug Country in northwest Sydney. Jess has over 20 years' experience working with NSW government in natural and cultural heritage management and land use planning. She has worked in several different roles developing and delivering a diversity of strategies, programs and projects, with Aboriginal people and communities at state, regional and local levels. Jess holds tertiary qualifications in Environmental Science, Project Management, and Urban and Regional Planning and is Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, at the University of Sydney.
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Save the date: Upcoming events
Our popular public lecture series resumes in early 2024. Richard Ronald, Professor of Housing and Chair of Political and Economic Geographies (PEG) at the University of Amsterdam, will be speaking on 15 February, and Dr Rowan Arundel, Assistant Professor in Geographic Information Science (GIS) in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development at the University of Amsterdam will be delivering a seminar on 29 February.
Stay tuned for the registration links.
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Media Commentary:
The Henry Halloran Research Trust promotes evidence-informed contributions to public debate, through our publications, events, and media commentary.
Recent highlights include:
ABC News Radio featured an interview with Professor Nicole Gurran, on migration and housing and the need for more systematic reform to the housing system.
ABC Radio Nightlife, discussing the potential of granny flats as a solution to the housing shortage, with Professor Nicole Gurran.
ABC AM program, on the possibility of ending homelessness, with Professor Nicole Gurran.
SBS news, reporting an opinion piece by Professor Peter Phibbs and Professor Nicole Gurran and on short term rentals
ABC 7:30 on short term rentals, interviewing Professor Nicole Gurran.
See our full list of recent media items and commentary here
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The Henry Halloran Research Trust is a cross-disciplinary research centre focused on the profound challenges facing cities and regions in the 21st Century. Through our grants, projects and public events we foster research, education and dialogue across the many disciplines, professions and communities vital to creating better urban and regional futures.
We acknowledge the tradition of custodianship and law of the Country on which the University of Sydney campuses stand. We pay our respects to those who have cared and continue to care for Country.
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