Senior Professor of Urban Geography, University of Wollongong
I have a BA (Hons) in Geography/History, a Dip. Ed and PhD (1993) in Urban Geography from Dublin University. I am a fellow of the Academic of Social Sciences Australia (awarded 2016). I have been Director of the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space at the University of Wollongong since 2017, having previously been DIrector of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Newcastle, NSW (2006-2016). My research focusses on the changing geographies, practices and politics of urban governance, with a current focus on urban governance innovation. I am a former editor of Progress in Human Geography: an international flagship journal in the discipline.
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