Meet the team
Our project team is a group of human geographers with extensive research experience in understanding housing and mobility. Our project is funded by the Australian Research Council.
Professor David Bissell | Chief Investigator
David is leading the project. He has expertise in how transformations in work, mobility and housing are reshaping people's lives. His research develops concepts that help to better understand these transformations. He aims to help communities and stakeholders navigate these transformations in inclusive and socially-just ways. His book Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities was published in 2018. David is based in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Professor Ilan Wiesel | Chief Investigator
Ilan seeks to understand what a caring, just and inclusive city might look like, and how we might achieve it in practice. Through this work he considers different aspects of social diversity and inequality in cities, especially through the lens of social class, dis/ability, and cultural difference. His book Power, Glamour and Angst: Inside Australia's Elite Neighbourhoods was published in 2018. Ilan is based in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Professor Peter Adey | Chief Investigator
Peter explores how mobility, infrastructure, and governance shape social life. He has particular expertise in understanding displacement and is co-editor of The Handbook of Displacement (2020). His latest book Evacuation: The Politics and Aesthetics of Movement in Emergency (2024) examines how evacuation is managed, experienced, and symbolically charged. Peter is based in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University.
Dr Elizabeth Straughan | Senior Research Fellow
Elizabeth uses qualitative methods to investigate how embodied practices of everyday life affect wellbeing to reflect on issues of social justice. Through this research Elizabeth uses feminist and social theory to consider the micro-politics of mobile work, the home, body focused technologies and more-than-human relations. She is co-editor of Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters (2015). Elizabeth is based in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
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