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David is a cultural geographer that specialises in ethnographic methods, particularly embodied and affective understandings of settler-colonial policy and activism

His research to date includes a focus upon remote Aboriginal housing, inner-city public housing, disability in the city, environmental controversy and green-led urban regeneration.

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Conflicting imaginaries of home and care in urban renewal

This panel and exhibition event brought together leading researchers from different international contexts to examine the experiences and struggles of home, care and belonging under conditions of displacement and racial banishment.

State budget bounce-back: experts on where funding should go

After undergoing the harshest lockdowns in the country, how should Victoria spend its budget to bounce back? RMIT academics share their expert view on where best to splash the cash for the state’s COVID-19 recovery.

Three key takeaways ahead of the Victorian budget

As Victoria turns the corner, economic, social housing and urban planning experts point to three key shifts in the upcoming Victorian Budget.

CUR researchers among The Conversation’s leading thinkers

Two of our RMIT CUR researchers have been recognised in The Conversation’s 2020 annual yearbook examining a life changing year and what comes next.

Melbourne tower lockdowns unfairly target already vulnerable public housing residents

This week, the Victorian government unilaterally placed the residents of nine public housing towers in inner Melbourne under “hard lockdown” due to the “explosive potential” of increasing COVID-19 cases.

Publications

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Urban greening for health and wellbeing in low-income communities: A baseline study in Melbourne, Australia

Dr David Kelly, Professor Melanie Davern, Dr Leila Mahmoudi Farahani, Carl Higgs, Professor Cecily Maller

Cities

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Does the Big Housing Build address the housing crisis in Victoria?

Professor Libby Porter, Dr David Kelly

RMIT University

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NLASN Homelessness Response to COVID-19

Dr David Kelly

RMIT University

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