Research
Urban planning, aviation policy, housing governance, and university teaching & learning.
An ongoing project investigating economic and planning impacts of airport city strategies at secondary airports. Combines spatial analysis with qualitative case studies of Gold Coast, Avalon, Suvarnabhumi, and KLIA.
A GIS-based analysis of low-cost carrier route networks and their spatial relationship to population density, employment centres, and housing growth corridors around secondary Australian airports.
A comparative study of TOD implementation in Bangkok, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur, drawing governance and financing lessons for Australian station-area planning.
Analyses documented cases of intergovernmental coordination failure in airport-adjacent development decisions across Queensland, NSW, and Victoria, proposing a tiered joint planning agreement model.
Argues that informal settlements are better understood as adaptive responses to housing market exclusion rather than planning failures, and proposes a revised theoretical framework for planning practice.
Examines the relationship between zoning restrictiveness and housing supply elasticity across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. Finds that infill development constraints are the primary driver of affordability deterioration in inner suburbs.
This doctoral thesis examines the governance and planning challenges arising from Gold Coast Airport's position on the Queensland–NSW border. It develops a framework for cross-border planning coordination in airport regions.
Examines the gap between assessment formats in Australian planning education and the communication skills demanded of practitioners, proposing an authentic assessment framework trialled at UNE.