Mentors

Professor Carl Grodach

Monash Art Design & Architecture
Monash University

Carl Grodach is Foundation Professor of Urban Planning and Design at Monash University. His research focuses on economic development and land use planning in relation to urban manufacturing and industrial lands, cultural industries, and circular economies. His books include Urban Revitalization: Remaking Cities in a Changing World (Routledge) and The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy: Global Perspectives (Routledge). He was the inaugural Director of Monash Urban Planning and Design from 2017-2022 and is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal City, Culture, and Society (Elsevier).

Associate Professor Crystal Legacy

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
The University of Melbourne

Crystal Legacy is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia where she is also the Co-Director of the Informal Urbanism Research Hub. She resides on Wurundjeri Country where she writes, teaches and works with communities on issues related to urban transport politics, public participation and the post-political city. She publishes in a range of academic journals, provides critical commentary for local and national media outlets, and works in solidarity with a range of community-based groups seeking climate just outcomes in transport planning. Crystal is an Editor of the journal Planning Theory and Practice and is the co-Chair of the Australasian Cities Research Network.

Dr Natalie Osborne

School of Engineering and Built Environment
Griffith University

Dr Natalie Osborne is an environmental planner and urban geographer and a white settler living on unceded Jagera and Turrbal Country. She is interested in social, spatial, and climate justice, resisting alt-right, eco-fascist, & neo-colonial responses to social and environmental crises, and working towards collective liberation. She is a co-producer of Radio Reversal, a critical theory and politics program broadcast on 4ZZZ 102.1FM, and an organiser with the Brisbane Free University.

Professor Kristian Ruming

Centre for Housing and Urban Research
Macquarie University

Kristian Ruming is a Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He is Director of the Macquarie University Housing and Urban Research Centre. He is an urban and economic geographer with research interests centring on issues of urban governance, housing and planning.