AHRC 2010 Keynote: Bill Randolph ; Socially sustainable higher density: Plenty of questions; not many answers

Bill Randolph, Director of City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia gave this keynote speech at the 2010 Australasian Housing Researchers Conference. ; Professor Randolph joined the Faculty of the Built Environment at The University of New South Wales in August 2002 as Professor and Director of the City Futures Research Centre. He is a past Director of the UNSW/UWS AHURI Research Centre. For the previous six years he was Director of the Urban Frontiers Program at The University of Western Sydney. At UNSW he leads a research team specialising in housing policy, urban development and metropolitan planning policy issues. ; Professor Randolph has over 30 years experience as a researcher on housing and urban policy issues in the academic, government, non-government and private sectors including five years in market research and consultancy based in London, with a primary focus on housing and urban research for the central and local government sectors. He also spent eight years as Head of Research at the National Housing Federation in London, the national peak body for non-profit affordable housing landlords, where he led the development of national research into affordable housing provision. During this time he spent a period of sabbatical leave at the Australian National University researching housing affordability and community housing in Australia. Professor Randolph has also worked as a research fellow at the Open University and the UK Department of the Environment. ; The aim of the 2010 Australasian Housing Researchers’ Conference is to provide a forum in which housing researchers, practitioners and professionals can readily present, debate and explore the cutting edge issues concerning housing in what has become is a highly challenging global context. The recent economic downturn provides the opportunity for those involved in housing research to ‘pause for thought’ and re-frame processes, practices and partnerships for future development to meet the diverse needs of Australians and ...