ISR - Students - Postgraduate research
The ISR offers excellent opportunities for postgraduate study in cities
and housing, media and communications, citizenship and government,
and philanthropy and social investment.
It has a dynamic research environment made up of active researchers,
skilled supervisors and friendly colleagues. The ISR has a lively,
growing cohort of postgraduate students, who work closely with research
staff on joint projects with direct policy relevance.
Many are full-time and are supported by Australian Research Council
scholarships and Linkage grants with industry, and by the Australian
Housing and Urban Research Institute. Others come to the ISR as part-time
students building on their work experiences in the public, non-government
and private sectors.
The ISR offers a chance to move away from conventional disciplines
such as sociology, economics, political science, philosophy or media
studies. Instead, students have the opportunity to work on real problems
that cut across disciplinary boundaries.
ISR supervisors are respected figures in Australian public policy
debates, including experts in various policy areas such as Terry Burke and Kath Hulse (cities and housing), Julian
Thomas and Jock Given (communications policy) and Denise Meredyth, Brian Costar
and Klaus Neumann (citizenship and government).
Researchers at the ISR will encourage you to build conceptual and
practical research skills, while working on fascinating topics very
much in the public eye, such as these and others:
- affordable private and public housing
- housing assistance and management
- privatisation and public-private partnerships
in housing, transport, infrastructure
- urban planning
- community renewal, consultation and social indicators
- measuring progress in democratic life
- immigration and refugee policy
- the digital divide and information poverty
- citizenship education, multiethnicity and pluralism
- media policy
- media, convergence and intellectual property
- immigration, refugees, human rights and multiethnicity
- the social impact of wired communities
- public sector reform: third way approaches, e-government,
place-based management
As well as excellent supervision, the ISR offers regular postgraduate
activities. Students give papers and attend regular seminars,
as well as participating in the ISR's other social and collegial activities.
Students are also invited to participate in team-based research and
planning. International exchanges are available and encouraged, as
is attendance at conferences. ISR staff will also happily discuss options
for scholarships and funding that might support a candidacy.
For further information about postgraduate opportunities at the ISR,
contact the Postgraduate Co-ordinator:
Professor Denise Meredyth
Telephone: +61 3 9214 5738
Email: dmeredyth@swin.edu.au
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