Associate Professor Robin Goodman

Associate Professor Robin Goodman is Director of the AHURI RMIT Research Centre. Prior to this position she was a Senior Lecturer in the Environment and Planning Program at RMIT University. She holds a BA (Hons) from La Trobe University and a Masters of Urban Planning and a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Robin’s research interests centre on various aspects of urban planning and public policy. In 2009-10 she is directing an AHURI project on the effects that various planning policy changes have had on the types of housing constructed, particularly in new growth areas, in Victoria in the last 20 years.

Other current research projects and recent publications concern the forms of private collective ownership of community assets in master planned estates, the planning for activity and retail centres in growth areas on the urban fringe, a comparison of retail form in the various Australian capital cities and an analytic history of the practice of planning for Melbourne.

Robin has been a member of the Planning Institute of Australia since 1994 and has served as a judge for the Victorian Planning Awards and a Chair of a Visiting Board for planning course accreditation.