Research awards

The Federal Minister's Award for Early Career Housing Researcher recognises excellence in researchers beginning their careers in housing and urban research.

The award is sponsored by AHURI and awarded at the annual Australasian Housing Researchers Conference with the winner receiving an engraved award and a $500 cash prize.

Dr Flanagan’s research, ‘Social housing as infrastructure: concepts, perspectives, critique’, considered whether reconceptualising social housing as a form of essential infrastructure could attract additional investment into the social housing system ...—AHURI News 11 February 2019.

Past recipients include:

• 2019 – Dr Kathleen Flanagan, University of Tasmania
• 2017 – Dr Lyrian Daniel, University of Adelaide
• 2016 – Dr Victoria Cornell, University of Adelaide
• 2015 – Dr Dallas Rogers, University of Western Sydney
• 2012 – Ms Deb Batterham, Hanover Welfare Services
• 2010 – Dr Lucy Groenhart, RMIT University
• 2009 – Dr Louise Crabtree, University of Western Sydney
• 2007 – Dr Tony Gilmour, The University of Sydney
• 2006 – Dr Emma Baker, The University of Adelaide

Known as The Berry, the Professor Mike Berry Award for Excellence in Housing Research is an annual award for the best piece of new housing and urban research.

Presented yearly at the Australasian Housing Researchers Conference, winners receive an engraved award and a $1,000 cash prize, sponsored by Housing Choices Australia.

Respected academic Professor Rachel Ong ViforJ, Professor of Economics at the School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University, was awarded the Professor Mike Berry Award for Excellence in Housing Research.—AHURI News 11 February 2019.

Background

Created in 2015 by Housing Choices Australia and AHURI, the Professor Mike Berry Award for Excellence in Housing Research honours the outstanding contribution made by Professor Mike Berry to the affordable housing sector in Australia, and to Housing Choices Australia and AHURI in particular.

Throughout his career Professor Mike Berry has made an exceptional contribution to the field of housing research as a former Executive Director of AHURI, a researcher of international repute and as Director of the AHURI Research Centre—RMIT University. He has published a vast body of research focussing on urban development processes, urban social theory, economics and public policy, and housing markets. He was a long-term member of the Housing Choices Australia Board, including as Chair in 2013, and was Executive Director of AHURI from 1993 to 1999. He is currently Emeritus Professor in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University.

The award encourages future generations of researchers to strive for the same levels of excellence Professor Berry has achieved throughout his illustrious career, and it complements a range of other research capacity building activities AHURI undertakes to develop the skills and resources of the housing research community in Australia.

Past recipients include:

• 2019 – Professor Rachel Ong ViforJ, Curtin Business School
• 2017 – Associate Professor Daphne Habibis, University of Tasmania
• 2016 – Prof Kath Hulse, Swinburne University
• 2015 – Dr Rebecca Bentley, The University of Melbourne
• 2015 – Associate Professor Emma Baker, The University of Adelaide