Rae Dufty-Jones

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Associate Professor, Western Sydney University Profile Articles Activity

A/Prof. Rae Dufty-Jones is an economic and social geographer and Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University. She is also Vice President of the Geographical Society of New South Wales.

Rae's research interests and expertise include: Australian housing policy and internal migration; regional economic development and infrastructure; and New Immigration Destinations (international migrants settling in rural and regional communities). Her research work has been funded by competitive grants including the Australian Research Council (ARC); the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI); the federal Department of Environment; and Transport for NSW.

Rae's current research projects include: 'Sydney Metro (North West): Evaluating land use, place making and wider economic benefits' and 'Settling well: a longitudinal study of refugees in regional Australia'.

Before joining WSU in 2010, Rae was previous employed as a Lecturer in Geography and Planning at the University of New England, after completing her PhD at the University of New South Wales.

• 2020–present Associate professor, Western Sydney University
• 2013–2020 Senior lecturer, Western Sydney University
• 2010–2012 Lecturer, Western Sydney University
• 2008–2010 Lecturer, University of New England
• 2007–2008 Junior research fellow, University of Tasmania

• 2008  University of New South Wales, PhD - geography
• 2002  University of New South Wales, BA (Hon I) - majors: geography, history, political science, educational psychology

• 2021 'Making space to write 'care'-fully: engaged responses to the institutional politics of research writing', Progress in Human Geography
• 2018 'The career aspirations and expectations of geography doctoral students: establishing academic subjectivities within a shifting landscape', Geographical Research
• 2018 'A historical geography of housing crisis in Australia', Australian Geographer
• 2015 'Governmentalities of mobility: The role of housing in the governance of Australian rural mobilities', Journal of Rural Studies
• 2015 Housing in twenty-first century Australia: people, practices and policies, Ashgate
• 2014 Rural Change in Australia: population, economy, environment, Ashgate
• 2014 'Rural Economies in the“Age of Migration”: Perspectives from OECD Countries', Geography Compass
• 2013 'Planning regional development in Australia: questions of mobility and borders', Australian Planner
• 2012 'Moving Home: Housing studies and the 'mobility turn' in the social sciences', Housing, Theory and Society
• 2011 'Governing the experts: reforming expert governance of rural public housing', Australian Geographer
• 2009 '“At least I don't live in Vegemite Valley”: racism and rural public housing spaces', Australian Geographer
• 2009 'Assembling the space economy: governmentality and economic geography', Geography Compass
• 2008 'Counter-geographies: the campaign against rationalisation of agricultural research stations in NSW', Journal of Rural Studies
• 2007 'Governing through locational choice: the locational preferences of rural public housing tenants in south-western New South Wales, Australia', Housing, Theory and Society

• 2022 Settling well: a longitudinal study of refugees in regional Australia Role: Chief Investigator (2nd) Funding Source: ARC Linkage Project
• 2020 Sydney Metro Northwest: Evaluating land use, place making and wider economic benefits Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Transport for New South Wales
• 2015 Werrington Park Corporate Centre Evaluation Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Department of Environment
• 2012 'Moving Home': the role of housing policy in responding to and promoting mobility Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
• 2011 Ethnic discrimination in the private rental housing market Role: Chief Investigator (4th) Funding Source: ARC Discovery Project
• 2009 Home and away?: Defining and conceptualising rural youth migration in Australia Role: Chief Investigator (4th) Funding Source: ARC Discovery Project

• Institute of Australian Geographers
• Geographical Society of NSW

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