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PhD scholarship: Community engagement and Australia’s post-political urban planning systems, Adelaide University, Australia

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Course PHD Australia Oceania

Expressions of interest (EOI) are invited for a PhD position on ‘Community engagement and Australia’s post-political urban planning systems’. The EOI process will close on 30 September 2026. For the full application subsequently, we will be asking for a research proposal (and there will be flexibility and room for innovation by the applicant on the approach to be taken and the countries and cities in which the research is proposed to be conducted).

Applicants are invited to submit their EOI through an online form here: https://adelaide.edu.au/research/research-degrees/research-projects/

Please search the PhD project database for “SRTSR0302 Community engagement and Australia’s post-political urban planning systems'” for a short description.

SRTSR0302: Community engagement and Australia’s post-political urban planning systems
In recent decades, major state planning reforms were undertaken across Australia to remove perceived ‘planning barriers’ to economic development, which also reduced opportunities for community engagement and participation in urban planning processes.
The effects have been described as post-political urban planning: democratic legitimacy in urban planning is weakened because governments are replacing open public contestation with curated consultation that treats deeply political choices as administrative tasks. In response, communities are increasingly expressing their objections to proposed developments more antagonistically through demonstrations or NIMBY activism, thereby possibly contributing to even more unequal outcomes.
This PhD project will analyse current approaches to community engagement and public participation in Australia’s planning systems and seek to identify strategies for enabling communities to play a constructive role in shaping in urban planning outcomes.

The form to submit the EOI is available here: https://app.smartsheet.au/b/form/019eedeef91978fdbc2b67718479eac6

Supervisor: Professor Stefanie Dühr

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