Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Kristian is an urban and economic geographer. His research interests centre on issues of urban governance, housing and planning. Kristian's research has explored social housing provision in New South Wales, in particular residents' experience of their neighbourhood and the evaluation of policies tied to urban renewal and community regeneration. Kristian has been involved in a number of projects conducted by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) and authored numerous planning and housing studies for state government departments and local councils.
Before moving to Macquarie University Kristian worked as a Research Fellow at the City Futures Research Centre, UNSW, and the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, The University of Newcastle.
Research interests
Kristian is currently undertaking research projects:
- Urban regeneration planning and governance - examining the complex ways urban regeneration projects are planned, funded and managed across different urban contexts.
- Formal and everyday assemblages of urban regeneration - exploring urban regeneration and renewal at the city-wide scale and tracing the complex assemblages which mediate urban change.
- Impacts of planning reform on development and assessment - tracing the capacity of state governments, local councils and developers to enact development in the context of changing planning regulations
- Social/affordable housing construction and management - explore residents' concerns over new social/affordable housing construction, the planning regulations directing development and the viability of new management structures (such as Community Housing).
- Resident resistance to urban consolidation - tracing the role and impact of community groups in challenging strategic planning and local planning decisions which promote densification.
Current ARC projects:
- Universities as entrepreneurial urban actors: how universities shape Australian cities, ARC Future Fellowship (FT210100357)
- Reassembling the city: understanding resident-led collective property sales, ARC Discovery Project (DP200101744)
Past ARC projects:
- Building a more sustainable city: official and everyday practices of regeneration, ARC Discovery Project (DP130100582)
Research student supervision
Completed HDR students:
- Wayne Williamson – Community and government planning authority use of social media in planning practice: A mixed methods analysis from Sydney (PhD)
- Zahra Nasreen - Shared room housing in Sydney: An exploration of housing informality, platform technology and home making (PhD)
- Mahdiyeh Bagherzadeh Khosroushahi – Neoliberal Inspired Infrastructure Governance and Planning Reform in NSW (PhD)
- Lois Towart - The Geographic Supply Drivers of Australian Retirement Communities (PhD)
- David Fingland – Manufacturing certainty: the purpose of planning in New South Wales? (PhD)
- Pamela Box – What does ‘Shared Responsibility’ mean for flood risk management in Australia? (PhD)
- Byambadorj Tseregmaa – Urban transition in informal settlements in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (PhD)
- Carolyn Thompson – Master-planned estates and the politics of urban revitalisation (PhD)
- Kerstin Hermes – A comparative study of community linkages (PhD)
- Khandakar Al Fair Uddin – Post-politics and Council Amalgamation in NSW (MRes)
- Anthonia Soligbo - Home Making and Sense of Community in Sydney Apartments (MRes)
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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ARC ALF SAC 22: Appointment as a Member of the Australian Laureate Fellowships Selection Advisory Committee (Ruming)
1/11/22 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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DP200101744: Reassembling the city: understanding resident-led collective property sales
Ruming, K., Pinnegar, S., Easthope, H. & Crommelin, L.
20/03/20 → 19/03/23
Project: Research
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MQEPS: Vertical Villages: Community, Place and Urban Density Pilot
Williams, M., Mitchell, E., Wise, A. & Ruming, K.
30/11/19 → 30/11/20
Project: Other
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The geographies of community food provisioning in Metropolitan Sydney
1/01/19 → 31/12/20
Project: Other
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The Australian Sustainable Household (ASH) database
Ruming, K., Houston, D., Fuller, S. & Williams, M.
1/01/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Actor network theory
Ruming, K., 2023, Concise encyclopedia of human geography. Lees, L. & Demeritt, D. (eds.). Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 7-11 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary/reference book › peer-review
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Growing, consuming, and wasting/disposing: a study of the sustainable food practices of Australian households
Williams, M. J., Ruming, K., Lee, D. J. & McCarthy, M., 25 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Local Environment. 17 p., 2249504.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Planning reform during COVID-19: stakeholder perspectives on reform initiatives in New South Wales and Western Australia
Ruming, K., Mouat, C. M. & Morel-EdnieBrown, F., 2023, In: Urban Policy and Research. 41, 1, p. 98-116 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Universities and metropolitan strategic planning: the case of Sydney, Australia
Ruming, K., 26 Mar 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Care, urban regeneration and forced tenant relocation: the case of Ivanhoe social housing estate, Sydney
Ruming, K. & Melo Zurita, M. D. L., 28 May 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Housing Studies. 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Smart Cities: will they be smart for people?
David Tickle (Speaker), Margie Borschke (Speaker) & Kristian Ruming (Speaker)
6 Jun 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Geographical Research (Journal)
Kristian Ruming (Member of editorial board)
2018 → …Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work