Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie

Executive Director
Housing and Urban Research Institute of Western Australia

Level 2 Building 100
Bentley Campus
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987
Perth WA 6845
Australia

Telephone: +61 8 9266 1111
Fax: +61 8 9266 3658
Email: f.mckenzie@curtin.edu.au

Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie is the Director of the Housing and Urban Research Institute of Western Australia (HURIWA), a joint venture between Curtin University of Technology and Murdoch University. She is also the Director of Research at the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University of Technology.

Professor McKenzie was educated in Western Australia and the United States and has a varied academic background including a PhD in political geography, researching the effects of demographic and economic change on rural communities in Western Australia. She has extensive experience in population and socio-economic change, regional economic development and analysis of regional and urban social indicators. Professor McKenzie has published widely and undertaken work for the corporate and small business sectors as well as all three tiers of government, both nationally and in Western Australia. This has included a research project for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, reviewing how women in rural, regional and remote regions are statistically represented and how they could be better portrayed through the more accurate capturing of qualitative data to convey their value, and contribution to the vibrancy of Australian life.

Professor McKenzie is currently working on several projects, including the provision of housing in the Pilbara, housing affordability in sea change and tree change communities and housing around transport oriented development. She is a member of an academic supervisory team overseeing an Australian Research Council project understanding the impact of gender diversity on regional boards. She was appointed to a three member panel investigating the sustainability of local government in Western Australia early in 2006.

For further details, please download Professor McKenzie's cv.