Dallas Rogers

Dallas Rogers

Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, Design and Planning
University of Sydney

Dallas is an urban geographer with a broad interest in housing, land, real estate and urban development. He writes about the colonial histories of land claiming, public housing, foreign real estate investment, the politics of urban development, participatory planning, platform real estate, and more. His work involves working closely with people and institutions on collaborative research projects. His research is funded by key government and non-government funders.

Dallas is an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Housing Policy. He served as the Associate Dean of Student Life and Program Director of the Master of Urbanism in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. He was a convener of the Institute of Australian Geographers Urban Studies Group.

Dallas is a practising radio maker and he has written well over 50 opinion pieces for The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald and The Conversation. He produces radio features for ABC Radio National and receives funding from key media organisations in Australia for his radio work. He writes about podcasting as a research methodology and is the founder of City Road Podcast and the Housing Journal Podcast, amongst others radio projects.

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Inclusive and workplace acceptance of refugees
Partnering for refugee employment

When considering their talent pipelines, few companies think outside-of-the-box. Most refugees flourish in the workplace, and so do the businesses that hire them.

SDG 16
Institutional investors demand a more sustainable capitalism

Honey gathering is a solitary job in Indigenous communities. The collector then shares the honey with their community but refrains from joining in the honey feast themself. The idea is that the gathering is not about their gratification, it’s about their contribution to the collective.  

SDG15 Bushfires
Optimisation model as a guide to burning forests to save forests

Setting fire to parts of a forest to save it might seem counterintuitive to urban communities. There is no equivalent of torching a few streets to protect a suburb. However, amongst First Nations people in Australia, hazard reduction burning is a well-established practice.

SDG13 - coal mining
Net zero now – it’s the economy AND the planet

In Australia, as elsewhere, the climate wars have focused on the climate versus jobs dichotomy. Yet while Australia remains highly dependent on fossil fuel extraction for its national economic prosperity it has also become increasingly unequal in its distribution of that wealth.