Dr Jago Dodson

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PhD (Urban Policy and Planning) (Melb), MRRP (Otago), BA (Social Anthropology) (Otago)

Senior Research Fellow, Urban Research Program

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Research Expertise

  • Social housing and housing markets
  • Social dimensions of transport planning
  • Urban governance and policy making
  • Urban-health relationships
  • Urban economies and labour markets

Biography

Dr Dodson has held research intensive positions since finishing his PhD in 2002 and was promoted to Senior Research Fellow within the URP at Griffith University in 2008. Dr Dodson's work has addressed interesting and unique urban social scientific research problems and has synthesised insights across urban planning, transport, geography and housing studies. In particular his latter work has produced considerable insight into urban household sector stressors in Australian cities, including household exposure to housing debt and higher oil prices. Dr Dodson has a research record of over 50 publications, which includes one sole author and one joint author book, 11 refereed journal articles and 12 refereed conference papers. Through his work he has contributed extensively to scholarly, policy and public debates on urban matters in Australia and internationally. Dr Dodson has also provided research-based consulting advice to governments.

Publications

Books

  • Dodson, J. (2007) Government, discourse and housing, Aldershot, Ashgate.
  • Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2008) Shocking the suburbs: Oil vulnerability in the Australian city, Sydney, UNSW Press.

Book chapters

  • Dodson, J. and Gleeson, B. (forthcoming April 2009) 'Human geography and urban planning', in Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N (eds) Encyclopedia of human geography, Oxford, UK, Elsevier. (accepted February 2008)
  • Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2008) 'Energy security, oil vulnerability and the future of Australia's cities', in Newton, P. (ed) Transitions: Pathways towards sustainable urban development in Australia, Melbourne, CSIRO Publishing.
  • Dodson, J. (2007) 'Transport disadvantage and Australian urban planning in historical perspective: The role of urban form and structure in shaping household accessibility', in Currie, G., Stanley, J. and Stanley, J. (eds) No way to go: Transport and social disadvantage in Australian communities, Melbourne, Monash e-Press.
  • Sipe, N., Buchanan, N., and Dodson, J. (2006) 'Children in the urban environment: A review of research', in Gleeson, B. and Sipe, N. (eds) Creating child friendly cities, Abingdon, UK, Routledge.
  • Dodson, J. (2003) 'Visions for 2030: Housing, transport and Labor's metropolitan strategy', in Hayward, D. and Ewer, P. (eds) Visions for Victoria: A progressive blueprint for public sector renewal in Victoria, Melbourne, Vulgar Press.

Journal articles

  • Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2008) 'Shocking the suburbs: Urban location, home ownership and oil vulnerability in the Australian city', Housing Studies, 23(3): 377-401.
  • Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2008) 'Planned household risk: Mortgage and oil vulnerability in Australian cities', Australian Planner, 45(1): 38-47.
  • Dodson, J., Gleeson, B., Evans, R. and Sipe, N. (2007) 'Investigating the social dimensions of transport disadvantage II: From concepts to methods through an empirical case study', Urban Policy and Research, 25(1): 63-89.
  • Mees, P. and Dodson, J. (2007) 'Backtracking Auckland?: Technical and communicative reason in metropolitan transport planning', International Planning Studies, 12(2): 35-52.
  • Yigitcanlar, T., Dodson, J., Gleeson, B. and Sipe, N. (2007) 'Sustainable Australia: Containing travel in master planned estates', Urban Policy and Research, 25(1): 129-149.
  • Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2007) 'Oil vulnerability in the Australian city: Assessing socio-economic risks from higher urban fuel prices', Urban Studies, 44(1): 37-62.
  • Dodson, J. (2006) 'The "Roll" of the State: Government, neoliberalism and housing assistance in four advanced economies', Housing Theory and Society, 23(4): 224-243.
  • Dodson, J., Buchanan, N., Gleeson, B. and Sipe, N. (2006) 'Investigating the social dimensions of transport disadvantage I: Towards new concepts and methods', Urban Policy and Research, 24(4): 433–453.
  • Dodson, J. and Berry, M. (2004) 'The economic 'revolution' in Melbourne's west', Urban Policy and Research, 22(2): 137-155.
  • Dodson, J. and Mees, P. (2003) 'Realistic sustainability?: Urban transport planning in Wellington, New Zealand', New Zealand Geographer, 59(2): 27-34.
  • Dodson, J. and Gleeson, B. (2003) 'New planning governance for Sydney: Lessons from other contexts', Australian Planner, 40(1): 32-39.

Conference papers

  • Dodson, J. (2008) 'The wrong place at the wrong time: Why the structure of housing markets means urban consolidation can't equitably solve our urban planning challenges', proceedings of the Third Australasian Housing Researchers Conference, 18-20 June 2007, RMIT University, Melbourne.
  • Dodson, J. (2008) 'The Australian suburb as a socio-technical process: Towards a research agenda', proceedings of the Second Australasian Housing Researchers Conference, 20-22 June 2007, Customs House, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
  • Dodson, J. and Gleeson, B. (2007) 'The use of density in Australian planning', proceedings of the Third National Conference on the State of Australian Cities, 28-30 November 2007, Adelaide, Australia.
  • Evans, R., Burke, M. and Dodson, J. (2007) Clothing the emperor?: Transport modelling and decision-making in Australian cities', proceedings of the Third National Conference on the State of Australian Cities, 28-30 November 2007, Adelaide, Australia.
  • Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2006) 'Suburban shocks: Assessing locational vulnerability to rising household fuel and mortgage interest costs', proceedings of the 29th Australasian Transportation Research Forum, 27-29 September 2006, Gold Coast.
  • Dodson, J. (2006) 'The roll of the State? Changing housing policy imagination and practice in four advanced economies', proceedings of the First Australasian Housing Researchers Conference, 19-21 June 2006, South Australian Art Gallery, Adelaide.
  • Dodson, J., Coiacetto, E. and Ellway, C. (2006) 'Corruption in the land development process', proceedings of the Second National Conference on the State of Australian Cities, 30 November - 2 December 2005, Griffith University, Brisbane.
  • Dodson, J., Gleeson, B., Evans, R. and Sipe, N. (2006) 'Transport disadvantage in the Australian metropolis: Towards new concepts and methods', proceedings of the Second National Conference on the State of Australian Cities, 30 November - 2 December 2005, Griffith University, Brisbane.
  • Yigitcanlar, T., Dodson, J., Gleeson, B. and Sipe, N. (2006) 'Sustainable Australia: Containing travel in master planned estates', proceedings of the Second National Conference on the State of Australian Cities, 30 November - 2 December 2005, Griffith University, Brisbane.
  • Dodson, J. (2004) 'Is there a spatial mismatch between employment opportunity and housing affordability in Melbourne?', proceedings of First National Conference on the State of Australian Cities, 1-3 December 2003, Parramatta.

Other publications

  • Dodson, J., Sipe, N. and Evans, R. (2008) 'The VAMPIRE at the polling booth: What influence did higher fuel prices and rising mortgage interest rates have at the 2007 Australian Federal Election?', Research Paper 19, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2008) 'Unsettling suburbia: The new landscape of oil and mortgage vulnerability in Australian cities', Research Paper 17, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Low Choy, D., Sutherland, C., Gleeson, B., Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2008) 'Peri-urban futures and sustainable development', Land and Water Australia Peri-Urban Project Research Monograph 4, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Low Choy, D., Sutherland, C., Scott, S., Rolley, K., Gleeson, B., Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2007) 'Peri-urban case study: South-East Queensland', Land and Water Australia Peri-Urban Project Research Monograph 3, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2007) 'Cracks in the veneer', Griffith Review, Issue 15, January.
  • Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2007) 'Voters and VAMPIREs: The electoral geography of household exposure to rising petrol, mortgage and general price pressures', Australian Review of Public Affairs, September.
  • Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2006) 'Shocking the suburbs: Urban location, household debt and oil vulnerability in the Australian city', Research Paper 8, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Dodson, J. (2006) 'Rolling the State: Government, neo-liberalism and housing assistance in four advanced economies', Research Paper 7, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Dodson, J. and Mees, P. (2006) 'Backtracking Auckland: Bureaucratic rationality and public preferences in transport planning', Issues Paper 5, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Yigitcanlar, T., Dodson, J., Gleeson, B. and Sipe, N. (2005) 'Sustainable Australia: Containing travel in master planned estates', Research Monograph 9, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2005) 'Oil vulnerability in the Australian city', Research Paper 6, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Dodson, J., Mead, E. and Ellway, C. (2005) 'Urban environments and health: Identifying key relationships and policy imperatives', Research Monograph 10, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Dodson, J., Buchanan, N. and Evans, R. (2005) 'Transport disadvantage and social status: A Gold Coast pilot project', Research Monograph 8, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Dodson, J. and Berry, M. (2005) 'Is there a spatial mismatch between housing affordability and employment opportunity in Melbourne?', Research final report for Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne.
  • Dodson, J. (2005) Review of 'A social philosophy of housing', Urban Policy and Research, 23(2): 250-254.
  • Dodson, J., Gleeson, B. and Sipe, N. (2004) 'Transport disadvantage and social status – A review of the literature and methods', Research Monograph 5, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
  • Dodson, J. and Berry, M. (2003) 'Community regeneration in Melbourne's west', Research final report for Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Melbourne.
  • Dodson, J. and Gleeson, B. (2002) 'Regional planning governance: A select review of Australian and international experience', Research Paper 10, Urban Frontiers Program, University of Western Sydney.
  • Mees, P. and Dodson, J. (2002) 'Bypassing sustainability?: Transport history and current policy issues facing Wellington, New Zealand', Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, 8-12 July 2002, Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Dodson, J. (2002) 'The statementality of housing assistance in New Zealand', proceedings of Joint Conference of the New Zealand Geographical Society and the Institute of Australian Geographers, 31 January - 3 February 2002, University of Otago, Dunedin.
  • Mees, P. and Dodson, J. (2002) 'The American heresy: Half a century of transport planning in Auckland, New Zealand', proceedings of Joint Conference of the New Zealand Geographical Society and the Institute of Australian Geographers, 31 January - 3 February 2002, University of Otago, Dunedin.
  • Dodson, J. (2001) 'The order of public housing in New Zealand', Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, 28 February - 5 March 2001, New York.
  • Dodson, J. (2000) Review of 'Redesigning the welfare state in New Zealand', Urban Policy and Research, 18(1): 113-116.
  • Dodson, J. (1999) Review of 'The anthropology of policy', Urban Policy and Research, 17(2): 160-162.
  • Dodson, J. (1998) Review of 'The penguin book of the city', Urban Policy and Research, 16(2): 161-162.

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