Dr Kate Shaw
Grad Dip Urb Pol & Pl (RMIT), MSocSci (RMIT), PhD (Melb)
Research Fellow
Email: kates@unimelb.edu.au
After working in production off-off-Broadway in New York in the mid-1980s, Kate returned to Melbourne to promote independent/alternative arts projects. She was swept into the local St Kilda politics of the time and spent the next ten years juggling theatre and festival publicity with community work and campaigns for cultural difference and equity in the city. She received a post-graduate diploma in Urban Policy and Planning in 1992, and in 1996 began teaching into the urban planning program at RMIT while completing a Masters by Research degree. In 2000 Kate came to the University of Melbourne to do a PhD on the politics of protecting place, and taught in Planning Law and Urban Design Theory throughout her candidature. She is a well-known commentator on issues relating to gentrification, affordable housing and cultural diversity, and gives planning and policy advice to various inner-city councils and local campaigns such as Fair Go 4 Live Music and the Esplanade Alliance.
Research Interests
'creative cities', cultural diversity and social equity
urban regeneration and gentrification
student housing and place-making
Awards Received
- Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) prize for best paper in the planning field published in 2005 (awarded in 2006)
- Stegley Foundation award for social justice in postgraduate research (2001)
Recent Publications
Books
Long, C., Shaw, K. and Merlo C. (2006) Sub Urban Fantasies: Melbourne Unmasked, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Chapters in books
Shaw, K. (2005) Local limits to gentrification: implications for a new urban policy, in R. Atkinson and G. Bridge (eds) Gentrification in a global context: the new urban colonialism, London: Routledge.
Shaw, K. (2005) Gentrification and the inner-city blues, in C. Long and K. Shaw (eds) Sub Urban Fantasies: Melbourne Unmasked, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Refereed Journal articles
Shaw, K. (2005) The place of alternative culture and the politics of its protection in Berlin, Amsterdam and Melbourne, Planning Theory and Practice, vol. 6, no. 2, pp.151-170.
Shaw, K. (2005) Don't try this at home (comment on a paper by Wendy Sarkissian, 'Stories in a Park: giving voice to the voiceless in Eagleby, Australia'), Interface, Planning Theory and Practice, vol. 6, no. 1, pp.126-128.
Shaw, K. (2003) Discretion vs Regulation and the sorry case of Melbourne City Plan 2010, Urban Policy and Research, vol. 21, no. 4, pp.441-447.
Shaw, K. (2002) Culture, economics and evolution in gentrification, Just Policy, no. 28, pp.42-50.
Industry journal articles
Fincher, R. and Shaw, K. (2006) Transnational and temporary: place-making, students and community in central Melbourne, Planning News, vol. 32, no. 3, April, pp.12-13
Shaw, K. (2006) The trouble with the Creative Class, Planning News, vol. 32, no. 1, pp.4-5.
Shaw, K. (2004) Challenges of gentrification, Australian Local Government Manager, vol. 37, no. 5, pp.18-19.
Shaw, K. (2004) Gentrification (an invitation to discussion), Victorian Local Governance Association Bulletin, February, p.10.
Shaw, K. (2003) Planning for the Espy: policies, politics and deals, Planning News, vol. 29, no. 10, pp.28-29.
Shaw, K. (2002) Time to act on affordable housing, Planning News, vol. 28, no. 10, pp.7-8.
Chapters in collections
Shaw, K. (2004) Cultural life—local cultures, in M. Lewis (ed) Inner urban conservation and redevelopment, an independent panel report on a proposal for Smith Street, Collingwood, under Melbourne 2030, Melbourne: Lewis
Conference papers
Shaw, K. and Fincher, R. (2006) Towards university-government partnerships in place, paper to Centre for Public Policy conference: Governments and Communities in Partnership, Melbourne Park, September.
Fincher, R. and Shaw, K. (2006) Encounter by Transnational and Temporary Residents in place, paper for International Geographic Union meeting, Brisbane, July.
Shaw, K. (2006) Design for sustainable cities and communities, Creative Cities Creative Tourism Melbourne Conversations Series, Federation Square, Melbourne, 20-21 Feb.
Shaw, K. (2003) Local limits to gentrification: implications for a new urban policy, City of Port Phillip gentrification forum: Understanding gentrification, St Kilda, November.
Shaw, K. (2003) The cultural heritage of alternative subcultures and the politics of preservation in Berlin, Amsterdam and Melbourne, conference of the International Network for Urban Research andAction: Border City/Divided City, Trebnitz, Germany, June.