Book Chapter
A City Professorial Chair - a research partnership for a resilient City of Melbourne
Sarah Bell, Melanie Lowe, Cathy Oke, Marie Grenfell, David Sweeting, Michele Acuto
Empowering Smart Cities through Community-Centred Public Private Partnerships and Innovations | Institution of Engineering and Technology | Published : 2024
DOI: 10.1049/PBBE006E_ch6
Abstract
The City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation at the University of Melbourne is a research-practice partnership between a university and a central city local government. This unique partnership was formed in 2015 and renewed for a further five years in 2021, currently underpinning a suite of joint research and engagement projects centred around questions of sustainability and resilience. It is a case study in how city-university partnerships can be developed with benefits for a municipality looking to lead with best practice, and for a university wanting to leverage opportunities to conduct policy-relevant research. It stresses the value of co-design and co-investment not on..
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