Jago Dodson

Jago Dodson is Professor of Urban Policy at RMIT University and works as the Director of the Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform in the Research and Innovation Portfolio. 

Jago has an extensive record of research into urban problems addressing a wide array of housing, transport, urban planning, urban policy, governance, infrastructure, energy, and spatial labour market questions, often with a suburban dimension. Jago's research record includes more than 140 publications including two authored books, two edited collections, conference papers, journal articles, working papers, opinion articles, and external reports. He has been awarded research funding from major scientific bodies including the Australian Research Council Discovery, Linkage and LIEF schemes, the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Natural Hazards Research Australia, the iMove Collaborative Research Centre, the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network, and the European Union Horizon 2020 scheme.

Jago has led major urban research concentrations in Australian universities, including Director of the Urban Research Program at Griffith University (2011-2014), and Director of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University (2014-2023).

Among various external roles, Jago has served as convener of the Australasian Cities Research Network (2012-2016) and was coordinating editor for the Australian Academy of Science Decadal Plan for Urban Systems Transformation (2019-2024). He convened the 2017 Australasian Housing Researchers Conference and co-convened the 2021 National Conference on the State of Australian Cities.

Jago has served as an expert assessor to major scientific bodies, including the Australian Research Council, the New Zealand National Science Challenges and Endeavour programs, the United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council, and the US National Science Foundation.

Jago has collaborated with international urban policy agencies including UN Habitat, the OECD, Cities Alliance and Vietnam Australia Centre on the development of national-level urban policies across the globe. He has contributed extensively to scholarly, policy and public debates on urban problems in Australia and internationally, with more than 300 instances of media reportage, including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the Australian and the ABC.

Jago welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD scholars on topics relevant to his expertise.