Louise Dorignon

Dr. Louise Dorignon

Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Collaborative projects
  • Industry Projects
  • Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
  • Media enquiries
  • Membership of an advisory committee
  • Mentoring (short-term)
  • Technical support

About

Dr Louise Dorignon specialises in urban geography and housing studies. Her research focuses on contemporary building practices toward more sustainable and affordable homes, and on everyday experiences of post-carbon housing.

Louise holds a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, currently investigating the implications of a shift to offsite construction for urban apartment housing delivery and consumption using a critical social science approach. Through her recently awarded ARC DECRA project (2025–2028), she expects to document perceptions and attitudes towards housing built offsite, and to generate new knowledge in urban geography, housing and built environment research. She regularly collaborates with various stakeholders, including material manufacturers and builders, architects, developers, policymakers, regulators, and householders in Australia, the EU, the UK, and North America.

Research fields

  • 330410 Urban analysis and development
  • 4406 Human geography
  • 33 Built environment and design

UN sustainable development goals

  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  • 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 13 Climate Action
  • 15 Life on Land
  • 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Academic positions

  • Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • RMIT University
  • Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Jul 2023 – Present
  • Research Fellow, ARC Linkage HOME Project
  • RMIT University
  • Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Jul 2019 – Jul 2023
  • Research Assistant, Social and Cultural Geography, T&F journal
  • University of Melbourne
  • School of Geography
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2019 – 2019
  • French Lectrice, Title A Fellow
  • University of Cambridge
  • Trinity College
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Sep 2013 – Jun 2014

Supervisor projects

  • Resilience, Community and Displacement: A Study of Roma Refugees from Ukraine in Poland.
  • 6 Feb 2023
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.