Associate Professor Andrea Sharam is the RMIT-AHURI Research Centre Director.
Located within the School of Property, Construction & Project Management, she is a national housing expert and researcher with an interest in:
market-based apartment development
non-market housing models (such as land trusts, cooperatives, non-profit housing and community housing)
social and affordable housing
housing construction
matching in housing markets.
She also has an interest in Property in the Not-For-Profit Sector.
Dr Sharam worked in the not-for-profit sector prior to joining academia. She worked in the housing, homelessness and community legal sectors. For four years (2004-2008) she was an elected councillor at the City of Moreland where she held positions relating to city development, planning & housing.
Dr Sharam teaches Masters Research Design & Methods (BUSM4420) and Property Industry Project (capstone) (OMGT2280) courses
houisng; Urban and Regional Planning, Policy and Administration, Public Health and Health Services, Economic Theory
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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.