Dr Ernest Healy
- Tel: +61 3 990 55098
- Fax: +61 3 990 52993
- Email: Ernest.Healy@arts.monash.edu.au
- Room W11.23 - Building 11 (Menzies) Clayton Campus
Dr Ernest Healy is Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Population and Urban Research.
Biography
Dr Healy completed a PhD in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Monash University 1997. His thesis was an analysis of the relationship between Australian economic, foreign affairs, immigration and multicultural policies under successive federal Labor governments 1983 - 1996.
He also holds a Dip Art and Design 1976; Dip Ed, 1978; BA 1986; BEd 1987 (La Trobe); BA Hons 1989.
Research
Dr Healy has contributed to the Centre's research in a number of areas. He is a co-author of a recent study into the consequences of ethnic concentrations on voting outcomes in Melbourne and Sydney and was a key researcher for the AHURI-funded project 'Housing and Community in the Compact City'. Ernest's recent research has focused upon housing market-labour market links in Melbourne, migrant settlement, labour-market change and work force ageing.
Publications
- Birrell, B. & Healy, E. (2005) ' Baby boomer affluence - myth or reality?' , Just Policy, no. 37, September 2005
- Birrell, B., O'Connor, K., Rapson, V. and Healy, E. (2005) Melbourne 2030 - Planning rhetoric versus urban reality, Melbourne, Monash University ePress
- Birrell, B., Healy, E. & Allan, L. (2005) ' Labor's shrinking constituency', People and Place, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 50-67
- O'Connor, K. and Healy, E., 'Rethinking Suburban Development in Australia: A Melbourne Case Study', special issue of 'European Planning Studies', Vol.12, Issue 1, p. 27, Jan 2004
- Wulff, M., Healy E. and Reynolds, M. (2004), 'Why don't small households live in small dwellings? - disentangling a planning dilemma', People and Place, vol. 12 no. 1, pp. 58-70
- Birrell, B. and Healy, E. (2003) 'Migration and the housing affordability crisis', People and Place, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 43-55
- Healy, E. and Birrell, B. (2003) 'Metropolis divided: the dynamic of spatial inequality and migrant settlement in Sydney', People and Place, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 65-85