Maryann Wulff
Education
PhD (1975)(Sociology), Brown University, Providence RI, USA, MA (1971) (Sociology), Brown University, BA (1969) Regis College, Boston, Massachusetts
Current position
Associate Professor, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University and Deputy Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Swinburne-Monash Research Centre.
Expertise
- Social and demographic analysis
- housing and households
- urban and regional analysis
- social and housing policy
Current research projects (2003-2004)
- Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements, The impact of immigration on global city housing demand: international perspectives
- Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Research Grant,Trends in Australian non-metropolitan housing markets, 1991-2001
- Australian Research Council (ARC ) Discovery Project Grant, Supply-side dynamics in the private rental market
- Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Research Grant,Changes in the supply of and need for low rent dwellings in the private rental market
- AHURI Research Grant, Evictions and Housing Management: Toward more effective strategies
- Victorian Government, Department of Sustainability and Environment, The housing choices and preferences of small households: implications for medium density housing.
Background Current position:
- Associate Professor, School of Geography and Environmental Science; Monash University, Melbourne Australia, 1999 on
Previous positions:
- Senior Research Fellow and Housing Research Manager, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, (1995-98) Melbourne, Australia
- Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban and Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology (1989-95), Melbourne, Australia
- Fellow, Australian Institute of Family Studies (1987-89), Melbourne Australia
- Senior Lecturer (Sociology), Department of Social and Political Studies, Swinburne University of Technology, (1979-87), Melbourne, Australia
- Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Social and Political Studies, Swinburne Institute of Technology (1978-79), Melbourne ,Australia
- Research Fellow, National Research Institute of Gerontology (now the National Ageing and Research Institute, affiliated with the University of Melbourne) (1977 Sept-Dec)
- Assistant Professor, Sociology and Housing, Cornell University, Department of Consumer Economics and Housing, Ithaca, New York (1973-77)
Selected recent publications
- Wulff, M. and Low, N. 2004 (forthcoming), Did the houses save the world? International perspectives, Urban Policy and Research, Vol 22, No. 1.
- Wulff, M. and Yates, J. (with T. Burke), Low Rent Housing in Australia: How has it changed, who does it work for and who does it fail?, Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services, March 2001.
- Fincher, R. and Wulff, M., Moving in and Out of Disadvantage: Population Mobility and Australian Places, pp. 158-93 in R. Fincher and P. Saunders (Eds.), Creating Unequal Futures: Rethinking Poverty, Inequality and Disadvantage, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2001.
- Wulff, M., Changing families, changing households: Australian housing assistance policy, pp. 37-45 in L. Hancock, B. Howe, and A. ODonnell (Eds.)Reshaping Australian Social Policy: Changes in Work, Welfare and Families, Growth, 48, Committee for the Economic Development of Australia, November 2000.
- Yates, J. and Wulff, M., W(h)ither low cost private rental housing?,Urban Policy and Research, Vol. 18, No. 1, March, pp. 45-64, 2000.
- Wulff, M., Growth and change in one-person households: Implications for the housing market, Urban Policy and Research, vol. 19, n0. 4, pp. 467-489. 2001.
- Wulff, M., Out with the old and in with the new?: Housings role in the new social settlement, pp. 57-65 in L. Hancock, B. Howe, M. Frere and A. ODonnell (Eds.), Future Directions in Australian Social Policy: New Ways of Preventing Risk, Growth, 49, Committee for the Economic Development of Australia, December, 2001.
- Baum, S. and Wulff, M. Housing Aspirations of Australian Households, Final Report, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, February 2003.
Professional Memberships
- American Sociological Association
- Population Association of America
- Population Association of Australia
- European Network of Housing Researchers
- Asia Pacific Network of Housing Reseachers
- Editorial Board of Urban Policy and Research
Address
- Room No: S105, Menzies Building
- Telephone Number: +61 3 990 52930
- Maryann.Wulff@arts.monash.edu.au