Bill Randolph Email and Phone Number

Bill joined the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales in August 2004 as Professor and Director of the City Futures Research Centre. He was Associate Dean Research between 2009 and 2013. He is a past Director of the UNSW/UWS AHURI Research Centre and Director of the Urban Frontiers Program at the University of Western Sydney. At UNSW he leads a research team specializing in housing policy, housing markets, high density housing, social inclusion, accessible and healthy built environments, urban renewal, urban sustainability and metropolitan planning policy issues. Since joining UNSW BE in 2004, Randolph has developed City Futures into an internationally recognized research centre with 20 staff and 11 Adjunct staff. The Centre generated $2.0m in income in 2016Bill has 35 years experience as a researcher on housing and urban policy issues in the academic, government, non-government and private sectors. Before moving to Australia in 1998, Bill spent five years in market research and consultancy based in London, UK, with a primary focus on housing policy and urban planning research for the central and local government sectors. He had previously spent eight years as Head of Research at the National Housing Federation in London, the national peak body for non-profit affordable housing landlords, where he led the development of national research into affordable housing provision. Bill has also worked as a research fellow at the Open University, and the UK Department of the Environment and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.