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Professor Wood is Director of the AHURI RMIT Research Centre of the Australian
Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI). He previously held positions in the economics departments of Murdoch University (Western Australia), the University of Glasgow and University of Aberdeen (Scotland).
Professor Wood’s main research interests are in urban economics, housing finance and labour economics. He has published widely, and in recent years has authored articles on housing and tax issues in Real Estate Economics and the Journal of Housing Economics. He is currently on the International Editorial Advisory Boards of Urban Studies and Housing Studies. Gavin Wood has consulted to a number of organisations including: the New Zealand Department of Labour, the Office of Fair Trading (Western Australia) and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
In the 1980s Professor Wood authored reports on housing tax expenditures for the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); in 1990-91 he was commissioned to prepare the Australian Federal Government’s National Housing Strategy report on Taxation and Housing.
Current research interests include the project “Housing wealth and welfare: unlocking housing wealth over the life cycle”, funded jointly by the Australian Research Council and the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council under its Linkage International Social Sciences Collaboration Grant programme. The project involves researchers from Durham University (England) and RMIT University.
In 2008 Professor Wood was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence at RMIT University.
Program information: New frontiers for housing policy: education, health, employment
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