Ruth Fincher is Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne, where previously she was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (2003-2006) and Professor of Urban Planning (1997-2006). She was Director of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne in the mid 1990s, and has held the positions of Assistant Professor of Geography at McGill University (Canada), and McMaster University (Canada). In the early 1990s, she worked as Research Manager in the Federal Government’s Bureau of Immigration Research.
Professor Fincher holds a PhD in Geography from Clark University, a Master of Arts from McMaster University and a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2002.
With research and teaching interests in the urban outcomes of immigration policy and multiculturalism, diversity and difference in cities, gender issues, inequality and locational disadvantage, Professor Fincher is widely published internationally. Her books include Creating Unequal Futures? Rethinking Inequality, Poverty and Disadvantage (Allen and Unwin, 2001) co-edited with Peter Saunders, Australian Poverty: Then and Now (Melbourne University Press, 1998) co-edited with John Nieuwenhuysen, and Cities of Difference (Guilford Press, New York, 1998) co-edited with Jane Jacobs. A new book, Planning Cities for Diversity, co-authored with Kurt Iveson (Palgrave), should appear at the end of 2007.
Research Interests
- urban outcomes of immigration policy and multiculturalism
- difference and diversity in urban environments
- gender issues, inequality and locational disadvantage
- urban planning
Find out more about Professor Ruth Fincher by viewing her Melbourne University profile.
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