Rate My Professor Kristian Ruming

Professor Kristian Ruming is an urban and economic geographer and Professor in the School of Communication, Society and Culture within Macquarie University's Faculty of Arts. He is the Director of the Macquarie University Housing and Urban Research Centre. With 25 years of experience, his research interests centre on urban governance, housing, and planning. Specific areas encompass urban regeneration planning and governance, formal and everyday assemblages of urban regeneration, impacts of planning reform on development and assessment, social housing construction and management, resident resistance to urban consolidation, affordable and student housing provision, and university property development. Ruming earned his PhD in Geography from the University of Newcastle in 2007.

Before joining Macquarie University, Ruming served as a Research Fellow at the City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales, and the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle. He has been Chief Investigator on ARC Discovery Projects examining urban regeneration, land assembly, resident-led collective property sales, and student housing provision. Ruming holds an ARC Future Fellowship (FT210100357) exploring university land and property development. Additional honors include former membership in the ARC College of Experts and appointment to the Australian Laureate Fellowships Selection Advisory Committee (2022-2023). He is a member of the editorial board of Geographical Research journal and has produced numerous planning and housing studies for state government departments and local councils. Key publications include Urban Regeneration in Australia: Policies, Processes and Projects of Contemporary Urban Change (2018, editor), Australian Planning System Reform (2014, with Nicole Gurran), Calculating the System-wide Supply Impacts of Social Housing Estate Renewal: New Measures and Methods (2025, with Alistair Sisson), Delivering Suburban Densification: Diverse Resident Groups and Strategies of Support and Resistance (2025), and Design Governance and the University: Assessing Design Excellence of University Developments (2025). His research, with over 1,700 citations, significantly influences Australian urban planning policy and academic discourse.