Ms Charmaine Thredgold

Charmaine's PhD is part of the ARC Housing Energy Efficiency Transition research project. Her research is "Radical housing renovators and rule makers: rebellious retrofitting to achieve low-carbon urban transformation in Australian cities". She is supervised by Professor Emma Baker and Dr Lyrian Daniel. Publications are available through ORCID id.

Previously she was employed with the University of SA Business School and was the Research Fellow and project manager on an AHURI project on an effective homelessness services system; a project for the DSS reviewing tenancy laws as they relate to family and domestic violence; and the ARC Linkage project The Rise of the Consumer: Engagement of older people with Consumer Directed Care.

Prior to joining the University of South Australia, Charmaine took leave without pay from her position as Principal Planner in the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure to work at The University of Adelaide in the Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning (CHURP). Charmaine’s main role with CHURP was to project manage Theme 6.1, Social profile of the Eyre Peninsula and west coast region: literature review and community analysis of the Great Australian Bight Research Program. She was lead author for the social profile and co-author of several other reports. Charmaine's research with CHURP also included: innovative case studies of recent homelessness initiatives; public housing transfers to community housing organisations; second homes; and the Kilburn and Blair Athol urban renewal project.

Charmaine has extensive research and practical experience in urban and regional planning; social analysis; urban design; structure planning; sustainable development; community engagement; developing urban and regional strategy and policy; and project management. Charmaine has 12 years' experience in strategic policy in the South Australian Government, including co-author of Prosperity through People: A Population Policy for SA (2004), draft Directions for creating a new Plan for Greater Adelaide (2009) and various volumes of the South Australian Planning Strategy.