WHAT IS AURIN?
AURIN is crucial infrastructure for researchers, government and industry, accelerating research into our towns, cities and communities. We provide the data and tools to allow you to make evidence-based decisions quickly and confidently, and we can help you get in touch with world leading urban experts right here in Australia.
INFORMATION FOR RESEARCHERS & STUDENTS
AURIN is a game-changing academic resource, providing access to thousands of datasets and analytical tools to empower your research, teaching and learning into all aspects of Australia’s towns and cities.
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INFORMATION FOR GOVERNMENT
AURIN provides a unique opportunity for all levels of government to quickly access the data and analysis needed for evidence-based decision- and policy-making, and provides the ideal means for your department or authority to release data to wider research community
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INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS & START-UPS
AURIN provides a comprehensive suite of datasets for and visualisation tools to private industry and individuals, super-charging innovation for small, medium and large businesses, and empowering citizen-centred smart cities and towns.
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Housing Affordability and Housing Stress
Housing affordability in Australia has become a critical concern for young would-be homeowners and policy-makers alike. It has been the focus of a large body of research in Australia, and as house prices increase rapidly, has increasingly become a contentious political concern.
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Emergency Department Admissions
The rate per capita of preventable paediatric presentations to hospital emergency departments (EDs) has risen steeply over the past 12 years, resulting in significant policy and resourcing implications, both in Australia and overseas. In Melbourne, there is concern that already overburdened paediatric emergency services will not be able to meet the needs of the expanding paediatric population, particularly in the north-western growth corridor. creasingly become a contentious political concern.
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Teaching Urban Analysis
Urban Planning Research is an undergraduate course delivered to planning students at RMIT. The course is designed to develop an in-depth understanding of applied social research skills specific to the discipline of urban planning. Students who take the course develop the research skills needed to implement a range of common methods of data collection and analysis in urban and regional planning.
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HELP DOCUMENTS & FORMS
Access our comprehensive catalogue of help documentation and quick reference tutorials showing you how to use every component the AURIN workbench to support your research and policy making. We also have additional resources explaining spatial concepts, principles of statistics, and other software tools.
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AURIN DATA
AURIN comprises the largest single resource of thousands of datasets relating to Australia’s towns and cities. Browse our extensive data catalogue, where you can search by location, data provider and theme to see whether or not AURIN has the right dataset to power your research or policy program, or find out how you can become an AURIN data provider
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OTHER WORKBENCH TOOLS
AURIN’s portfolio of decision-support products includes tools to enable better evidence-based policy development and decision-making and more sophisticated analysis. Using cutting-edge simulation and scenario-planning techniques, these tools provide the opportunity to explore new ideas for urban growth and planning and enable a new level of creativity to be brought to bear on the planning process.
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