Our team
Alison Whitten
Director, Member & Chair
Planning | Housing | Urban design
Cassia Read
Co-founding Member
Ecology | Education | Design
Lexi Randall-L'Estrange
Executive Director & Co-Founding Member
Health Equity | Water | Wellbeing Economy
Melina Chan
Director & Member
Facilitation | Strategy| Innovation
Warwick Smith
Director & Co-Founding Member
Economics | Public policy| Research
Ada Nano
Member
Ecology | Education | Cross-cultural Research
Jodi Newcombe
Co-founding Member
Economics | Climate | Creative Industries
Lisa Merkesteyn
Member
Architecture | Urban Design | Project Management
Melissa Kennedy
Associate
Wellbeing Economy | Systems Change | Human Geography
Our Research Committee
As an Approved Research Institute and educational charity, Castlemaine Institute is constitutionally required to maintain a Research Committee to guide the quality, ethics and focus of our work.
We are deeply grateful to the members of this committee for their generosity, rigour and wisdom, and proud to draw on their expertise as we continue to grow our research practice.
Warwick Smith (Chair) – Director, Castlemaine Institute and Research Director, Centre for Policy Development
Jason Gibson – Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University
Nicola Fortune – Assistant Director, NDIS Participant Outcomes and Research Strategy Section, Department of Social Services
Nina Roberts – PhD candidate, Latrobe University (2020-ongoing part time)
James Whitten – Lecturer, Urban Planning and Design, Monash University
