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📢 PhD Scholarship Opportunity – Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) to support ageing in place I am currently recruiting a PhD candidate for my ARC Future Fellowship project at Queensland University of Technology (QUT): “Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities: Our Future for Ageing in place?” The fully funded PhD scholarship will understand the formation of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) and examine how NORCs facilitate older Aus

Australia's rights-based aged care reform is now six months old. For researchers working on housing, communities, and the built environment, the question is whether the places where ageing actually happens are ready to deliver on those rights. On 1 November 2025, the most far-reaching overhaul of Australia's aged care system in nearly three decades came into force. The new Aged Care Act 2024 replaced laws that had governed the sector since 1997, the Support at Home programme

This article is reproduced from a post by Ryan Loveday on LinkedIn This week saw the first in our new event series - “Places for Ageing- Out of the Box” with a engaging discussion by Prof. Bo Xia at QUT. A nice engaged little crowd in a informal setting and some great topics to throw around on the night. The talk centred on PhD research by Prof Bo and his students on the phenomenon of NORC’s (Naturally Ocurring Retirement Communities)… that is, neighbourhoods that were not or