Associate ProfessorAmeeta Jain

Dr Ameeta Jain is an Associate Professor in Property & Real Estate in the Department of Finance at the Deakin Business School. She has more than 15 years of teaching experience in Economics, Property and Finance units and has led unit teams in the development and enhancement of various units. Ameeta is passionate about teaching and has been rewarded consistently for her teaching excellence. She served as the director of undergraduate property programs at Deakin between 2016-2023, where she was responsible for managing industry accreditation for property courses. 

From 2025 onwards, Ameeta is serving as the Faculty of Business and Law lead in Deakin’s HOME research group. Ameeta is the Co-Director of Principles of Responsible Management (PRME) at Deakin Business School. In this role she has been successfully delivering Carbon Literacy Training for staff at Australian and international universities since 2022.

 Ameeta's research is most often multi-disciplinary and directed towards examining issues relating to sustainability with particular emphasis on approaches by business and associated stakeholders to advance sustainable organisations and cities. She has had many successful government and industry grants on the application of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, particularly SDG 11 and 13) in national and regional settings. Her more recent work focuses on housing and urban resilience to climate change, natural disasters, and socio-economic shocks, supported by competitive grants from local governments and industry.

 She has published in highly ranked international peer-reviewed journals. Ameeta is regularly invited by media on various occasions to discuss her research on trends in property market. From 2022 onwards Ameeta has delivered successfully on local council funded projects on affordable and climate ready housing. 

Her research contributes to the DBS themes "Business and Society" and to Deakin 2030 Ideas to Impact strategy through the themes of Building Safe and Secure Communities and Enabling a Sustainable World as well as the multidisciplinary vision of the HOME research hub.

Research Groups
HOME Research Centre