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. 

Ameeta's primary research interests are in resilience and sustainability with particular emphasis on the approaches by business and associated stakeholders to advance sustainable organisations and cities. Ameeta's research is most often multi-disciplinary and directed towards examining issues of resilience and sustainability within the property and financial markets. She has had many successful government and industry grants on the application of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in national and regional settings. Her research has high impact as evidenced by the utilisation of the findings by National and local governments as well as property industry.

Ameeta has produced several reports focussing on Sustainable cities (Sustainable Development Goal 11) which have been highly regarded by industry and government stakeholders. 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 2024 onwards Ameeta has actively engaged with the community on how to make homes more enegy efficient and climate ready.

She is also 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.

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