Rupa Ganguli (she/her) is as an Associate Lecturer in Western Sydney University’s School of Business, teaching property research and valuation subjects. She completed her PhD in 2022. Her doctoral thesis used an institutional lens to unravel the practices and key actors in the off-the-plan sales of strata titled apartments underpinning Sydney’s post-GFC market cycle. She has subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher on housing market related projects funded by the Australian Research Council and Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Her current research interests are in uncovering inefficiencies and risks in property market processes and practices to inform policy and regulatory change.

Prior to transitioning to an academic career, Rupa worked in the property industry in various research and consulting roles, informing development and investment decision making of public and private property sector clients.

Rupa is a member of the Australian Property Institute, Pacific Rim Real Estate Society and part of the U.K. Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHe)'s Australia - UK Housing network of researchers.