FACTBase Launched

The University of Western Australia (UWA) and the Committee for Perth have teamed up to appoint two international experts to lead a project benchmarking the liveability of Perth and its global connectedness.

The researchers, from the UK and New Zealand, will add to the team of UWA academics working to examine economic, social, demographic and political factors that contribute to Perth’s liveability and how that compares with, and connects to, other cities around the world.

The FACTBase project, which is one of the only broad-reaching projects of its kind to be undertaken in the southern hemisphere, will not only condense the plethora of databases and studies on the subject, but map what’s happening in Perth in pictures as well as words.

Vice Chancellor of UWA Professor Alan Robson said the five-year project would be undertaken and developed as an academic resource in the first instance but may be expanded to enable broader access via the web.

“UWA is an internationally renowned university that has research links around the globe and FACTBase will not only benchmark Perth’s liveability but also measure its global connectedness,” he said.