Andrew Beer is the Executive Dean of the UniSA Business School. He is also a leading researcher across a range of areas including Australia’s housing market, the drivers of growth and change in regions, the processes of industry adjustment and the performance of non-metropolitan housing markets. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences and has worked closely with a number industry partners over many years. Andrew is a foremost expert in the outcomes associated with the closure of Australia’s car industry: working on the closure of the Mitsubishi plant at Lonsdale in the early 2000s, and then leading a project examining industry shutdown from 2017. Other significant projects he has led include a study into the drivers of growth in Australia’s smaller cities, the impact of Covid-19 induced disruption in regional housing markets in Australia, how to better govern and deliver place-based programs, the impact of cold housing on health and how to transition regional economies away towards a post-coal mining future.  
Andrew’s research partners have included local governments, the OECD, the Australian Government, the South Australian Government, the Victorian Government, social service providers and collaborators from international universities including Tampere University, Finland; The University of Birmingham, UK; George Mason University, USA; Charles University, Czech Republic and the University of Kiel, Germany.