Planning and Building Healthy Communities: A multidisciplinary longitudinal study of the relationship between the built environment and human health. This project examines how urban environments support health. Tracking residents’ behaviours over a long time, the study fills a gap in current knowledge about how urban environments manage and promote good health (a national research priority area). It will identify the design features, social interventions and locational qualities in selected sit ....Planning and Building Healthy Communities: A multidisciplinary longitudinal study of the relationship between the built environment and human health. This project examines how urban environments support health. Tracking residents’ behaviours over a long time, the study fills a gap in current knowledge about how urban environments manage and promote good health (a national research priority area). It will identify the design features, social interventions and locational qualities in selected sites which positively benefit human health. The research will describe the likely health outcomes for future Australians living in areas with similar characteristics. It will also strengthen multidisciplinary approaches and policy development in this area by bringing together a team from urban planning, development and health.Read moreRead less
Incorporating Indigenous Landscape Values into Regional Planning Processes. Following on from the successful indigenous engagement in this project’s pilot study, the proposed research has the potential to make significant contributions to Australia’s reconciliation process. It will work towards an equitable and balanced approach to the way our society manages the landscape, through inclusion of the aspirations, priorities and values of indigenous communities. This elevation of indigenous landsc ....Incorporating Indigenous Landscape Values into Regional Planning Processes. Following on from the successful indigenous engagement in this project’s pilot study, the proposed research has the potential to make significant contributions to Australia’s reconciliation process. It will work towards an equitable and balanced approach to the way our society manages the landscape, through inclusion of the aspirations, priorities and values of indigenous communities. This elevation of indigenous landscape values, which by and large have been excluded from traditional planning processes, will facilitate cross-cultural understanding and can extend into associated fields of community development. Achieving these proactive outcomes will significantly improve landscape management whilst strengthening community ties.
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Improving Sub-national Population Forecasts. The aim of this project is to make significant advances in two related areas of regional, council area and local population forecasting, namely improving accuracy, and providing an indication of forecast uncertainty. Population forecasts often turn out to be far more inaccurate than users realise and fail to come with any information about reliability. Every year forecasts inform a wide variety of planning and policy development activities and influen ....Improving Sub-national Population Forecasts. The aim of this project is to make significant advances in two related areas of regional, council area and local population forecasting, namely improving accuracy, and providing an indication of forecast uncertainty. Population forecasts often turn out to be far more inaccurate than users realise and fail to come with any information about reliability. Every year forecasts inform a wide variety of planning and policy development activities and influence investment decisions worth billions of dollars. In order to increase the value of forecasts to users, this project aims to combine methods from a range of disciplines to devise more accurate ways of forecasting populations, and provide accompanying information on their likely error.Read moreRead less
Building a more sustainable city: official and everyday practices of regeneration. By exploring urban regeneration on a city-wide scale, this project will investigate how the urban fabric is changed, by both official large-scale regeneration projects and the everyday practices of households. The research will address critical gaps in our understandings of how cities can be regenerated and how to mobilise transitions to urban sustainability.
Domain-driven information, quality assurance and interoperability for road transport systems. This project addresses the ever increasing need for improved information quality in the area of road transport and urban planning. Public bodies, like State and Federal authorities, require highly accurate sets of personal records as they are central authorities for the identification of individuals. This project will develop techniques for the enhancement of these records.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120102428
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Securing the Australian city: the governance of critical infrastructure in climate change. This project focuses on the securitisation and governance of critical urban infrastructure (that is energy, water, transport, communication) within the context of climate change. The research examines how critical infrastructure is framed as a key security issue, and the implications for climate governance in Australian cities.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE180101613
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$319,996.00
Summary
Creating The Australian environmental quality index for children. This project aims to provide new evidence on trajectories of child development and wellbeing. The project’s analysis will link national cohort data with area-level attributes describing physical, built and social environments and explore effects on children’s physical, cognitive, social and emotional development, and overall wellbeing. The project findings will be used to create a new spatial index, area typology and interactive m ....Creating The Australian environmental quality index for children. This project aims to provide new evidence on trajectories of child development and wellbeing. The project’s analysis will link national cohort data with area-level attributes describing physical, built and social environments and explore effects on children’s physical, cognitive, social and emotional development, and overall wellbeing. The project findings will be used to create a new spatial index, area typology and interactive map for understanding spatial aspects of child development and wellbeing. It is anticipated that these outputs will be useful for supporting targeted resource allocations and interventions.Read moreRead less
Reconceptualising urban planning and the built form: comparative international policies and evidence to reduce health inequities and social exclusion. Where people live affects their opportunities to lead productive lives and feel socially included. This project explores how different aspects of urban planning, rebuilding housing and neighbourhoods, shapes residents' health and wellbeing. The findings will assist Australian government and aims to strengthen socio-economically disadvantaged commu ....Reconceptualising urban planning and the built form: comparative international policies and evidence to reduce health inequities and social exclusion. Where people live affects their opportunities to lead productive lives and feel socially included. This project explores how different aspects of urban planning, rebuilding housing and neighbourhoods, shapes residents' health and wellbeing. The findings will assist Australian government and aims to strengthen socio-economically disadvantaged communities.Read moreRead less
Belonging begins at home: promoting social inclusion and wellbeing for asylum seekers and people from refugee backgrounds. This project will explore housing settlement experiences of refugees and asylum seekers entering Australia. This information will advance understanding of how these experiences affect social inclusion and health and wellbeing, and will provide information to policy makers, practitioners, and communities about how to best support humanitarian migrants.
Intelligent real time multi-site controller for conserving energy in remote areas and in the resource industry. This project researches the issues in achieving demand response for electricity usage in remote regions of Australia through the use of smart meters and web of things framework to provide ubiquitous monitoring and control of devices, intelligent control systems to dynamically change energy usage patterns and community-based social network architecture. This will lead to several benefit ....Intelligent real time multi-site controller for conserving energy in remote areas and in the resource industry. This project researches the issues in achieving demand response for electricity usage in remote regions of Australia through the use of smart meters and web of things framework to provide ubiquitous monitoring and control of devices, intelligent control systems to dynamically change energy usage patterns and community-based social network architecture. This will lead to several benefits, such as (a) the strengthening of Australian business competitiveness in these regions by reducing energy costs and increasing energy trading, (b) reduction in ecological impact through smarter utilisation of energy and shifting to renewable sources, (c) encourage local generation and distribution of electricity where communities can trade excess energy.Read moreRead less