My Expertise
Transport and health, urban planning, active mobility (walking and cycling), travel behaviour, road safety, health equity, health impact assessment, cost-benefit analysis, geospatial analysis (GIS), visual data analytics.
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My Grants
2020
- 2020 HUE Seed Funding Scheme, Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) Collaboratory, Maridulu Budyari Gumal. "Waterloo housing estate redevelopment: Longitudinal assessment/study of residents’ health needs and circumstances (pilot project)".
- Pilot Research Grant 2020, University of Sydney Business School. "Looking for Positives: Health, Wellbeing and Active Transport Following a Pandemic".
My Qualifications
PhD,...view more
My Grants
2020
- 2020 HUE Seed Funding Scheme, Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) Collaboratory, Maridulu Budyari Gumal. "Waterloo housing estate redevelopment: Longitudinal assessment/study of residents’ health needs and circumstances (pilot project)".
- Pilot Research Grant 2020, University of Sydney Business School. "Looking for Positives: Health, Wellbeing and Active Transport Following a Pandemic".
My Qualifications
PhD, MEM, BSc
My Awards
Dean's Citation for Teaching, University of Sydney Business School (2020)
Australian Postgraduate Award Industry Scholarship (2013)
My Research Supervision
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Areas of supervision
I welcome supervision enquiries about PhD/masters/honours research on:
- urban development, travel behaviour and health;
- the relationships between them; and
- translation into policy and practice.
Potential research topics/questions:.
- Exploring the design of interchanges with homelessness in mind (in partnership with Transport for NSW).
- Social return on investment tool for infrastructure and transport projects (in partnership with Transport for NSW).
- How to price-value the benefits of placemaking for the development of business cases (in partnership with Transport for NSW).
- How to price-value the benefits of active transport (in partnership with Transport for NSW).
- How well are public health and health equity considerations incorporated into urban planning education?
- Improving modelling and forecasting for active travel (walking and cycling).
For information about scholarships, see https://research.unsw.edu.au/graduate-research-scholarships.
For information about admission requirements, see https://research.unsw.edu.au/submit-application.
Currently supervising
- Alec Cobbald. What is the effect of taking multi-legged complex trips on one’s quality of life or health satisfaction? A cross-sectional analysis of urban
residents’ travel behaviour in inner-Sydney, Australia (master's dissertation). Sydney School of Public Health.
My Engagement
Translation of research into policy and practice
- Advised Transport for NSW on updates to its economic appraisal guidelines for active/healthy transport infrastructure.
- Consulted on health impact assessment for Sydney Metro West project.
In the media
- The Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 23, 2019:
The M4 East: so much pain and public expense and for what? - The Conversation, May 10, 2018:
Why the need for speed? Transport spending priorities leave city residents worse off - The Conversation, Sep 7, 2017:
People take to their bikes when we make it safer and easier for them - The Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 18, 2016:
Who’s planning Sydney? Not Lucy Turnbull, as Haberfield shows - The Sydney Morning Herald, May 12, 2016:
Sydney needs congestion on its roads so we don't have complete gridlock
My Teaching
Teaching experience includes transport policy, supply chain planning/design, GIS/spatial data analytics, quantitative methods for transport/logistics, data science and visual data analytics.
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ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8027-6773