Dr Christopher Martin Standen

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...view more

Associate Editor of Oxford Open Infrastructure and Health.

My Grants

2019

Evaluation of the health impact of new urban motorway infrastructure

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 (Hons.) Physics, computer science

My Awards

Dean's Citation for Teaching, University of Sydney Business School (2020)

Australian Postgraduate Award Industry Scholarship (2013)

My Research Supervision

Supervision keywords

travel behaviour

active transport

equity of access

cost-benefit analysis

city and urban planning

public health

traffic modeling

equity

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.

My Engagement

Translation of research into policy and practice

Health impact assessment for Sydney Metro West project.
Economic Active Transport Project to deliver a best-practice method to cost the health benefits of active transport in NSW.

In the media

The Sydney Morning Herald, March 14, 2022:
Brace yourself Sydney for more transport chaos
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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