My Expertise
- Healthy and sustainable urban development
- Transport planning
- Transport infrastructure (cost-benefit analysis)
- Travel behaviour (choice analysis)
- Micromobility/active transport
- Health equity
- Health impact assessment
- Epidemiology & biostatistics
Keywords
Fields of Research (FoR)
Urban and Regional Planning, Transportation and Freight Services, Public Health and Health Services, Panel Data Analysis, Econometric and Statistical Methods, Welfare EconomicsSEO tags
Biography
Christopher Standen is a research fellow in UNSW's School of Population Health.
His areas of expertise include travel behaviour/choices, healthy/sustainable cities, health impact assessment, health equity, environmental management and transport cost-benefit analysis.
Teaching experience includes transport policy, supply chain planning/design, GIS/spatial data analytics, quantitative analysis, data science, health impact assessment, health...view more
Christopher Standen is a research fellow in UNSW's School of Population Health.
His areas of expertise include travel behaviour/choices, healthy/sustainable cities, health impact assessment, health equity, environmental management and transport cost-benefit analysis.
Teaching experience includes transport policy, supply chain planning/design, GIS/spatial data analytics, quantitative analysis, data science, health impact assessment, health inequalities and visual data analytics.
Editorial board member for the Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research.
Associate Editor for Oxford Open Infrastructure and Health.
My Grants
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NSW Ministry of Health. “NSW Active Transport Health Model Phase 3” (2021).
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Healthy Urban Environments Collaboratory Seed Funding Scheme. "Waterloo housing estate redevelopment: Longitudinal assessment/study of residents’ health needs and circumstances (pilot project)" (2020).
- University of Sydney Business School Pilot Research Grant. "Looking for Positives: Health, Wellbeing and Active Transport Following a Pandemic" (2020).
- Charles Perkins Centre Seed Funding Scheme. “Evaluation of the health impact of new urban motorway infrastructure” (2019).
- City of Sydney Environmental Grants Program. “Profiling of George Street cycleway users for a community social marketing program” (2014).
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
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
Consulting and 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,
- Inequalities, inequities and health
- Data science
- Visual data analytics
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ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8027-6773