Current projects

Planning scenarios for better health

I am part of a team led by Prof Andrew Butt and Prof Melanie Davern that analyses how housing densities can be improved in ways that support healthy lifestyles. My role on this team is to develop a community engagement strategy that includes potential future residents of Victorian suburbs earmarked for densification. I also contribute a social infrastructure lens to this project.

Digital Inequality in Australian cities

I am leading a project titled ‘Social infrastructures for digital skills’ which is funded by the Australian Communication Consumers Action Network. This project analyses spaces in which people at risk of digital exclusion seek support with digital skills development and trouble shooting. The project follows up on a previous project that analysed how digital inequality was experienced by social housing tenants during pandemic lockdowns. The report and a paper from the finished project are listed under ‘publications’.

Inclusive community centres

My Vice Chancellor’s fellowship project analyses the funding and policy stressors that bear down on community centres in three states in Australia. This project examines how these stressors inform community centre strategies and priorities regarding whose needs they meet. The project also reveals the impacts of an enduring need to be flexible on a sector that is unique placed to develop trusting relationships with some of Australia’s most marginalised residents.