Liveability 2

Dr Afshin Jafari

Afshin Jafari is an engineer and computer scientist. After beginning as a PhD student in 2018, Afshin is now a Research Fellow within the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab. His research focuses on agent and activity-based modelling with a particular focus on mobility modelling and cycling. Afshin is currently a collaborator of an NHMRC-UKRI funded project called …
Carl Higgs

Carl Higgs is a doctoral researcher in the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University. With a background in cultural studies, spatial epidemiology, and computational statistics, through his PhD he is developing methods to support calculation and dissemination of spatial indicators of urban liveability using open data and an …
Associate Professor Melanie Davern

Associate Professor Melanie Davern is Acting Deputy Director of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University and Director of the Australian Urban Observatory.
Julianna Rozek

Ms Rozek is a Research Officer with the Healthy Liveable Cities Group at RMIT University.
Dr Claire Boulange

Dr Boulange’s research spans urban planning and public health disciplines, focusing on how city planning and urban analytics can support creation of liveable urban environments.
Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti

Distinguished Professor Giles-Corti is a Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at RMIT University and Director of the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab at RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research.
Dr Jonathan Arundel

Dr Arundel is a Senior Research Fellow with the Healthy Liveable Cities Group at RMIT University.
Dr Hannah Badland

Associate Professor Badland is a Principal Research Fellow based in the School of Global Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University.
Dr Lucy Gunn

Dr Lucy Gunn has 20 years of experience in research and teaching in the fields of econometrics and urban research. Her key interest is in understanding which urban environments are supportive of health and wellbeing outcomes.
Professor Sally Redman

Professor Redman holds academic appointments at the University of Sydney, University of Newcastle and University of NSW.