Our researchers are dedicated to helping develop healthy and inclusive communities and explore topics from medical geography to smart cities.
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Advancing six Sustainable Development Goals
Our researchers
Jennifer Dean
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Planning healthy and inclusive communities
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Multiculturalism, diversity and difference
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Neighbourhoods and health
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Social theory, qualitative methods and ethics
Susan Elliott
Geography and Environmental Management
- Network for Aging Research
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Medical geography, with primary research foci in the area of environment and health
- The global environment
- Urban social geography
- Philosophy and method in the social sciences
Jane Law
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Spatial epidemiology
- Crime mapping
- GIS and public health
- Advanced spatial statistical analysis and bayesian spatial modelling
- Spatial demography
- Neighbourhood/community studies
- Smart cities
- Can also supervise graduate students in Geography and Environmental Management
Leia Minaker
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Food environment assessment
- Population and public health
- Population health intervention research
- Food access in cities and planning for healthy food access
- Social determinants of health
Peter Crank
Geography and Environmental Management
- Urban climate
- Urban environmental health
- Extreme heat
- Biometeorology
- Can also supervise graduate students in the Faculty of Environment