About Me

My academic and professional achievements focus on methods of community engagement to understand and promote healthy, stimulating and resilient places. I have worked in the US, Philippines and UK to enliven people’s capacities to create and promote enduring spaces of individual and communal wellbeing. My doctoral thesis used a social-ecological lens to assess how the physical and social environment contributes to children’s active school travel as well as to explore the diverse and complex interpretations that children possess about walking. I am currently focused on innovation in public health, specifically, how we might improve the processes of community engagement through design thinking.

General

Awards

Advance Higher Education Fellowship

Professional Experience

2019- present Lecturer (Public Health) Provide course coordination, lecturing and research supervision

2018 Senior Consultant, CoDesign Studio. Developed creative community engagement strategies to activate placemaking

2006-2015 Research Associate, UNSW. Catalysed research and practice to strengthen healthy communities through the Healthy Built Environments Program and to inculcate sustainability and situated learning through FBEOutThere! projects

Professional Memberships

Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia, Deputy Chair Early Career Academic Committee

Victorian Local Governance Association Child-Friendly Cities and Communities Advisory Committee

Child-friendly Cities Initiative Regional Network (Asia-Pacific)

Project for Public Spaces Placemaking Leadership Council

Professional Interests

Community engagement

Placemaking

Play

Human-centred design thinking

Child-friendly cities

Industry Reports

2007 Corkery, L., Grant, A., Roche, B., & Romero, V. ‘They should fix the crack’: Reflections on the built environment in the middle school years. Prepared for the NSW Architects Registration Board.

Recent Research Projects

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Research Supervision

Accreditation

I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:

4206 Public health
3304 Urban and Regional Planning

Current Capacity

I am currently available to supervise more research candidates

Current Supervision

Doctor of Philosophy

Examining individual well-being and community engagement through Urban Agricultural practises (home gardening)

Principal Supervisor

Research Interests

Built Environment And Design

Urban and Regional Planning - Urban planning and health
Community engagement; neighbourhood environment

Education

Other Education - Other education not elsewhere classified

Health Sciences

Public health - Public health not elsewhere classified
Human-centred design thinking, participatory health research; active transport; play

Publications

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Teaching

Higher Education

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Vocational Education and Training