STAFF PROFILE
Dr Sarah Foster
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
DSC|School of GUSS
Phone:
+61399251525
Email:
sarah.foster@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Built environment; Crime and fear of crime; Mental health; Walking; Sense of community; Alcohol consumption; Apartment design; Design policy; Quantitative analysis
- Reid, R.,Foster, S.,Mavoa, S.,Rachele, J. (2024). Associations between changes in crime and changes in walking for transport with effect measure modification by gender: A fixed-effects analysis of the multilevel longitudinal HABITAT study (2007–2016) In: Health and Place, 85, 1 - 7
- Jamalishahni, T.,Davern, M.,Villanueva, K.,Turrell, G.,Foster, S. (2024). The contribution of objective and perceived crime to neighbourhood socio-inequity in loneliness In: Health and Place, 85, 1 - 11
- Kleeman, A.,Giles-Corti, B.,Gunn, L.,Hooper, P.,Foster, S. (2023). The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents' neighbouring and loneliness In: Cities, 133, 1 - 14
- De Gruyter, C.,Hooper, P.,Foster, S. (2023). Do apartment residents have enough car parking? An empirical assessment of car parking adequacy in Australian cities In: Journal of Transport Geography, 107, 1 - 11
- Jamalishahni, T.,Turrell, G.,Foster, S.,Davern, M.,Villanueva, K. (2023). Neighbourhood socio-economic disadvantage and loneliness: the contribution of green space quantity and quality In: BMC Public Health, 23, 1 - 17
- Kleeman, A.,Foster, S. (2023). ‘It feels smaller now’: The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on apartment residents and their living environment – A longitudinal study In: Journal of Environmental Psychology, 89, 1 - 9
- Hooper, P.,Kleeman, A.,Edwards, N.,Bolleter, J.,Foster, S. (2023). The architecture of mental health: identifying the combination of apartment building design requirements for positive mental health outcomes In: The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 37, 1 - 15
- Foster, S.,Giles-Corti, B.,Bolleter, J.,Turrell, G. (2023). Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia In: Cities, 143, 1 - 10
- Giles-Corti, B.,Foster, S.,Lynch, B.,Lowe, M. (2023). What are the lessons from COVID-19 for creating healthy, sustainable, resilient future cities? In: npj Urban Sustainability, 3, 1 - 6
- Kleeman, A.,Foster, S. (2023). Boxed in: changes in apartment residents’ health behaviours following the COVID-19 lockdown–a longitudinal cohort study In: Cities and Health, , 1 - 9
2 PhD Completions2 PhD Current Supervisions
- Creating evidence-based public open space standards for apartment residents. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2021 from (2021 to 2024)
- Joining Impact models of transport with spatial measures of the Built Environment (JIBE). Funded by: UKRI-NHMRC Research Scheme 2019 from (2020 to 2024)
- Map My Say - An Innovative Participatory Mapping Tool for TOD Evaluation (Administered by University of Western Australia). Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grants 2019 from (2020 to 2023)
- Improving outcomes for apartment residents and neighbourhoods (Administered by UNSW). Funded by: AHURI Research Grants 2019 (CAT 1 Generic) from (2019 to 2020)
- Optimising apartment design policy to equitably enhance mental health. Funded by: Healthway Health Promotion Research Intervention Grant from (2018 to 2022)