STAFF PROFILE
Dr Sarah Robertson
Sarah is a researcher in sustainability and teacher in research training, with a focus on in human-environment relations, ideas of place and sustainable and just housing transitions
Sarah is a writer and urban and cultural geographer in the Centre for Urban Research with expertise in human-environment relations in cities and sustainable and just housing. In the context of significant global ecological stress and change, her research examines the relations between humans, 'urban natures', housing and home places as designed and made.
Sarah's teaching and supervisory interests include qualitative and innovative research methods, theory, sustainable and low/no carbon housing, temporalities of climate adaptation and climate justice, and placemaking.
- Research Fellow, Housing Energy Efficiency Transitions Project
- Member, Centre for Urban Research
- Teacher, Research Training Unit
Sarah has worked with local and state governments, social and environment not-for-profit organisations, and industry partners.
Sarah is also a former editor of Sanctuary: modern green homes magazine, published by ReNew.
- Middha, B.,Robertson, S.,Willand, N.,Horne, R. (2022). Man caves, granny flats and alternative living spaces: Low carbon home retrofit and implications for policymaking In: Energy Research and Social Science, 87, 1 - 10
- Willand, N.,Moore, T.,Horne, R.,Robertson, S. (2020). Retrofit Poverty: Socioeconomic Spatial Disparities in Retrofit Subsidies Uptake In: Buildings and Cities, 1, 14 - 35
- Robertson, S. (2020). Re-placing soil and its mattering in more-than-human cities In: Australian Geographer, 51, 307 - 324
- Phillips, C.,Robertson, S. (2020). Nonhuman place In: The Routledge Handbook of Place, Routledge, United Kingdom
- robertson, s. (2018). Rethinking relational ideas of place in more-than-human cities In: Geography Compass, 12, 1 - 12
- Amati, M.,Freestone, R.,Robertson, S. (2017). "Learning the city": Patrick Geddes, exhibitions, and communicating planning ideas In: Landscape and Urban Planning, 166, 97 - 105
- Fuenfgeld, H.,robertson, s. (2016). Enabling climate change adaptation across Gippsland local governments: Staff perceptions of adaptive capacity and regional collaboration In: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning and East Gippsland Shire Council Melbourne, Australia
- Towards climate resilient families - mapping intersections of vulnerability to summer heat responses. Funded by: Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation - Seed Innovation Grant from (2024 to 2025)
- What happened to the outside? Exploring the role of 'nature' in household retrofits. Funded by: Fuel Poverty Research Network - Competitive from (2021 to 2023)