Amanda Alderton

Dr Amanda Alderton is a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. Drawing on her experience as a classroom teacher, Amanda works across disciplines including public health, health geography, urban studies, and developmental psychology. She holds a PhD in Global, Urban and Social Studies (RMIT University) and a Master of Public Health (University of Melbourne). 

Dr Alderton’s research seeks to understand the causes and consequences of mental health inequities: disparities in mental health between population groups that arise not through biology, but due to unequal living conditions, and are therefore preventable and unjust. Her research interests also include the study of neighbourhood effects, the built environment, place-based interventions, and positive mental health. As part of her fellowship, she will develop spatial neighbourhood indicators that can address mental health inequities during critical windows of child development (e.g., early childhood, adolescence) which set the foundations for mental health across the life course.