Dr. Sarah Foster
Associate Professor
Details
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College: School of GUSS
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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sarah.foster@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-8624-4908
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Sarah is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Director of the Centre for Urban Research 'Planning & Transport for Healthy Cities' theme. She leads a program of applied research designed to influence policy and practice to create healthier built environments. This includes ‘The High Life Study’ which examines the interplay between apartment design policy standards, the design of contemporary apartment buildings, and residents’ health and well-being, and an ARC Discovery Project on apartment residents' use of public open space. She is a member of the West Australian State Design Review Panel and Senior Assistant Editor with the journal ‘Environment and Behavior’.
Research fields
- 330413 Urban planning and health
- 420606 Social determinants of health
- 420210 Social epidemiology
UN sustainable development goals
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
Supervisor projects
- Apartment living, green space and health
- 26 Aug 2022
- The impact of high-density housing on public transport use
- 5 Aug 2022
- The Contribution of Neighbourhood Environmental Features to Socio-economic Inequity in Loneliness
- 26 Aug 2020
- Communal Areas, Neighbouring and Loneliness in apartment buildings: The CANaL study
- 12 Jul 2017
Research interests
Built environment and health, apartment design policy, apartment/strata housing, housing and health inequalities, policy evaluation, public open space and urban greening
