Annette Kroen

Dr Annette Kroen is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Research. She is an urban and regional planner and her research explores suburban growth areas, transport choice, social connectedness, resilience and the relation between disaster management and planning policy.

Annette's wider research interests span the areas of outer suburban development, metropolitan governance, community engagement and development, and integrated transport and land use planning.

Currently, Annette works on projects investigating natural hazards and resilience in complex urban systems; social connectedness in communities on the urban fringe; and the long-term impacts of place-making and innovation initiatives in a master-planned estate. Previous projects include work on housing policy, settlement planning, and disaster prevention, preparedness and response; resilience planning; early provision of transport options in new suburbs; benefit evaluation of investment in infrastructure in outer suburban growth areas; smart and sustainable cities; and National Urban Policy.

Annette has worked on several research projects where different industry partners were involved, such as State Government agencies, Local Government, developers and NGOs. She has worked as a transport and spatial policy analyst within the Victorian State Government, and in private practice as a facilitator and consultant on a range of planning related projects.