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Awards and Achievements
PIA (National Division) Award for Excellence in Planning - Planning Scholarship, Research, or Teaching, 2008
"Planning Australia: An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning", Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.
Faculty of the Built Environment Research Excellence Award 2007
Senior Researcher Category
Selected Research Grants
Planning and Building Healthy Communities: A multidisciplinary longitudinal study of the relationship between the built environment and human health
Funded by the Australian Research Council and Research Partners Landcom, National Heart Foundation of Australia and Sydney Southwest Health. This project examines how urban environments support health. Tracking residents’ behaviours over a long time, the study fills a gap in current knowledge about how urban environments manage and promote good health (a national research priority area). It will identify the design features, social interventions and locational qualities in selected sites which positively benefit human health. The research will describe the likely health outcomes for future Australians living in areas with similar characteristics. It will also strengthen multidisciplinary approaches and policy development in this area by bringing together a team from urban planning, development and health.
Nature strips: A healthy, socially and environmentally sustainable local resource
Thompson, SM, UNSW Faculty Research Grants Program, 2009, $15,000
Human health and wellbeing in environmental assessment in New South Wales: Auditing health impacts within environmental assessments for major urban development projects
Harris, PJ; Harris E & Thompson SM,, UNSW Faculty Research Grants Program, 2006, $27,000
Planning for Socially Sustainable Urban Renewal in Suburban Sydney
Randolph, WG; Thompson, SM; Earl, WG; Williams PJ; Judd, BH; Bunker, RC; Fingland, S., ARC Linkage Grant, 2005, $179,000 (with partners)
Transnationalism and Citizenship: the Australian experience in comparative perspective
Inglis, C; Ip, D; Thompson, SM & Dunn, K, ARC Discovery Grant, 2003-2005, $232,000
The role of community gardens in neighbourhood improvement and community development in the Waterloo and Redfern Public Housing Estates
Thompson, SM; Judd, B & Corkery, L, Faculty of the Built Environment Grant, 1999, $8,000
The geography of cultural difference, justice and local citizenship
Thompson, SM; Dunn, K; Burnley, I & Murphy, P., ARC Large Grant, 1998, $65,000
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Associate Professor
PhD MTCP Syd; BA (Hons) Dip Ed Macq; MPIA; CPP
Planning Program
Susan Thompson has worked as a planner in Australia for over 30 years. She joined UNSW in 1991 after holding positions in both state and local government encompassing strategic and statutory planning. Major service activities for the Faculty include Head, Planning and Urban Development Program (2005-2008) and Presiding Member of Faculty (1999-2003). Susan has made significant contributions to the continuing professional education program of the Faculty (particularly the Planning Law and Practice Short Course) and the development of qualitative methods in built environment research. She has also had a key role in establishing a mentoring scheme in the Faculty and greater cultural awareness in classroom practices and curriculum development. In her role as Head of the Planning Program she initiated a Student Advisory Committee, a mentoring scheme for year one students and directed the 40th anniversary celebrations for the Planning Degree in 2006. Susan continues to maintain strong links with the profession, bringing currency to both research and teaching. She is a frequent contributor to professional practice forums on different issues including cultural diversity, belonging, healthy urban planning and community safety. Since 2005 she has been actively working in the field of healthy planning. Her contributions have had a significant impact in tertiary education, professional development and the advancement of closer links between the disciplines of urban planning and health.
Teaching
Teaches social and cultural planning, healthy planning, local planning and qualitative methods.
Research
Dr Thompson has wide and cross-disciplinary research interests. Main areas of inquiry include: • Healthy planning encompassing community gardens, edible verges and inter-sectoral ways-of-working to promote healthy cities and communities
• Cultural diversity and urban planning; responsiveness of built environment practitioners to cultural diversity
• Development of qualitative research methods in the built environment disciplines
• Meanings of home Dr Thompson has been successful in competitive research grant capture from a range of granting bodies including the ARC, UNSW, and the former National Bureau of Immigration Research.
Recent Publications
Papers & Book Chapters
Maginn, P., Thompson, SM. & Tonts, M., 2008, 'Qualitative Housing Analysis: A Meta-Framework for Systematising Qualitative Research', in Qualitative Housing Analysis : An International Perspective, eds Maginn, Thompson, Tonts, Emerald Press, UK.
Williams, PJ., Freestone, R. & Thompson, SM., 2008, 'Quantifying student perceptions of work experience to assess the effectiveness of practice-based learning', in Planning Education in a Globalised World, Conference Proceedings, ANZAPS Conference 2008, eds S. Thompson, N. Gurran, P. Phibbs and G. Searle, Sydney, Sydney, pp. 141 - 158
Maginn, P., Thompson, SM. & Tonts, M., 2008, 'Quality Urban Analysis:Towards a pragmatic Renaissance', in Qualitative Urban Analysis: An international perspective, eds P. Maginn, S. Thompson and M. Tonts, JAI Press, Oxford, UK.
Blokland, T., Maginn, P. & Thompson, SM., 2008, 'Methodological Consequences of Inclusive community development:The Value of Ethnography for Housing Studies', in Qualitative Housing Analysis : An International Perspective, eds Maginn, Thompson, Tonts, Emerald Press, UK.
Thompson, SM. 'Home and Loss:renegotiating Meanings of Home in the Wake of Relationship Breakdown'. Media/Culture Journal 2007; 10(4): .
Williams, PJ., Freestone, R. & Thompson, SM. 'Measuring the Effectiveness of Practice-Based Learning: Monitoring Student Perceptions of Work Experience'. In: Developing Competent People. University of Salford, UK, Centre for Education in the Built Environment, pp. 1 - 18 2007.
Thompson, SM. & Meenachi-Sunderam, D. 'The Nature Strip: An Environmental and Social Resource for Local Communities'. In: Proceedings of the State of Australian cities National Conference 2007. Adelaid, University of South Australia, 2007.
Quintal, D. & Thompson, SM. 'Gated Communities: The Search for Security Development Approval in Wyong, New South Wales'. In: Proceedings of the State of Australian Cities National Conference 2007. Adelaide, University of South Australia, pp. 1034 - 1045 2007.
Judd, BH., Thompson, SM. & Corkery, LF. 'The Role of Community Gardens in Sustaining Healthy Communities'. In: Proceedings of the State Austrlaian Cities National Conference 2007. Adelaide, University of South Australia, pp. 161 - 172 2007.
Thompson, SM. 'Planning Australia into the Future'. In: Susan Thompson, eds. Planning Australia: An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Thompson, SM. 'Planning for Diverse Communities'. In: Susan Thompson, eds. Planning Australia: An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Thompson, SM. 'What is Planning'. In: Susan Thompson, eds. Planning Australia: An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Thompson, SM. 'A Planner's Perspective on the Health Impacts of Urban Settings'. NSW Public Health Bulletin 2007; 18(10): pp. 157 - 160.
Freestone, R., Williams, PJ., Thompson, SM. & Trembath, K. 'A Quantitative Approach to Assessment of Work-based Learning Outcomes: An Urban Planning Application'. Higher Education Research and Development 2007; 26 No.4(December 2007): pp. 347 - 361.
Thompson, SM. & Whitten, C., 2006, 'Cultural Collision: The Chanllenge of Planning for the Public Spatial Needs of Muslim Women', in Women and Environments; Women and Urban Sustainability (Special Issue), vol No.70/71(Spring/Summer 2006), pp. 14 - 16.
Thompson, SM., 2006, 'The Quest for Heatful Environments: A Qualitative Research's Journey', in Urban Policy and Research, vol 24(1), pp. 17 - 38.
Freestone, R., Thompson, SM. & Williams, PJ., 2006, 'Student Experience of Work Based Learning in Planning Education', in Journal of Planning Education and Research, vol 26, pp. 237 - 249.
Thompson, SM., 2005, 'Digestible differrence: food, ethnicity and spatial claims in the city', in International Migration and Security: Culture, Identity, Opportunities and Challenges, eds E. Guild, J. van Selm, Routledge, London.
Thompson, SM. & Whitten, C., 2005, 'When cultures collide: planning for the public spatial needs of muslim women in Sydney', in na, eds na, Brisbane, http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/soac2005/, pp. 1 - 14
Thompson, SM., 2005, 'Meaning of home in relationship breakdown: understanding for conflict resolution professionals', in Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, vol 16 No 4(1st), pp. 257 - 270.
Thompson, SM. & Gallico, T., 2005, 'Are metropolitan planning frameworks healthy? The broader context', in na, eds na, Brisbane, http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/soac2005/, pp. 1 - 19
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