Career
Her main research interest lies in extending the frontiers of planning theories which are praxis-based and in discursive and relational analyses of participatory planning strategies. Other research interests include social exclusion, the impact of planning decisions on women and marginalised groups and discursive environmental planning. Analysis of facilitation of community transformation, economic redevelopment and housing issues in declining areas in England and Poland.
Industrial restructuring in the United Kingdom. American Red Cross research in the south-west of Western Australia on the social and economic impacts of restructuring in the timber industry Two AHURI projects, on regional disadvantage and strengthening communities respectively.
Analysis of the impact of urban renewal of public housing estates on Indigenous households and econometric modelling of risks associated with public sector home ownership schemes for economically marginal households. Presently working on KATARSIS Prizes and