Staff of the Healthy Built Environments Program regularly present at different conferences, seminars and forums.
Inaugural Professorial Lecture
City Wellbeing Director, Susan Thompson, recently presented her inaugural professorial lecture at UNSW. You can listen to the lecture entitled Making Places for People: Planning to support health and well-being and view the PowerPoint slides .
Obesity Australia Summit
On 28-29 November 2013, the 2nd annual National Obesity Australia Summit was held in Canberra. The theme of the Summit was ‘Obesity: Understanding and Action’. HBEP Director Susan Thompson was invited to present on ‘Creating Healthy Built Environments’. Click here for the Summit program and here for Susan’s presentation.
Secured by Automobility Seminar
On 11 September 2013, HBEP Research Associate Jennifer Kent presented a seminar on her PhD research entitled Secured by Automobility, why does the private car continue to dominate transport practices? The seminar received overwhelming support from both within and outside the Faculty, attracting over 30 attendees representing the Faculty as well as Transport for NSW, local government and cycling advocacy groups. The presentation was both videoed and sound recorded. The video recording can be accessed here .
Working Across Disciplines to Address Complex Problems
On 23 August, HBEP Director Susan Thompson had the pleasure of speaking to the Water Services Association of Australia’s (WSAA) Adaptive Planning and Integrated Water Management Network. The topic of Susan’s presentation was Planning, Health and the Environment: Working across disciplines, breaking down professional silos . Click here to access Susan’s talk.
Presentation at the 6th Liveable Cities Conference
The 6th Making Cities Liveable Conference was held in conjunction with the Sustainability Conference entitled ‘Sustainable Transformation’ in Melbourne from 17 – 19 June 2013. Bringing environmental sustainability and healthy cities work together was an important recognition of the growing synergies between these two areas. HBEP Director Susan Thompson and Ms Claudine Lyons from the Ministry of Health jointly presented on the achievements and challenges of the HBEP. The presentation entitled: ‘The Healthy Built Environments Program: Working together to break down health and planning silos’ can be viewed here .
Presentation at Planning Institute of Australia National Congress
In March 2013, HBEP Casual Research Assistant Andrew Wheeler attended and presented a paper at the PIA 2013 National Congress in Canberra. Andrew’s paper was entitled ‘Policy prescriptions for healthy cities: how do Australian metropolitan strategies compare?’. Andrew presented in a session on ‘Healthy Spaces and Population Health’, alongside speakers from the National Heart Foundation, local government and the private sector. The presentation showcased the findings of Andrew's award-winning undergraduate thesis, which was supervised by HBEP Director Susan Thompson. You can view the presentation here .
Presentation at the 7th Australasian Housing Researchers Conference
The 7th Australasian Housing Researchers Conference was held in Fremantle, Western Australia from 6-8 February 2013. The overarching theme of the conference was 'Housing the Needs of Diverse Populations'. HBEP Research Officer Emily Mitchell gave a presentation entitled 'The Healthy Neighbourhood Audit Instrument: Understanding the Environmental and Socio-Cultural Conditions to Support Healthy, Happy and Resilient Residential Communities'. This presentation provided an overview of how the audit instrument was developed, and how it has been applied in the field for the HBEP ARC Linkage funded project Planning and Building Healthy Communities . You can view the presentation here .
Cycling for Women Advocacy Talk
On 2 February 2013, Jennifer Kent represented the HBEP to address a women-specific workshop on cycling. The workshop was hosted by Bicycle NSW as part of their ‘Gear Up Girl’ program. Although there has been a recent surge in the uptake of cycling across many demographic segments of society, women are still under-represented in cycling statistics, particularly cycling for transport. Gear Up Girl is an initiative that provides opportunities for women to experience the pleasure of riding a bike, culminating each year with a mass participation ride from Cronulla to Sydney Olympic Park. This year, the ride was preceded by a workshop for women to learn basic bike maintenance skills and nutrition, as well as discuss some of the experiences of women on the road. You can view the presentation here .
Heart Foundation’s Annual Solicitors’ Lunch
On 16 August 2012, HBEP Director Susan Thompson gave an invited guest presentation about the relationship between public health and the built environment, the activities of the HBEP and the seminal role of the Heart Foundation in this work. Her talk can be downloaded here: ' Creating Healthy Built Environments: A Heartful Process '
Presentation at the Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Religion and Culture Creation, Nature and the Built Environment
Director Thompson presented a paper on walking entitled On My Walk: An Exploration of People and Environment Connections through the Act of Walking (6.0MB)
Utzon Lecture
Director Thompson and Professor Capon delivered a lecture entitled Healthy Built Environments = Healthy Cities (6.4MB) . Click here to view the video.
