2021 Publications Performance
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Mean Field Weighted Citation Impact of Monash Outputs: 1.47
Number of Monash Research Outputs: 244
Monash Urban Lab
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The Monash Urban Lab distinguishes itself through its unique integration of practice-based design and urban planning research. The Lab combines multi-scalar architectural design investigations with policy studies focussed on transitioning to sustainable and equitable urban environments and communities at city and regional scales. Research focuses on three areas of investigation: Sustainable and Inclusive Cities, Urban Infrastructure Systems, and Visualising Urban Futures.
Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) Program
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The Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) program is researching how innovative water sensitive infrastructure can improve health, wellbeing, and water management across urban informal settlements in Indonesia and Fiji.
In 2021 RISE embraced the new operating environment that COVID-19 has created, and used it to show that breaking down structural inequalities of international collaboration can lead to new innovations and efficiencies, and that research and development programs can be stronger because of it.
The program's accelerated transition to a more strongly locally led model is giving greater agency to RISE research and implementation partners and creating new opportunities, such as establishing state-of-the-art PCR-based pathogen detection capacity at the RISE laboratories hosted at Hasanuddin University and Fiji National University, and instituting an ISO9001 quality management system across the RISE international research platform.
Monash Art Design and Architecture
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Monash Art, Design and Architecture’s research strives to enrich the human experience through transformational design and visual practice. Creative and critical research empowers us to reimagine the needs, challenges and aspirations of cities and drive meaningful change. Working with diverse communities and cultures, and across constructed and ecological environments, MADA's research – showcased in its R:ADAR digital publication – helps to propel us all towards greater sustainability, understanding and equity.
Net Zero Precincts
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Net Zero Precincts is an ARC Linkage funded project, and part of Monash's Net Zero Initiative, that aims to help cities and urban regions reach net zero emissions. It is bringing together a new approach to transition management by using design anthropology to engage with the precinct community and consider their lived experiences. Net Zero Precincts aims to co-create and envision collective and shared pathways to net zero precinct futures which are aligned with the precinct community’s everyday social, political and experiential realities and expectations. In collaboration with a cross-Monash interdisciplinary team and partners from industry, academia and the community, the project is using Monash’s own Clayton Campus and the Monash Technology Precincts as a ‘living laboratory’ to run experiments that can help us accelerate the transition to net zero emissions cities.
Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research Group
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The Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research Group aims to make active and sustainable modes of transport, such as bike riding and walking, the leading modes of travel of the future, generating substantial gains in population and environmental health. It brings together experts in injury prevention, road safety, urban and transport planning, public health, and engineering.
The Australian Research Council funded Cycled Study will develop a platform to model the number of cyclists on each road in a city. This will address significant knowledge gaps in cycling safety, identify areas in which we need enhanced cycling infrastructure and enable the evaluation of the effectiveness of existing infrastructure. Overall, the study anticipates the use of these data will lead to increased cycling participation, enhanced safety, and improved infrastructure planning, thereby resulting in substantial gains in population and environmental health.