STAFF PROFILE
Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti
Position:
ECP Director, Urban Futures
College / Portfolio:
Research Capability
School / Department:
Enabling Capability Platforms
Phone:
99253823
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
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Research supervision
- Giles-Corti, B.,Gunn, L.,Hooper, P.,Boulange, C.,Zapata-Diomedi, B.,Pettit, C.,Foster, S. (2019). Built environment and physical activity In: Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning, Springer, Cham, Switzerland
- Browne, G.,Davern, M.,Giles-Corti, B. (2019). 'Punching above their weight': a qualitative examination of local governments' organisational efficacy to improve the social determinants of health In: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 43, 81 - 87
- Zapata-Diomedi, B.,Boulange, C.,Giles-Corti, B.,Phelan, K.,Washington, S.,Veerman, J.,Gunn, L. (2019). Physical activity-related health and economic benefits of building walkable neighbourhoods: A modelled comparison between brownfield and greenfield developments In: International Journal of Behavioural Nutritian and Physical Activity, 16, 1 - 12
- Jeffrey, D.,Boulange, C.,Giles-Corti, B.,Washington, S.,Gunn, L. (2019). Using walkability measures to identify train stations with the potential to become transit oriented developments located in walkable neighbourhoods In: Journal of Transport Geography, 76, 221 - 231
- Procter, D.,Page, A.,Cooper, A.,Giles-Corti, B., et al, . (2019). An Open-Source Tool To Identify Active Travel From Hip-Worn Accelerometer, Gps And Gis Data In: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 15, 1 - 10
- Giles-Corti, B.,Lowe, M.,Arundel, J. (2019). Achieving the SDGs: Evaluating indicators to be used to benchmark and monitor progress towards creating healthy and sustainable cities In: Health Policy, , 1 - 10
- Foster, S.,Hooper, P.,Turrell, G.,Burton, N.,Brown, W.,Giles-Corti, B.,Rachele, J. (2019). Safe Habitats: Does the Association Between Neighborhood Crime and Walking Differ by Neighborhood Disadvantage? In: Environment and Behavior, , 1 - 37
- Higgs, C.,Badland, H.,Simons, K.,Knibbs, L.,Giles-Corti, W. (2019). The Urban Liveability Index: Developing a policy-relevant urban liveability composite measure and evaluating associations with transport mode choice In: International Journal of Health Geographics, 18, 1 - 25
- Mavoa, S.,Eagleson, S.,Badland, H.,Gunn, L.,Boulange, C.,Stewart, J.,Giles-Corti, B. (2018). Identifying appropriate land-use mix measures for use in a national walkability index In: Journal of Transport and Land Use, 11, 681 - 700
- Turrell, G.,Hewitt, B.,Rachele, J.,Giles-Corti, B.,Busija, L.,Brown, W. (2018). Do Active Modes Of Transport Cause Lower Body Mass Index? Findings From The Habitat Longitudinal Study In: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 72, 294 - 301
- Benchmarking, monitoring, modelling and valuing the healthy liveable city (Project 1.3). Administered by The Sax Institute. Funded by: NHMRC Partnership Centres for Better Health from (2018 to 2023)
- The Kids in Communities Study: national investigation of community level effects on children's developmental outcomes (Administered by The University of Melbourne). Funded by: ARC Linkage Grant 2013 from (2018 to 2018)
- Designing Cities that Support Healthy Child Development (Administered by Murdoch Children's Research Institute). Funded by: Bernard van Leer Foundation Research Grant from (2018 to 2019)
- National Liveability Project - Post Doctoral Research Fellow. Funded by: NHMRC Contract Grant Pre-2014 from (2017 to 2018)
- Alexandra Kleeman - AHURI Limited Postgraduate Top-up Scholarship. Funded by: AHURI Scholarships (CAT 3) from (2017 to 2020)
Urban design and urban planning and health outcomes. Our team links geospatial data with health and travel-related survey data to study relationships with the built environment; and to evaluate urban planning policies.
2 PhD Current Supervisions