Annette Kroen

Dr. Annette Kroen

Senior Research Fellow

Details

  • College: Research & Innovation Capability
  • Department: Research & Innovation Capability
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • annette.kroen@rmit.edu.au

About

Dr Annette Kroen is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Research. She is an urban and regional planner and her research explores suburban growth areas, transport choice, social connectedness, resilience and the relation between disaster management and planning policy.

Annette's wider research interests span the areas of outer suburban development, metropolitan governance, community engagement and development, and integrated transport and land use planning.

Currently, Annette works on projects investigating natural hazards and resilience in complex urban systems; social connectedness in communities on the urban fringe; and the long-term impacts of place-making and innovation initiatives in a master-planned estate. Previous projects include work on housing policy, settlement planning, and disaster prevention, preparedness and response; resilience planning; early provision of transport options in new suburbs; benefit evaluation of investment in infrastructure in outer suburban growth areas; smart and sustainable cities; and National Urban Policy.

Annette has worked on several research projects where different industry partners were involved, such as State Government agencies, Local Government, developers and NGOs. She has worked as a transport and spatial policy analyst within the Victorian State Government, and in private practice as a facilitator and consultant on a range of planning related projects.

Research fields

  • 3304 Urban and regional planning
  • 410103 Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation
  • 420606 Social determinants of health
  • 350906 Public transport
  • 440612 Urban geography
  • 440714 Urban policy

UN sustainable development goals

  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 17 Partnerships for the Goals
  • 13 Climate Action
  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 15 Life on Land

Supervisor projects

  • Built environments and dehumanization
  • 17 Jan 2024
  • Transporting Actor Networks: Examining the Role of Human and Non-human Actors in the Transfer of Bus Rapid Transit to Lahore, Pakistan
  • 23 Sep 2019

Research interests

Outer suburban development, metropolitan governance, community engagement, integrated transport and land use planning; benefits of social infrastructure; urban resilience; and the relation between disaster management and planning policy.
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.