Amanda Alderton

Amanda Alderton is a PhD Candidate and Research Assistant in the Healthy Liveable Cities Group at the RMIT Centre for Urban Research.

Amanda is working with Dr Hannah Badland in contextualising city ‘liveability’ within a low to middle income country (LMIC) perspective.

Her research interests include liveability, child-friendly cities, participatory geographic information systems, and the associations between the built environment and child health inequities.

Ms Alderton is a current PhD student at RMIT and received a Bachelor of Arts and Honours in history from the University of California, Berkeley.  She has a background in secondary education and worked as a secondary social studies teacher in the United States.

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Projects

NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy, Liveable Communities

2017–2020

The Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy, Liveable and Equitable Communities investigates cost-effective built environment interventions to create healthy, liveable and equitable communities in Australia

News & Blog

News

Five liveability challenges Melbourne and Bangkok must face together

19 August 2019

What can Melbourne and Bangkok learn from each other to improve liveability and wellbeing for their residents?

Publications

Measuring, monitoring and translating urban liveability in Bangkok: Final Research Report

Amanda Alderton, Carl Higgs, Kornsupha Nitvimol, Associate Professor Melanie Davern, Joana Correia, Iain Butterworth, Professor Hannah Badland

An international case study with implications for Australian cities

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