Emma Baker

Professor Emma Baker

Professor

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Emma Baker is Professor of Housing Research at the University of Adelaide where she leads the Housing and Healthy Cities Research Group and is Director of the Stretton Institute’s ‘Building a City for the Future’ research program.

Emma's research examines the cumulative effects of housing, environmental, locational and socioeconomic vulnerabilities on wellbeing, with particular interests in utilising large longitudinal, administrative datasets to create knowledge that responds to real policy problems.

Professor Baker currently leads the development, collection and public provision of the Australian Rental Housing Conditions Data infrastructure, the largest public access dataset describing Australian rental housing quality and conditions. She has a track record of successful collaboration with industry, government and non-government organisations. Recent academic and policy publications include commissioned policy background papers for the planning and housing strategies of South Australia, a big data analysis of long run housing trajectories in Australia, an analysis of the effects of cold housing on individual health, and papers analysing the influence of multiple housing problems on health and wellbeing.

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  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2014 Associate Professor University of Adelaide

  • Awards and Achievements
    Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
    2017 Award Executive Deans Commendation Award for Research — — —
    2016 Award Executive Deans Award for Excellence in Research — — —
    2015 Award 2015 Executive Deans Award for Excellence in Research University of Adelaide Australia —
    2015 Award 2015 Berry award for Excellence in Housing Research — Australia —
    2014 Award Executive Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Research University of Adelaide Australia —
    2011 Nomination VicHealth Award for outstanding achievements and innovative contributions to health promotion VicHealth Australia —
    2006 Award Australian Housing Minister’s Early Career Researcher Award — Australia —

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    1998 - 2002 University of Adelaide Australia PhD

  • Research Interests
    Geospatial Information Systems Housing Markets, Development, Management

Recent Grant Funding 

Baker E, Beer, A, Bentley, et al. An Australian Rental Housing Conditions Data Infrastructure, ARC LIEF PROJECT

Bentley R, Baker E, Reeves A, Ronald R, Closing the housing gap: A spotlight on intergenerational inequalities, ARC DISCOVERY PROJECT

Baker E, Leishman C, Van Den Hengel A, Lester, L, Bentley R, Give me the child and I’ll show you the adult: Machine Learning answers to big social problems, INTERDISCIPLINARY GRANT

Baker, E, Beer, A, Zillante, G, London, K, Bentley, R, Hulse, K, Pawson, H,, Randolph, B, Ridley, Stone, W, An Australian Housing Condition Data Infrastructure, ARC LIEF PROJECT

Baker, E, Improving the health and wellbeing of poorly housed Australians: understanding and responding to multiple housing deficit, ARC FUTURE FELLOWSHIP.

Rowley S; Leishman C; Baker E; Lester L; Bentley R, Modelling housing need in Australia to 2025, AHURI RESEARCH GRANT

Baker, E, Beer, A, Bentley, R, Pevalin, D, Whitehead, C ,Pathways to Health and Wellbeing through Housing: A new Causal Understanding of Relationships, Processes and Interventions.ARC DISCOVERY PROJECT.

 

    Recent teaching

    2019, 2020 Program Director, Master of Planning

    2017 - 2019 Planning Theory and Practice

    2016, Architecture and Planning Development Studio, University of Adelaide.

    2014, Convenor and lecturer, Geographic Information Systems, University of Adelaide.

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    • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
      Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
      2020 Principal Supervisor Housing in the 21st Century: a discrimination lens Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Laura James
      2019 Principal Supervisor Radical Housing Renovators and Rule Makers: the Early Days of Rebellious Retrotting Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Charmaine Thredgold
      2017 Principal Supervisor Understanding the role of green space in cities: The contribution of the Adelaide Park Lands Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr James William Daly

    • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
      Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
      2013 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Consolidating the Australian Dream: Reconfiguring the Multi-Unit Housing Network Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Jasmine Samantha Palmer

    • Other Supervision Activities
      Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
      2009 - 2011 Principal Supervisor Precarious housing, psychological wellbeing and mobility Flinders University of South Australia — Doctorate Full Time Janet Adkins
      2006 - 2012 Co-Supervisor Psychology and sociology of adjustment to retrenchment in the automotive industry Flinders University of South Australia — Doctorate Full Time Hans (Johannes) Pieters
      2005 - 2008 Co-Supervisor Growing old in non-metropolitan regions: Intentions and realities from South Australia and Northern Ireland Flinders University of South Australia — Doctorate — Amity James
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    • Board Memberships
      Date Role Board name Institution name Country
      2019 - ongoing Board Member Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity Australia
      2014 - ongoing Member Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning Reference Committee University of Adelaide Australia

    • Memberships
      Date Role Membership Country
      2000 - ongoing Member European Network of Housing Researchers Netherlands

    • Offices Held
      Date Office Name Institution Country
      2020 - ongoing Theme Director, Building a City for the Future Stretton Institute, University of Adelaide Australia
      2016 - ongoing Coordinator, Residential Context of Health Working Group European Network of Housing Researchers Sweden
    • Position: Professor
    • Phone: 83130683
    • Email: emma.baker@adelaide.edu.au
    • Fax: 8313 4377
    • Campus: North Terrace
    • Building: Horace Lamb, floor 5
    • Room: 5 33
    • Org Unit: School of Architecture & Built Environment
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