ProfessorLouise Johnson

Honorary Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Honorary Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 522 73375 (Work)
  • Off-Campus (Home)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Australian regional restructuring and its human impacts and responses

Post-colonial planning

Building better suburbs

Knowledge Areas
Research areas:

Gendering spaces and Feminist Geography; Regional restructuring and its social
impacts; Post-colonial planning; Changing nature of the Australian suburb; Affordable housing

Teaching areas:

Australian cultural history and geography; Planning theory and history

Projects
Post-colonial planning - a book project to rewrite the history, practice and
theory of Australian planning with Indigenous issues at the centre. Co-
authoring with Dr Sue Jackson and Dr Libby Porter.

Global suburbs project - in collaboration with the CITY Institute, York
University, Toronto. An international comparision of Australian suburbs
historically and as they are developing now

Building better suburbs - for the City of Wyndham

Turning lives around 180o - an evaluatuion of a training and work placement
project for Northern Futures in Geelong

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Revitalising Geelong: Recipes for success. Remaining challenges.
    11 May 2020 - 10 Aug 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Louise Johnson
    Committee for Geelong Ltd - CONTR2020/00765 - $29,835.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Family and child friendly design: Stage 2
    3 Mar 2020 - 26 Jun 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Environment Land Water and Planning - $48,271.82
  • GRANT
    Homes for 'Grey Nesters': Social integration of a micro-village of small houses supporting community wellbeing in Geelong
    13 May 2019 - 16 Jul 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    Geelong Community Foundation Grant - Research - ABN 41659735441 - $40,000.00
  • GRANT
    Micro-village Phase 1
    25 Mar 2019 - 9 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation - General Grants - $50,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Second Cities in Australia
    17 Oct 2018 - 28 Feb 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Johnson L,
    • Reeves A,
    • Trevarthen C
    Committee for Geelong Ltd - $70,180.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Economic Independence and Social Inclusion? Evaluating the effectiveness of Northern Futures 2007-2015
    4 Jun 2015 - 31 Jan 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Louise Johnson
    Norlane Community Centre - Northern Futures - $33,520.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Cotton On - Turning lives around 180o An evaluation
    30 Apr 2015 - 1 May 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Louise Johnson
    Committee for Geelong - Northern Futures - $6,000.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Training for a new (Northern) Future
    1 Mar 2012 - 31 Mar 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Louise Johnson
    Committee for Geelong - Northern Futures - $6,000.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Foundational principles and approaches to building better suburbs (Wyndham City Council)
    1 Feb 2012 - 31 Dec 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    Wyndham City Council - $25,000.00
  • GRANT
    G21 Healthy Region Program - Business Plan
    19 Jun 2007 - 30 Nov 2007
    People funded by this grant:
    • Butterworth I,
    • Johnson L,
    • Kerkin K,
    • Austin S
    G21 Grant - Research - Geelong Region Alliance - $35,524.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Landscape and Memory: the West Coast of Victoria
    1 Jul 2004 - 30 Jun 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Srivastava S,
    • Johnson L,
    • Meehan M,
    • Devlin-Glass F,
    • Bruyn DD
    ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 2 APAI - LP0455658 - $37,926.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Landscape and Memory: the West Coast of Victoria
    1 Jul 2004 - 30 Jun 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Srivastava S,
    • Johnson L,
    • Meehan M,
    • Devlin-Glass F,
    • Bruyn DD
    Experimenta - $7,500.00