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Personal profile
Biography
Dr Paula Hooper is a Healthway Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) within the School of Design at the University of Western Australia.
Her multidisciplinary research work has studied the impact of the built environment and urban design on health and wellbeing and has had a strong focus on policy-relevance and research-translation, for which she has won numerous planning industry-based awards.
Her current Healthway Research Fellowship will see her developing, implementing and evaluating an evidence-based health impact planning support system to assist in the design and creation of healthy liveable communities.
Paula is highly skilled in spatial analytics and the use of geographic informations systems and the development of measurement methods of urban design features and public open space.
Industry keywords
- Built Environment
- Health
- Environmental
Research expertise keywords
- Urban Planning
- Public health
- Physical activity promotion
- Physical activity and obesity
- Health and the built environment
- Health promotion evaluation
- Health promotion
- Geographic information systems (GIS)
- Planning theory and professional practice
- Geography
- Spatial Analysis
- Spatial statistics
- Epidemiological methods
- Evaluation
- Policy evaluation
- Urban analytics
- Planning support systems
- Public participatory GIS
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Research output
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A threatened ecological community: research advances and priorities for Banksia woodlands
Ritchie, A. L., Svejcar, L. N., Ayre, B. M., Bolleter, J., Brace, A., Craig, M. D., Davis, B., Davis, R. A., van Etten, E. J. B., Fontaine, J. B., Fowler, W. M., Froend, R. H., Groom, C., Hardy, G. E. S. J., Hooper, P., Hopkins, A. J. M., Hughes, M., Krauss, S. L., Leopold, M., Miller, B. P. & 9 others, , Mar 2021, In : Australian Journal of Botany. 69, 2, p. 53-84 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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Revisiting the Australian Government’s Growth Centres program 1972–1975
Bolleter, J., Freestone, R., Cameron, R., Wilkinson III, G. & Hooper, P., 23 Feb 2021, In : Planning Perspectives.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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The importance of place-based narrative in suburban forest planning
Bolleter, J. & Hooper, P., 2021, In : Journal of Urban Design. 26, 2, p. 209-234Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Do Changes in the Local Food Environment Within New Residential Developments Influence the Diets of Residents? Longitudinal Results from RESIDE
Bivoltsis, A., Trapp, G., Knuiman, M., Hooper, P. & Ambrosini, G., 2 Sep 2020, In : International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17, 18, p. 1-14Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Food Outlets Dietary Risk (FODR) assessment tool: study protocol for assessing the public health nutrition risks of community food environments
Pulker, C. E., Trapp, G. S. A., Fallows, M., Hooper, P., McKee, H. & Pollard, C. M., Dec 2020, In : Nutrition Journal. 19, 1, 122.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Datasets
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PLAWA Community Facility Guidelines 2020 Mapping Portal for Perth and Peel
Hooper, P. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, Aug 2020
DOI: 10.26182/5f48756e3e9a7, https://uwa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=057e427ac6054d1d8a7bdefdfc066c10
Dataset
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Public Open Space Tool
Hooper, P. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 1 Jan 2012
DOI: 10.26182/5f47217418828, https://www.postool.com.au
Dataset
Projects
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Map My Say - An innovative participatory mapping tool for TOD evaluation
Hooper, P., Bolleter, J., Foster, S., London, G., Biermann, S. & Olaru, D.
Australian Research Council, DevelopmentWA, WA Department for Communities, Western Australian Planning Commission
1/11/20 → 31/10/23
Project: Research
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Optimising Apartment Design Policy to Equitably Enhance Mental Health
Hooper, P., Foster, S., Bolleter, J., Maitland, C. & Duckworth, A.
WA Health Promotion Foundation Healthway
8/02/19 → 30/09/21
Project: Research
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Exploratory Research Grant - How healthy (or unhealthy) is the food environment around Perth schools?
Trapp, G., Hooper, P., Thornton, L., Rosenberg, M., Christian, H., Foster, S. & Howard, J.
WA Health Promotion Foundation Healthway
3/09/18 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
Prizes
Activities
- 1 Collaboration on community projects
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Hamilton Hill senior high school redevelopment - local structure plan development community engagement
Paula Hooper (Speaker)
Sep 2017 → Nov 2017Activity: Service and engagement › Collaboration on community projects