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Laurel Johnson

PhD candidate
0401 901 065
Chamberlain Building (35), Room 516
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Qualifications

  • Master of Built Environment (City and Regional Planning)

Experience

  • Laurel works is an academic at The University of Queensland in the planning program. 
  • She is also the Director of Laurel Johnson Planning, a planning consultancy service.
Featured projects Duration
Missing the Bus: transport disadvantage and social disadvantage in south east Queensland
 2015–2019

Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (6)
Conference Papers (5)
Research Report (1)
Seminar Paper (1)

Book Chapter

Burton, Paul and Johnson, Laurel (2010). Getting on and getting around : Transport, mobility and disadvantage. In Brendan Gleeson and Wendy Steele (Ed.), A climate for growth (pp. 220-237) St Lucia, Queensland, Australia: The University of Queensland Press.

Journal Articles

Johnson, Laurel, Roitman, Sonia, Morgan, Ann and MacLeod, Jason (2017) Challenging the productivity mantra: academic writing with spirit in place. Higher Education Research and Development, . doi:10.1080/07294360.2017.1300140
Pojani, Dorina, Johnson, Laurel, Darchen, Sebastien and Yang, Katie (2016) Learning by doing: employer expectations of planning studio education. Urban Policy and Research, 1-9. doi:10.1080/08111146.2016.1221814
Grant-Smith, Deanna, Osborne, Natalie and Johnson, Laurel (2016) Managing the challenges of combining mobilities of care and commuting: an Australian perspective. Community, Work & Family, 1-10. doi:10.1080/13668803.2016.1202194
Shevellar, Lynda, Johnson, Laurel and Lyons, Kristen (2015) Re-imagining the practices of town, social and community planning in Australia: opportunities for planning in neoliberal policy settings. Australian Planner, 52 4: 266-276. doi:10.1080/07293682.2015.1056816
Johnson, Laurel (2015) Fair Shared Cities: the impact of gender planning in Europe. Urban Policy and Research, 33 3: 378-380. doi:10.1080/08111146.2015.1057911
Grant-Smith, Deanna and Johnson, Laurel (2012) Mapping local solutions to entrenched transport problems: key lessons regarding the use of geographical information technologies in community mapping with disadvantaged communities. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 52 3: 1-17.

Conference Papers

Johnson, Laurel and Roitman, Sonia (2014). The use of public space as an instrument for social inclusion: the case of Aboriginal and asylum seeker residents in Brisbane, Australia. In: World Town Planning Day: Equality in the City: Making Cities Socially Cohesive, On line conference, (). 5-7 November 2014.
Johnson, Laurel and Wyeth, Stephanie (2012). More substance than froth: the role of planning in creating a child and youth friendly community. In: Reinvigorate. Planning Institute of Australia (Qld) Annual Conference, Cairns, QLD, Australia, (). 3-5 October 2012.
Johnson, Laurel and Grant-Smith, Deanna (2012). Out of mind, Out of sight: putting children in their place in urban planning. In: The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference (TASA 2012), Brisbane, Australia, (). 26-29 November 2012.
Grant-Smith, Deanna, Edwards, Peter and Johnson, Laurel (2012). Providing public transport in the child friendly city: Stockholm vs. South East Queensland. In: Murat Balamir, Melih Ersoy and Ela Babalık Sutcliffe, AESOP2012 E-Book of Abstracts. 26th Annual Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP 2012), Ankara, Turkey, (). 11-15 July 2012.
Johnson, Laurel (2005). Big roads, no transport-community mapping for transport improvements. In: State of Australian Cities conference 2005 refereed proceedings and publication details. 2nd State of Australian Cities Conference (SOAC 2005), Griffith Univ., Brisbane, QLD, Australia, (). 30 November-2 December 2005.

Research Report

Walters, Peter, Cheshire, Lynda, Johnson, Laurel and Roitman, Sonia (2014) The many faces of poverty: A month in the life of the Wesley Mission Brisbanes's Emergency Relief Serviece: A report for Wesley Mission Brisbane St Lucia, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland Housing and Urban Studies Research Network (UQ HAUS)

Seminar Paper

Johnson, Laurel (2013). Social values in infrastructure planning and delivery, Continuing Professional Development, Planning Institute of Australia (Qld), Planning Institute of Australia.

Areas of research

UQ Planning