Dr Christopher Standen
PhD
Master of Environmental Management
BSc (Hons.) Physics, computer science
I am a Research Fellow in urban development in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at UNSW Sydney.
I have two core research interests. First, improving decision-making methods and tools used in urban planning (e.g., cost benefit analysis, health impact assessment and environmental impact assessment) - to better account for, and communicate, health and sustainability costs and benefits. Second, embedding health in urban planning/transport education - shifting the focus aways from speed and "...
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Public Health Wales. "Health in local development plans" (2024). $19,000.
CPHCE Research Stream Seed Funding Scheme. "Embedding health into urban planning education" (2023).
NSW Ministry of Health. “NSW Active Transport Health Model Phase 3” (2021).
Healthy Urban Environments Collaboratory Seed Funding Scheme. "Waterloo housing estate redevelopment: Longitudinal assessment/study of residents’ health needs and circumstances (pilot project)" (2020).
University of Sydney Business School Pilot Research Grant. "Looking for Positives: Health, Wellbeing and Active Transport Following a Pandemic" (2020).
Charles Perkins Centre Seed Funding Scheme. “Evaluation of the health impact of new urban motorway infrastructure” (2019).
City of Sydney Environmental Grants Program. “Profiling of George Street cycleway users for a community social marketing program” (2014).
Sydney Local Health District Innovation and Excellence Award: Health Innovation and Research, Highly Commended (2023)
Dean's Citation for Teaching, University of Sydney Business School (2020)
Australian Postgraduate Award Industry Scholarship (2013)
Expert witness
- NSW Parliament Inquiry into the impact of the Rozelle Interchange, May 2024
Consulting
- Health impact assessment for Sydney Metro West project
- Economic Active Transport Project to deliver a best-practice method to cost the health benefits of active transport in NSW
In the media
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The South Sydney Herald, December 13, 2024:
Unlawful footpath narrowing -
Eastside Radio, August 22, 2024:
Sydney traffic chaos -
The Sydney Morning Herald, July 18, 2024:
Rozelle Interchange has taken a toll, but for Sydney transport, the road ahead looks grim -
UNSW Newsroom, July 15, 2024:
Stress, lethargy, congestion: the unhealthy symptoms of Sydney’s transport system -
Radio Skid Row
Parliamentary inquiry into the Rozelle Interchange -
ABC NewsRadio, March 11, 2024:
Health impacts of SUVs -
Yahoo News, February 7, 2024:
$30 per hour SUV parking tax set for Paris – would it work in Australia? -
UNSW Newsroom, January 24, 2024:
Would congestion pricing work in Australia? -
news.com.au, December 7, 2023:
Urban planning expert says Rozelle interchange working as planned, despite chaos and community outrage -
The Sydney Morning Herald, December 6, 2023:
The Rozelle interchange is working exactly as planned -
ABC News, December 5, 2023:
Rozelle Interchange design issues will be a problem for Sydney's future, experts say -
The World Today, ABC Radio National, December 4, 2023:
Urgent changes being made to Australia's newest motorway maze -
The Sydney Morning Herald, March 14, 2022:
Brace yourself Sydney for more transport chaos -
The Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 23, 2019:
The M4 East: so much pain and public expense and for what?, opens in a new window -
The Conversation, May 10, 2018:
Why the need for speed? Transport spending priorities leave city residents worse off, opens in a new window -
The Conversation, Sep 7, 2017:
People take to their bikes when we make it safer and easier for them, opens in a new window -
The Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 18, 2016:
Who’s planning Sydney? Not Lucy Turnbull, as Haberfield shows, opens in a new window -
The Sydney Morning Herald, May 12, 2016:
Sydney needs congestion on its roads so we don't have complete gridlock, opens in a new window
My Teaching
Teaching experience includes:
- Transport policy
- Health impact assessment
- Environmental health
- Supply chain planning/design
- GIS/spatial data analytics
- Quantitative methods for transport/logistics
- Inequalities, inequities and health
- Data science
- Visual data analytics