Career highlights
2011 winner of the Australia-International Medal by the Council of the Institute of Australian Geographers
This prestigious medal is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions by Australian geographers to the advancement of Geography world-wide. No more than one medal is awarded each year and it is a significant professional acknowledgement of my contribution to Geography.
Promotion in 2012 to Professor of Australian Studies, Deakin University
Research interests
Australian regional restructuring and its human impacts and responses
Post-colonial planning
Building better suburbs
ARC on "Quantifying and qualifying cultural capital in one regional centre" (2000-2003)
Special Editions of Gender, Place and Culture on "Savouring the Kitchen" 2006
Book in preparation:
Planning Indigenous Australia - New Perspectives
Teaching interests
Australian Studies; Urban theory, history, policy and planning; Human Geography
Units taught
AIA 104 Australian Identities A: Indigenous and Multicultural
AIA 105 Visions of Australia: Time and Place from 1770-2010
AIX 290/390 Australia Today
AIA 718 Planning history, theory and current issues
Knowledge areas
Research areas:
Gendering spaces and Feminist Geography; Regional restructuring and its social impacts; Post-colonial planning; Changing nature of the Australian suburb
Teaching areas:
Austtralian cultural history and geography; Planniing theory and history
Expertise
- Urban/suburban planning and development
Research groups
Co-Convenor (with Professor Linda Hancock) of the "Sustainable Communities and Regions" research cluster within the Alfred Deakin Research Institute
Convenor of the "Planning Indigenous Australia" research and book writing group (with colleagues from CSIRO and Monash University)
Awards
2011 winner of the Australia-International Medal by the Council of the Institute of Australian Geographers
This prestigious medal is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions by Australian geographers to the advancement of Geography world-wide. No more than one medal is awarded each year and it is a significant professional acknowledgement of my contribution to Geography.
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
Publications
No publications found
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Landscape and Memory: the West Coast of Victoria
Prof Sanjay Srivastava, Prof Louise Johnson, Prof Michael Meehan, A/Prof Frances Devlin-Glass, A/Prof Dirk De Bruyn
ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 2 APAI
- 2007: $12,813
- 2006: $25,113
Other Public Sector Funding
G21 Healthy Region Program - Business Plan
Dr Iain Butterworth, Prof Louise Johnson, Dr Kate Kerkin, Ms Sandy Austin
G21 Grant - Research - Geelong Region Alliance
- 2008: $5,684
- 2007: $29,840
Training for a new (Northern) Future
Prof Louise Johnson
Committee for Geelong - Northern Futures
- 2012: $6,000
Foundational principles and approaches to building better suburbs (Wyndham City Council)
Prof Louise Johnson, A/Prof Fiona Andrews, A/Prof Phil Connors, Prof Hisham Elkadi, Dr John Rollo, Dr Ian Warren
Wyndham City Council
- 2012: $25,000
Cotton On - Turning lives around 180o An evaluation
Prof Louise Johnson
Committee for Geelong - Northern Futures
- 2015: $6,000
Family and child friendly design: Stage 2
A/Prof Fiona Andrews, Dr Elyse Warner, Prof Louise Johnson, Prof Richard Tucker
Department of Environment Land Water and Planning
- 2021: $4,401
- 2020: $43,870
Industry and Other Funding
Landscape and Memory: the West Coast of Victoria
Prof Sanjay Srivastava, Prof Louise Johnson, Prof Michael Meehan, A/Prof Frances Devlin-Glass, A/Prof Dirk De Bruyn
Experimenta
- 2007: $2,500
- 2006: $5,000
Economic Independence and Social Inclusion? Evaluating the effectiveness of Northern Futures 2007-2015
Prof Louise Johnson
Norlane Community Centre - Northern Futures
- 2015: $33,520
Second Cities in Australia
Prof Andrew Reeves, Prof Louise Johnson, Ms Cora Trevarthen
Committee for Geelong Ltd
- 2019: $36,065
- 2018: $17,540
Micro-village Phase 1
Prof Richard Tucker, A/Prof Fiona Andrews, Prof Louise Johnson, Dr Nicole Johnston, A/Prof Ursula De Jong, Ms Fab Michaux, Prof Mirjana Lozanovska
Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation - General Grants
- 2019: $50,000
Homes for 'Grey Nesters': Social integration of a micro-village of small houses supporting community wellbeing in Geelong
A/Prof Fiona Andrews, A/Prof Ursula De Jong, Prof Richard Tucker, Prof Louise Johnson, Dr Elyse Warner
Geelong Community Foundation Grant - Research - ABN 41659735441
- 2019: $40,000
Revitalising Geelong: Recipes for success. Remaining challenges.
Prof Louise Johnson
Committee for Geelong Ltd
- 2020: $29,835
Supervisions
Caroline Lucy Denigan
Thesis entitled: Women's Home-made Houses: Sex, Gender and Self-build Housing in Australia 1970-2014
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Beth Brough
Thesis entitled: Jungian Psychology and the Deepening of Spirituality
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Eleanor Stretch
Thesis entitled: Using Site as the Medium of Image-Making at Tower Hill
Master of Arts, School of Contemporary Arts
Deanne Gilson
Thesis entitled: White Haze, Black Gaze: Redefining Aboriginal Women's Business through Contemporary Art
Doctor of Philosophy, NIKERI Institute
Simon Grennan
Thesis entitled: Landscape, Painting, and Consciousness
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Suresh Joshi
Thesis entitled: Understanding health behaviour trajectories of immigrants in Australia: a longitudinal investigation
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ruth Lee
Thesis entitled: Mary De Garis: Progressivism, Early Feminism and Medical Reform
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Atchara Sakrajai
Thesis entitled: Non-formal Education for Women Workers in Industry
Doctor of Education, School of Education
Jacqueline Sundbery
Thesis entitled: Culture Clash: Artistic Production and the School Environment
Master of Arts, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Joseph Hajdu
Thesis entitled: Japanese Investment on the Gold Coast
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Australian & International Studies
Annabel Celia Biles
Thesis entitled: 'LANDSCAPE AS TEXT' - INTERPRETING LANDSCAPE IN COLONIAL WRITINGS ON FRENCH INDOCHINA.
Master of Arts, School of Australian & International Studies