A/Professor Janet Stanley

Janet Stanley is a Principal Research Fellow - Urban Social Resilience at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, visiting Professor at the University of Hiroshima, Japan, and a Director of Stanley & Co., consultants in sustainable policy. Prior to this, Janet was Chief Research Officer at Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University.

Originally specialising in child protection and family violence, Janet now focuses on the interface between social, environmental and economic issues in climate change and sustainability, across policy, system design, and at community levels. This work particularly focuses on people experiencing social exclusion and disadvantage. Research fields include transport, land use, the 20 minute city, and urban planning, social policy and climate change, ecosystem services, and the prevention of bushfire arson. Janet has been an advisor to state and federal governments, is on the Board of charitable trust the Mornington Peninsula Foundation, and is a member of other Advisory Committees.

Recent publications:

Stanley, J. (2019) Social perspectives: Transport as if people mattered, in J. Stanley & D. Henshaw (eds.) Research Agenda in Transport Policy,  Edward Elgar, UK, pp. 16-24.

Stanley, J. & Stanley, J. Balbontin, C. & Hensher, D. (2019) Social exclusion: The role of mobility and bridging social capital in regional Australia, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 125, pp. 223-233.

Lucas, K, Akyelken, N., & Stanley, J. (2019) 'Social assessment of transport projects in Global South cities using community perceptions of needs', in, Hickman, R., Mella-Lira, B., Givoni, M., Geurs, K. (eds) Transport, Space and Equity, Edward Elgar, UK.

Brain, P., Stanley, J. & Stanley, J. (2019) 'Melbourne: How big, how fast and at what cost?' MSSI Research Paper, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne.

Stanley, J., Stanley, J. & Gleeson, B. (2019) 'Planning transport to meet the needs of children and young people' in, Hickman, R., Mella-Lira, B., Givoni, M., Geurs, K. (eds) Transport, Space and Equity, Edward Elgar, UK.

Gonzalez-Mathiesen, C., March, A., & Stanley, J. (2019) 'Challenges for wildfire-prone urban-rural interfaces: The case of Melbourne', Urbano, 22(39), pp. 88-105.

Stanley, J. (2018) Social exclusion and land passenger transport in Asia, in Zhang, J. & Feng, C-M, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Transport in Asia, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Perez Barbosa, D., Stanley, J., & Zhang, J. (2018) Social exclusion and the place of urban passenger transport in developing Asian countries, in Zhang, J. & Feng, C-M, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Transport in Asia, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Chikaraishi, M., Stanley, J., Fujiwara, A., & Zhang, J. (2018) Social exclusion and transport in an aging and shrinking society, in Zhang, J. & Feng, C-M, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Transport in Asia, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Read, P. & Stanley, J. (2018) Preventing Wildfires through Community Reporting to Crime Stoppers: 2017 survey, Sixth report to Crime Stoppers Victoria, MSSI, Crime Stoppers Victoria.

March, A. Nogueira de Moraes, L. Riddell, G. A. Stanley, J. van Delden, H. Beilin, R. Maier, H. (2018) Practical and Theoretical Issues - Integrating Urban Planning and Emergency Management, Bushfire and Nature Hazards CRC, Melbourne.

Brain, P., Stanley, J. & Stanley, J. (2018) Making the Most of Opportunities, report to the MAV, Victoria.

Stanley, J. & Stanley J. (2018) The Value of Getting There: Mobility for Stronger Australian Regions, Policy Paper 10, Bus and Coach Industry, Canberra, ACT.

Stanley, J. Stanley J. & Hansen, R. (2017) How Great Cities Happen: Integrating People, Land Use and Transport, Edward Elgar, UK.

Stanley, J. (2017) 'Equity in Recovery', in A. March, & M. Kornakova (Eds.) Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery,  Elsevier, UK, pp. 31-46.

Cao, D., Stanley, J. & Stanley, J. (2017) Indicators of socio-spatial transport disadvantage for inter-island transport planning in rural Philippine communities, Social Inclusion, 5 (4), pp. 116-131.

Stanley, J. & Stanley, J. (2017) The importance of transport for social inclusion, Social Inclusion, 5 (4), pp. 108-115.

Read, P. & Stanley, J. (2017) Community Attitudes Towards Reporting Bushfire Arson to Crime Stoppers Victoria 2012-2015, Crime Stoppers Victoria, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne.