Emma Baker

NHMRC Research Fellow

Contact Details Office: Room 331 Social Sciences North Postal: School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100,Adelaide SA 5001, Australia Email: emma.baker@flinders.edu.au Phone: (08) 8201 2287 (in Australia); (618) 8201 2287 (outside Australia) Fax: (08) 8201 3521 (in Australia); (618) 8201 3521 (outside Australia)

Qualifications

• PhD (Adel)
• BA (Hons) (Adel)

Position Held

• Research Fellow

Positions Held Prior to Flinders University

• Lecturer GEOG3013 Geographic Information Systems
• Research Consultant, National Key Centre for the Social Applications of GIS, Adelaide University

Research Areas

• Housing and Health
• Housing and Urban Policy
• Wellbeing and Residential Satisfaction
• Spatial Decision Support Systems and GIS
• Residential Mobility

Recent Scholarly Activities

• Refereed Journal Articles:

  Baker, Emma (2008) Improving Outcomes of Forced Residential Relocation: The Development of an Australian Tenants' Spatial Decision Support System, Urban Studies, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 1712-1728.
  
  Baker, E. and Tually, S. (2008) Women, Health and Housing Assistance: Implications in an Emerging Era of Housing Provision, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 43,1, 123-138.

  Baker, E. and Arthurson, K. (2007) Housing, Place or Social Networks: What’s more important for Relocating Tenants?, Australian Planner, 44,4, pp. 29-35.
  
  Baker, E. and Beer, A .(2007) Developing a workable model of housing need: Applying geographical concepts and techniques to a problem of public policy, Applied Geography. 27, 3-4, pp. 165-180.

• Journal Articles:
  
  Baker, E. and Arthurson, K. (2008) Housing, Place or Social Networks: What’s more important for Relocating Tenants?, HousingWorks, 6, 3, pp. 36 – 44.

• Conference Papers:

  Baker, E. and Bentley, R. 2008, Changing House, Changing Health? Exploring Health Effects of Housing in Two Residential Contexts, paper presented to the European Network of Housing Researchers Conference, Residential Context of Health Working Group, Dublin, July 2008.

  Bentley R. and Baker E. 2008, Understanding the Health Effects of Housing: An Australian Mobility Approach, paper presented to the Australasian Housing Researchers Conference, Melbourne, June 2008.
  
  Flood, J and Baker, E. 2008, Housing implications of social, spatial and structural change, paper presented to the Australasian Housing Researchers Conference.
  
  Slatter, M,  Baker, E, Petrie, L and Button, E. 2008, When ignorance is bliss? Community title and purchasers of ‘affordable’ housing, paper presented to the Australasian Housing Researchers Conference.

  Baker, E. 2007, Housing and Health: Examining the Impacts of Generational Housing Reform on Vulnerable Urban Households, State of Australian Cities, Adelaide, November .

  Baker, E. 2007, Generational Reform: The Health Implications of Housing Change, paper presented to the European Network of Housing Researchers Conference, Rotterdam.

  Baker, E.L; Arthurson, K 2006, Social Networks, Housing Quality or Residential Environment: What's More Important for the Wellbeing of Relocating Tenants. ENHR 06: Housing in an Expanding Europe, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

  Baker, E.L. 2006, Public Tenant Relocation: The Development of a Tenant's Spatial Decision Systems (SDSS). Australasian Housing Researchers Conference 2006, Adelaide, SA.
  
  Baker E. and Beer, A. 2006, “Developing a Workable Model of Housing Need: Applying Geographical Concepts and Techniques to a Problem of Public Policy” Paper presented to the ARC Research Network on Spatially Integrated Social Sciences National Conference, Melbourne.

  Beer A. and Baker E. 2006, “Developing a workable model of housing need: Applying geographical concepts and techniques to a problem of public policy”, paper presented to the International Geographical Union Conference 2006, Brisbane.

  Baker E. 2000, Public Housing Relocation: A Re-examination and Proposed Approach, Paper presented to the European Network of Housing Researchers Conference Gavle, Sweden.

• Reports:

  Slatter M, Baker E, Petrie L, and Button E, 2008, Community Titles and Affordability, Report to the Affordable Housing Innovations Unit, South Australian Department for Families and Communities.
  
  Baker, EL; Beer, AP; Paris, C 2006. The Development of a Methodology that Provides Indices to Measure and Monitor Housing Needs at Various Spatial Scales. Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.

  Beer, AP; Faulkner, DR; Baker, EL 2006. Aspirations and Expectations of Older Age Cohorts in South Australia: Research Report Stage 1 Focus Group Outcomes.

  Spoehr J., Wright P., Baker E., O’Donaghue M. and NIEIR Centre for Labour Research, University of Adelaide, 2002, “Living and Learning: A Profile of Young People, Employment, Education and Training in Northern Adelaide”, Department of Education and Children’s Services, State Government of South Australia.

  Baker EL, Coffee N. and Hugo G. 2001, Suburbanisation vs. Re-urbanisation: Population Distribution Changes in Australian Cities, Australia State of the Environment, Second Technical Paper Series (Human Settlements), Department of Environment and Heritage, Canberra.
  

• Other Publications:
  
  Baker, E, 2002, The Development of a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) to Assist Relocation of Public Housing Tenants from The Parks, South Australia, University of Adelaide Doctoral Thesis.
  http://thesis.library.adelaide.edu.au/public/adt-SUA20031105.001130/index.html

Updated March 2008