Sarah Foster

Datos Biográficos

ID3582199
NOMBRESarah Foster
NOMBRESSarah
APELLIDOFoster
FIRMAFOSTER S
AFILIACIONESThe University of Western Australia
ORCID0000-0002-8624-4908
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS58
TOTAL DE CITAS304
TOTAL COMO AUTOR58
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1995
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H9

  • Neighbourhood socioeconomic inequalities in mental health

    Open AccessRebecca A Reid, Beiou Zhang et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2026

  • The implementation of climate sensitive urban design features in contemporary Australian apartment buildings

    Open AccessJulian Bolleter, Alex Kleeman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Design2026

    The IPCC affirms that climate change adaptation is now ‘essential and urgent’. However, there is a lack of studies assessing the degree to which apartment buildings in Australia maximize climate responsiveness to hot conditions. In response, this paper explores climate-sensitive urban design features designed to mitigate temperature extremes and examines whether these features are present in apartment buildings in three cities (Perth, Melbourne, …

  • Practitioner Review

    Open AccessJessica E Opie, Everett Waters et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2026

    Attachment theory, with its core concepts, perspectives, and insights developed over the past five decades, is influential for professionals working with young children. However, practitioners face challenges translating attachment theory and research into practical applications. This manifests in attachment myths, theoretical misinterpretations, and inconsistency of application. This state‐of‐the‐art review is authored by 47 attachment researche…

  • Determinants of zero-car and car-owning apartment households

    Open AccessChris De Gruyter, Long T Truong et al.ARTICLETransportation2025

    While much research has explored the determinants of car ownership, there is little understanding of these factors in the context of apartment households, where off-street car parking provision is frequently stipulated by planning requirements and zero-car households are more evident. Drawing on a survey of apartment residents (n = 1316) in three Australian cities, this study aimed to understand the determinants of zero-car and car-owning apartme…

  • Associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and psychological distress among Australian adults

    Rebecca A Reid, Suzanne Mavoa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2025Referencias: 32

    BACKGROUND: Mental disorders contribute substantially to the global burden of disease. The neighbourhood socioeconomic environment is a key determinant of mental health, even after accounting for individual-level socioeconomic factors. However, few longitudinal studies have examined this relationship. This study examined longitudinal associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and psychological distress from three perspectives: …

  • Designed for life

    Open AccessSarah Foster, Alexandra Kleeman et al.ARTICLECities2025Referencias: 2

    The construction of apartments is a key strategy to improve urban sustainability and address housing shortages. However, in Australia and elsewhere, apartments are typically viewed as temporary housing for specific life stages, with apartment residents more likely to relocate than those living in houses. This prospective cohort study examined whether apartment design attributes contributed to residential stability. Residents ( n = 212) in apartme…

  • Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people

    Open AccessCatherine J Crompton, Sarah Foster et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025Referencias: 92

    Autism is clinically defined by social communication deficits, suggesting that autistic people may be less effective at sharing information, particularly with one another. However, recent research indicates that neurotype mismatches, rather than autism itself, degrade information sharing. Here, using the diffusion chain method, we examined information transfer in autistic, non-autistic and mixed-neurotype chains (N = 311), replicating and extendi…

  • Are All Apartments Equal? An Investigation of Contemporary Apartment Design Quality by Neighbourhood-Level Socioeconomic Disadvantage

    Open AccessSarah Foster, Paul Hooper et al.ARTICLEUrban Policy and Research2024

    Rapid increases in apartment construction have ignited concerns about design quality. Lower income populations could be disproportionately impacted by poor design as they are more likely to live in apartments and have fewer resources to mitigate design problems. We examined whether there was a socioeconomic gradient in contemporary apartment design by measuring the implementation of quantifiable policy-specific requirements in buildings (n = 172)…

  • A typological study of the provision and use of communal outdoor space in Australian apartment developments

    Open AccessJulian Bolleter, Paul Hooper et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2024

    There is a consensus that higher-density urban settings need to be accompanied by communal outdoor space (COS) to bolster the well-being of apartment residents. Nonetheless, there is a lack of studies identifying COS types in apartment buildings and systematically assessing the degree to which they provide greenery and are used by residents. In response, this study developed a COS typology for apartment buildings in Australian cities, measured th…

  • Research note

    Open AccessSarah Foster, Alexandra Kleeman et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2024

    Australia’s capital cities have experienced a rapid increase in apartment development over the past decade. The mental wellbeing of apartment residents could be more vulnerable to COVID-19 restrictions due to the unique constraints of apartment buildings and limited access to nature. We examined the relationship between residents’ self-reported view components and wellbeing after Australia’s national six-week lockdown. Residents’ (n = 192) wellbe…

  • The contribution of objective and perceived crime to neighbourhood socio-economic inequity in loneliness

    Open AccessTara Jamalishahni, Melanie Davern et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 18

    Loneliness tends to be more prevalent in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods, yet few studies explore the environmental differences contributing to area-based inequity in loneliness. This study examined how perceived and objective crime contributed to differences in loneliness between advantaged and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The study used cross-sectional data from 3749 individuals aged between 48 and 77 years, residing in 200 neig…

  • Building back healthier? The transformative potential and reality of city planning responses to Covid-19 in Melbourne, Australia

    Open AccessM Lowe, Sarah Bell et al.ARTICLECities2024Referencias: 62

    The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most significant public health and urban planning challenges that cities have faced in recent times. From an evolutionary resilience perspective, the disruption caused by the pandemic was a potential opportunity to create more resilient urban environments that reduce infectious and non-communicable disease risks. This paper examines whether and how city planning policy responses to COVID-19 in Melbourne, Austr…

  • The big squeeze

    Julian Bolleter, William J Grace et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Design2023

    A global challenge concerns reconciling population growth and increasing built infrastructure with foreshore ecosystems that are ‘squeezed’ against a rising sea levels, hampering their ability to deliver life-sustaining ecosystem services. This paper tests established sea-level rise strategies – fortification, accommodation, and retreat – using a city-centre adjacent estuarine case study in Western Australia to understand the implications for for…

  • Research note

    Open AccessAlexandra Kleeman, Paul Hooper et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2023

  • A state-wide implementation of a whole of hospital sepsis pathway with a mortality based cost-effectiveness analysis from a healthcare sector perspective

    Open AccessNatasha Brusco, Kelly Sykes et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    With global estimates of 15 million cases of sepsis annually, together with a 24% in-hospital mortality rate, this condition comes at a high cost to both the patient and to the health services delivering care. This translational research determined the cost-effectiveness of state-wide implementation of a whole of hospital Sepsis Pathway in reducing mortality and/or hospital admission costs from a healthcare sector perspective, and report the cost…

  • The Perspectives of Senior Researchers in Applied Disciplines on the Current State of Developmental Attachment Research

    Open AccessAlissa Mann, Megan M Thompson et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2023

    Based on interviews with leading researchers and researcher-clinicians in fields allied to attachment research, this paper describes participants’ perceptions of contemporary attachment research in the developmental tradition. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 13 research leaders in applied disciplines cognate to attachment research. Participants perceived attachment research as having played a foundational role for devel…

  • Neighbourhood socio-economic disadvantage and loneliness

    Open AccessTara Jamalishahni, Gavin Turrell et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Disadvantaged areas experience higher levels of loneliness than advantaged areas, though studies rarely identify environmental determinants of neighbourhood inequity in loneliness. We studied the contribution of the quantity and quality of green space to neighbourhood inequity in loneliness in three buffer sizes (400 m, 800 m, 1600 m), using cross-sectional data from 3778 individuals aged 48-77 years old living in 200 neighbourhoods in Brisbane, …

  • Associations between changes in crime and changes in walking for transport with effect measure modification by gender

    Open AccessRebecca A Reid, Sarah Foster et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 2

    Walking for transport is a potential solution to increasing physical activity in mid to older aged adults however neighbourhood crime may be a barrier. Using data from the How Areas in Brisbane Influence HealTh and AcTivity (HABITAT) study 2007-2016, this study examined associations between changes in crime (perceived crime and objectively measured crime) and changes in transport walking, and whether this association differed by gender. Fixed eff…

  • Do apartment residents have enough car parking? An empirical assessment of car parking adequacy in Australian cities

    Open AccessChris De Gruyter, Paul Hooper et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transport Geography2023Referencias: 4

    In planning new apartment developments, off-street car parking provision is frequently raised as a key concern. However, there is little understanding of the adequacy of off-street car parking for individual apartment households. Drawing on a survey of apartment residents in Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney (n = 1316), this research assesses the adequacy of off-street car parking provision for apartment households and provides an understanding of fac…

  • Denser habitats

    Open AccessSarah Foster, Billie Giles-Corti et al.ARTICLECities2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 55

    Higher residential densities are fundamental to creating sustainable, liveable and healthy neighbourhoods; however, community resistance to densification remains a barrier to infill development. We examined the relationship between residential density and the anticipated benefits and (feared) harms that trigger opposition using longitudinal data collected from mid-age adults (n = 3028) in Brisbane, Australia (2007–2016). Participants completed a …

  • The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents' neighbouring and loneliness

    Open AccessAlexandra Kleeman, Billie Giles-Corti et al.ARTICLECities2023Citada por: 3Referencias: 56

  • Projected Extreme Heat Stress in Northern Australia and the Implications for Development Policy

    Julian Bolleter, William J Grace et al.ARTICLEPlanning Practice and Research2022

    Heat stress, resulting from elevated heat and absolute humidity associated with climate change, will increasingly occur in the tropics and parts of the mid-latitudes and could threaten the liveability and viability of many regions. Concomitant with predictions of increased heat stress in northern Australia, the Australian Government seeks to boost the population in northern Australia substantially. This paper assesses the heat stress-related wet-…

  • Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Julian Bolleter, Nicole Edwards et al.ARTICLEPlanning Practice and Research2022

    By the end of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had exceeded 83 million cases worldwide. Given the shared origins of planning and public health, new living and social conditions have prompted an interest in how urban planning could respond to the pandemic’s associated implications. In 2020, a national online survey Plan My Australia was conducted among planning experts (n = 161), in part, to identify new challenges facing urban planning and design due …

  • Grand designs for design policy

    Open AccessSarah Foster, Paul Hooper et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    Comprehensive apartment design policies have been legislated by Australian state governments to address concerns about poor design in residential buildings. These policies aim to improve apartment design and promote good health. This study examined whether: (1) residents living in apartments that implemented more minimum design requirements perceived better apartment design and amenity; and (2) increased implementation of minimum requirements and…

  • A new Australian dream? Exploring associations between apartment design attributes and housing satisfaction in three Australian cities

    Open AccessAlexandra Kleeman, Paul Hooper et al.ARTICLECities2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 53