Jennifer Kent
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 283541 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jennifer Kent |
| NOMBRES | Jennifer |
| APELLIDO | Kent |
| FIRMA | KENT J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3051-7698 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1967 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Reflections on the value of trials
Trials or pilot programmes are commonly adopted by governments to assess the feasibility of mobility interventions before committing to broader deployment. Although it is generally assumed that such trials contribute valuable insights and play an important role in advancing evidence-based policy, research evaluating the effectiveness of mobility trials remains scarce. This paper seeks to address this gap by critically assessing a shared e-scooter…
Economic deprivation as a mediator in the relationship between housing affordability stress and mental and general health among humanitarian migrants in Australia
BACKGROUND: Housing is a critical social determinant of health for migrant and refugee populations in high-income countries; however, the causal pathways linking housing affordability to health outcomes remain underexplored. This study aimed to examine the relationship between housing affordability stress and both mental and general health, and to assess the role of economic deprivation as a mediator of this relationship. METHODS: This study uses…
Understanding shared e-scooters from a civic stakeholder perspective
The popularity of e-scooters has introduced both new challenges and opportunities for urban mobility. This paper explores shared e-scooters’ development and regulation internationally through a civic (non-profit-oriented) stakeholder lens. Nine international expert interviews were conducted spanning different types of organisations. Data were analysed using NVivo software. A stakeholder framework was used to identify and examine the needs of stak…
The car-free journey to, and through, parenthood
In the context of increasing urgency and interest in the need to reduce private car dependence, it is surprising that we know very little about people who choose to live without cars. This is particularly so for those living through life-stages, and in structural and cultural contexts, generally associated with private car use. Parenting children is one such life-stage. The common understanding is that the vulnerabilities and complexities associa…
Positioning the Private Car as a Political Problem
Private car dependency in cities is often viewed as highly problematic. There is ample knowledge about how to structure and manage cities to support less private car dependence, yet cars continue to dominate transport practices across the globe. In this Viewpoint, we use car dependency as an example of an ostensibly obdurate problem sustained in part by policies promoted through political institutions. We position the legacy of the car as an issu…
Car-free not care-free - the social practices of parents without cars
Australian Government’s Draft National Urban Policy
The Urbanism Discipline at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning conducts world-leading research on the design, characteristics, processes and impacts of urban settle
Parenting in Proximity to Others
In many cities, living in an apartment throughout the life-course challenges the status-quo. While density is acceptable during some life-stages, the default is the detached dwelling during others. The parenting period is one such stage. Using records of the experiences of 20 parents of children 0-5 in apartments in Sydney, Australia, this paper questions the adequacy of density for family life in the case-study city. We add a unique focus on tem…
Comprehensive Urban Policy for Australia
The submission was developed and written by Patrick Harris, Nicky Morrison and Jennifer Kent. Representing three universities across Greater Sydney, we have over 40 years of research and profession
The impact of the built environment on loneliness
How are practices of care sometimes not fair? The case of parenting and private car use
How is it that the intention to care can produce and reproduce a practice that is quintessentially unjust? This conceptual piece uses the everyday transport practices of families to explore the paradox between individual practices of care and aspirations to just and care-full cities. In doing so, it encounters a fundamental barrier to the melding of care with notions of justice. While structurally and culturally, care and justice must fuse as asp…
Spiritual AIM
The chaplain is an essential member of the palliative care (PC) team, yet, standard methods to document chaplain assessments are lacking. The study team performed a retrospective analysis of chaplaincy documentation in an outpatient PC clinic at an academic medical center over 6 months (April 2017 to October 2017). The study team identified unique adult patients with cancer, then manually extracted variables from the electronic medical record. Th…
Sustainable Family Transport
Pathways Linking Housing Inequalities and Health Outcomes among Migrant and Refugee Populations in High-Income Countries
Several high-income countries are currently experiencing an unprecedented and multifaceted housing crisis. The crisis is escalating rapidly, and its negative ramifications are shared disproportionately by migrant and refugee communities. Although housing is often cited as an important social determinant of health, the relationship between housing inequalities and health outcomes in the context of migrant and refugee populations remain under-explo…
Impact of Covid-19 on health-related behaviours, well-being and weight management
The findings highlight the value of peer, group and online support and guidance for individuals to develop sustainable behaviour changes and a level of resilience. These strategies can then be drawn upon enabling maintenance of lifestyle changes and management of weight even in challenging times
Creating ‘healthy built environment’ legislation in Australia; a policy analysis
Influencing healthy public policy through health advocacy remains challenging. This policy analysis research uses theories of agenda setting to understand how health came to be considered for specific mention in legislation arising from land-use planning system reform in New South Wales, Australia. This qualitative study follows critical realist methodology to conduct a policy analysis of the case. We collected data from purposively sampled in-de…
Including health in environmental impact assessments of three mega transport projects in Sydney, Australia
Crime and crime prevention in an Australian growth centre
Catalysts for transport transitions
Sharing as sociomaterial practice
Sharing has become one of the buzzwords of contemporary urban life and scholarship, as cities and social lives are transformed by the share economy and collaborative consumption. This paper advances critical analysis of sharing economies through an investigation of the ways in which objects are mobilized in the practice of sharing. Drawing on an empirical base of 35 interviews conducted with Sydney residents using car sharing as a form of transpo…
Framing health for land-use planning legislation
Ontological Security and Private Car Use in Sydney, Australia
Successful promotion of alternative transport modes needs to be underpinned by better understandings of a seemingly cemented collective preference for private car use. This paper contributes to these understandings and proposes that automobility's dominance can be explained by a series of benefits intimately linked to the car. These benefits extend beyond those associated with utilitarian factors such as saving time. The concept of ontological se…
Community Action and Climate Change
The failure of recent international negotiations to progress global action on climate change has shifted attention to the emergence of grassroots sustainability initiatives. These civil society networks display the potential to implement social innovation and change processes from the ‘bottom up’. Recent scholarship has sought to theorise grassroots community-based low carbon practices in terms of their sustainability transition potential. Howeve…
Still Feeling the Car - The Role of Comfort in Sustaining Private Car Use
In 2004, Mimi Sheller highlighted that emotions and sensations play a key part in sustaining the dominant culture of automobility. Sheller’s work ‘Automotive Emotions’ has been followed by a decade of technological, social and cultural developments, many of which have enhanced the way we dwell in, and seek comfort from, the private car. Ten years on we are still ‘feeling the car’. This paper draws on empirical research on the journey to work in a…
Australian climate action groups in the deliberative system
A systemic approach to deliberative democracy de-emphasises the role of discrete deliberative experiments involving minipublics. Instead, this systemic perspective focuses attention on the quality of deliberation achieved throughout distributed governance systems. It opens up the possibility that institutions that do not appear deliberative in isolation may have a positive impact on deliberation at a system scale. This systemic perspective is dra…
Still Feeling the Car - The Role of Comfort in Sustaining Private Car Use
In 2004, Mimi Sheller highlighted that emotions and sensations play a key part in sustaining the dominant culture of automobility. Sheller’s work ‘Automotive Emotions’ has been followed by a decade of technological, social and cultural developments, many of which have enhanced the way we dwell in, and seek comfort from, the private car. Ten years on we are still ‘feeling the car’. This paper draws on empirical research on the journey to work in a…
Puncturing automobility? Carsharing practices
Catalysts for transport transitions
Sharing as sociomaterial practice
Sharing has become one of the buzzwords of contemporary urban life and scholarship, as cities and social lives are transformed by the share economy and collaborative consumption. This paper advances critical analysis of sharing economies through an investigation of the ways in which objects are mobilized in the practice of sharing. Drawing on an empirical base of 35 interviews conducted with Sydney residents using car sharing as a form of transpo…
Healthy Built Environments Supporting Everyday Occupations
Occupation is intrinsic to human health and occupations emerge from environmental opportunities. They are shaped by features of the context in which they happen. Yet the places where many people live out their everyday lives are not supportive of health. Car-dominated transport systems, reduced opportunities to be physically active, limited opportunities to access healthy food, and fewer places for people to connect with each other to build safe …
Individualized responsibility
The Australian Government, for example, spent $25 million in 2007 on the climate change information campaign targeted to every Australian household, 'Be Climate Clever: 'I can do that'. Such measures centre on 'personal, private-sphere ..... behaviour' (Stern 2005: 10786) that focuses on the 'choice of goods, services and lifestyles' (WWF-UK 2008: 10) and imply that global greenhouse gas emission reduction targets can be met through the actions o…
Including health in environmental impact assessments of three mega transport projects in Sydney, Australia
Framing health for land-use planning legislation
Ontological Security and Private Car Use in Sydney, Australia
Successful promotion of alternative transport modes needs to be underpinned by better understandings of a seemingly cemented collective preference for private car use. This paper contributes to these understandings and proposes that automobility's dominance can be explained by a series of benefits intimately linked to the car. These benefits extend beyond those associated with utilitarian factors such as saving time. The concept of ontological se…
Involving the urban poor in health services through accommodation--the employment of neighborhood representatives
Involving the urban poor in health services through accommodation--the employment of neighborhood representatives. J A Kent, and C H SmithCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.57.6.997 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability
A high and sustainable quality of life is a central goal for humanity. Our current socio-ecological regime and its set of interconnected worldviews, institutions, and technologies all support the goal of unlimited growth of material production and consumption as a proxy for quality of life. However, abundant evidence shows that, beyond a certain threshold, further material growth no longer significantly contributes to improvement in quality of li…
Individualized responsibility
The Australian Government, for example, spent $25 million in 2007 on the climate change information campaign targeted to every Australian household, 'Be Climate Clever: 'I can do that'. Such measures centre on 'personal, private-sphere ..... behaviour' (Stern 2005: 10786) that focuses on the 'choice of goods, services and lifestyles' (WWF-UK 2008: 10) and imply that global greenhouse gas emission reduction targets can be met through the actions o…
Healthy Built Environments Supporting Everyday Occupations
Occupation is intrinsic to human health and occupations emerge from environmental opportunities. They are shaped by features of the context in which they happen. Yet the places where many people live out their everyday lives are not supportive of health. Car-dominated transport systems, reduced opportunities to be physically active, limited opportunities to access healthy food, and fewer places for people to connect with each other to build safe …
Puncturing automobility? Carsharing practices
The Three Domains of Urban Planning for Health and Well-being
Urban planning has an important role to play in supporting human health. While this is increasingly recognized in a burgeoning interdisciplinary body of literature, there remains an ongoing need to clarify and conceptualize the relationship between planning and health. This is especially the case from the perspective of built environment professionals, as they increasingly focus on health and well-being issues. The key contribution of this articl…
Community Action and Climate Change
The failure of recent international negotiations to progress global action on climate change has shifted attention to the emergence of grassroots sustainability initiatives. These civil society networks display the potential to implement social innovation and change processes from the ‘bottom up’. Recent scholarship has sought to theorise grassroots community-based low carbon practices in terms of their sustainability transition potential. Howeve…
Still Feeling the Car - The Role of Comfort in Sustaining Private Car Use
In 2004, Mimi Sheller highlighted that emotions and sensations play a key part in sustaining the dominant culture of automobility. Sheller’s work ‘Automotive Emotions’ has been followed by a decade of technological, social and cultural developments, many of which have enhanced the way we dwell in, and seek comfort from, the private car. Ten years on we are still ‘feeling the car’. This paper draws on empirical research on the journey to work in a…
Australian climate action groups in the deliberative system
A systemic approach to deliberative democracy de-emphasises the role of discrete deliberative experiments involving minipublics. Instead, this systemic perspective focuses attention on the quality of deliberation achieved throughout distributed governance systems. It opens up the possibility that institutions that do not appear deliberative in isolation may have a positive impact on deliberation at a system scale. This systemic perspective is dra…
Framing health for land-use planning legislation
Ontological Security and Private Car Use in Sydney, Australia
Successful promotion of alternative transport modes needs to be underpinned by better understandings of a seemingly cemented collective preference for private car use. This paper contributes to these understandings and proposes that automobility's dominance can be explained by a series of benefits intimately linked to the car. These benefits extend beyond those associated with utilitarian factors such as saving time. The concept of ontological se…
Crime and crime prevention in an Australian growth centre
Catalysts for transport transitions
Sharing as sociomaterial practice
Sharing has become one of the buzzwords of contemporary urban life and scholarship, as cities and social lives are transformed by the share economy and collaborative consumption. This paper advances critical analysis of sharing economies through an investigation of the ways in which objects are mobilized in the practice of sharing. Drawing on an empirical base of 35 interviews conducted with Sydney residents using car sharing as a form of transpo…
Creating ‘healthy built environment’ legislation in Australia; a policy analysis
Influencing healthy public policy through health advocacy remains challenging. This policy analysis research uses theories of agenda setting to understand how health came to be considered for specific mention in legislation arising from land-use planning system reform in New South Wales, Australia. This qualitative study follows critical realist methodology to conduct a policy analysis of the case. We collected data from purposively sampled in-de…
Including health in environmental impact assessments of three mega transport projects in Sydney, Australia
Impact of Covid-19 on health-related behaviours, well-being and weight management
The findings highlight the value of peer, group and online support and guidance for individuals to develop sustainable behaviour changes and a level of resilience. These strategies can then be drawn upon enabling maintenance of lifestyle changes and management of weight even in challenging times
Spiritual AIM
The chaplain is an essential member of the palliative care (PC) team, yet, standard methods to document chaplain assessments are lacking. The study team performed a retrospective analysis of chaplaincy documentation in an outpatient PC clinic at an academic medical center over 6 months (April 2017 to October 2017). The study team identified unique adult patients with cancer, then manually extracted variables from the electronic medical record. Th…
Sustainable Family Transport
Pathways Linking Housing Inequalities and Health Outcomes among Migrant and Refugee Populations in High-Income Countries
Several high-income countries are currently experiencing an unprecedented and multifaceted housing crisis. The crisis is escalating rapidly, and its negative ramifications are shared disproportionately by migrant and refugee communities. Although housing is often cited as an important social determinant of health, the relationship between housing inequalities and health outcomes in the context of migrant and refugee populations remain under-explo…
The impact of the built environment on loneliness
How are practices of care sometimes not fair? The case of parenting and private car use
How is it that the intention to care can produce and reproduce a practice that is quintessentially unjust? This conceptual piece uses the everyday transport practices of families to explore the paradox between individual practices of care and aspirations to just and care-full cities. In doing so, it encounters a fundamental barrier to the melding of care with notions of justice. While structurally and culturally, care and justice must fuse as asp…
Australian Government’s Draft National Urban Policy
The Urbanism Discipline at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning conducts world-leading research on the design, characteristics, processes and impacts of urban settle
Parenting in Proximity to Others
In many cities, living in an apartment throughout the life-course challenges the status-quo. While density is acceptable during some life-stages, the default is the detached dwelling during others. The parenting period is one such stage. Using records of the experiences of 20 parents of children 0-5 in apartments in Sydney, Australia, this paper questions the adequacy of density for family life in the case-study city. We add a unique focus on tem…
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