Fiona Andrews
Biographic Data
| ID | 4086675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Andrews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Andrews |
| SIGNATURE | ANDREWS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5082-1702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cooking in the urban kitchen
In response to growing urban populations, apartment living is becoming ubiquitous in cities. Apartments, however, are often built with small and restrictive kitchens. This plausibly discourages home food preparation and promotes reliance on the out-of-home food supply. Despite detrimental implications for public health, this topic is currently understudied. Hence, this study explored how apartment living influences food practices in two Belgian c…
A place to call home
Healthy, family-friendly apartment kitchen design
This study explored constraints and opportunities in apartment kitchen design for family home cooking and dining. An online audit of 115 two-bedroom apartments in three Melbourne suburbs of Australia was conducted, with images collected from the audit guiding photo-elicitation interviews on the kitchen designs, with architects from firms involved in apartment complex design. Affordance theory provided a conceptual lens to thematically analyse the…
Microvillage
This paper describes a project exploring the viability in Australia of increasing the supply of small, affordable housing to those with limited income and wealth and a desire to live in homes that integrate with the community in meaningful ways and minimise consumption of building materials, land and energy. The research context is the increasing marketing and media coverage of tiny homes, which has prompted questions about whether such houses ca…
Overcoming obstacles to accessibility and inclusivity in an Australian regional city
This paper describes research asking what is required to overcome entrenched obstacles to accessibility and inclusivity in an Australia regional city, in particular for those living with disability. A transdisciplinary, systems thinking approach allowed a range of stakeholders, including many with lived experiences of disability, to create a collective plan of action. This plan included interdependent interventions, independent and ahead of natio…
Best Practice Design and Planning Guidelines for Family-Friendly Apartments
In the context of planning moves to densify Australian cities, an apartment building boom attracting many families with children, and a regulatory regime which ignored the design challenges posed by this cohort, a mismatch has emerged between apartment design policy and the needs of families. This paper reports on research exploring how Australia and other countries transitioning to high-density living could provide more child-friendly apartment …
The impacts of kitchen and dining spatial design on cooking and eating experience in residential buildings
The built environment is a factor widely known to have significant impacts on dietary behaviours and the promotion of healthy food practices. Yet, there is limited understanding of the influential design features of domestic cooking and eating spaces on food practices. This systematic scoping review aimed to provide an overview of the body of knowledge (by identifying and classifying different design features of domestic kitchen and dining area a…
Exploring perspectives on healthy housing among low-income prospective residents of a future co-housing “Microvillage” in Geelong, Australia
Housing unaffordability coupled with a decrease in social housing availability, have contributed to a greater proportion of Australians, including older people and those on low incomes, privately renting. While co-housing has been proposed as a solution to these issues, little is known about the potential ability of co-housing to offer healthy housing. This paper presents a qualitative research study of low-income potential residents’ perspective…
The cooking and eating experiences of Australian families with children, living in private, inner-city, high-rise apartments
More Australian families are choosing to live in private, inner-city, high-rise apartments. To date, the cooking and eating experiences of such families, and how their practices are shaped by the design of these apartments, have not been investigated. As children’s health status can benefit from participating in family meals, this study aimed to explore the cooking and eating experiences of apartment-dwelling families in two Australian capital ci…
Surface acquaintances”
Young Australian Adults Relaunching from Home
Leaving home is no longer one‐way, with many young adults returning home. This is often short‐term although little research exists around families’ experiences when offspring relaunch. This study addressed this gap through interviews with 10 young Australian adults who had returned to coresidence and their parents. Findings revealed the return had an expected duration. While the young adults were looking forward to moving out, their parents were …
Mothers’ ideals and experiences of raising children in inner and outer suburban Melbourne, Australia
Parents’ perceptions of their neighbourhoods are important for child health outcomes. This study compared views among mothers in inner versus outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia using a mixed methods approach. Mothers of preschool-aged children were recruited via playgroups, mother’s groups and preschools and interviewed face-to-face regarding their local area as a good place to raise a family, with a second open-ended interview focussing on mo…
Exploring the Suburban Ideal
This article reports on how photo elicitation interviewing (PEI) was experienced by eight participants in a qualitative phenomenological study of suburban lived experiences. Adopting a respondent-controlled approach, participants were required to photograph at least 10 aspects of their suburb that they perceived to be good and problematical and then explain the meaning of their images as part of a follow-up interview. This discussion also involve…
You just accept’
Drawing on a qualitative study of Australian families who returned to co-residence, this article focuses on the ways young adults and their parents come to accept the change in their living arrangement after time spent apart. Findings from in-depth interviews suggest that young adults experience mixed feelings about returning home on the pathway to eventual acceptance, whereas parents appear to be more accepting of the living arrangement from the…
Parents׳ experiences of raising pre-school aged children in an outer-Melbourne growth corridor
Parental perceptions of residential location
Parental perceptions of residential location
Exploring the Suburban Ideal
This article reports on how photo elicitation interviewing (PEI) was experienced by eight participants in a qualitative phenomenological study of suburban lived experiences. Adopting a respondent-controlled approach, participants were required to photograph at least 10 aspects of their suburb that they perceived to be good and problematical and then explain the meaning of their images as part of a follow-up interview. This discussion also involve…
Parents׳ experiences of raising pre-school aged children in an outer-Melbourne growth corridor
Surface acquaintances”
Young Australian Adults Relaunching from Home
Leaving home is no longer one‐way, with many young adults returning home. This is often short‐term although little research exists around families’ experiences when offspring relaunch. This study addressed this gap through interviews with 10 young Australian adults who had returned to coresidence and their parents. Findings revealed the return had an expected duration. While the young adults were looking forward to moving out, their parents were …
Parental perceptions of residential location
Parents׳ experiences of raising pre-school aged children in an outer-Melbourne growth corridor
You just accept’
Drawing on a qualitative study of Australian families who returned to co-residence, this article focuses on the ways young adults and their parents come to accept the change in their living arrangement after time spent apart. Findings from in-depth interviews suggest that young adults experience mixed feelings about returning home on the pathway to eventual acceptance, whereas parents appear to be more accepting of the living arrangement from the…
Mothers’ ideals and experiences of raising children in inner and outer suburban Melbourne, Australia
Parents’ perceptions of their neighbourhoods are important for child health outcomes. This study compared views among mothers in inner versus outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia using a mixed methods approach. Mothers of preschool-aged children were recruited via playgroups, mother’s groups and preschools and interviewed face-to-face regarding their local area as a good place to raise a family, with a second open-ended interview focussing on mo…
Exploring the Suburban Ideal
This article reports on how photo elicitation interviewing (PEI) was experienced by eight participants in a qualitative phenomenological study of suburban lived experiences. Adopting a respondent-controlled approach, participants were required to photograph at least 10 aspects of their suburb that they perceived to be good and problematical and then explain the meaning of their images as part of a follow-up interview. This discussion also involve…
Young Australian Adults Relaunching from Home
Leaving home is no longer one‐way, with many young adults returning home. This is often short‐term although little research exists around families’ experiences when offspring relaunch. This study addressed this gap through interviews with 10 young Australian adults who had returned to coresidence and their parents. Findings revealed the return had an expected duration. While the young adults were looking forward to moving out, their parents were …
Surface acquaintances”
The cooking and eating experiences of Australian families with children, living in private, inner-city, high-rise apartments
More Australian families are choosing to live in private, inner-city, high-rise apartments. To date, the cooking and eating experiences of such families, and how their practices are shaped by the design of these apartments, have not been investigated. As children’s health status can benefit from participating in family meals, this study aimed to explore the cooking and eating experiences of apartment-dwelling families in two Australian capital ci…
Exploring perspectives on healthy housing among low-income prospective residents of a future co-housing “Microvillage” in Geelong, Australia
Housing unaffordability coupled with a decrease in social housing availability, have contributed to a greater proportion of Australians, including older people and those on low incomes, privately renting. While co-housing has been proposed as a solution to these issues, little is known about the potential ability of co-housing to offer healthy housing. This paper presents a qualitative research study of low-income potential residents’ perspective…
Overcoming obstacles to accessibility and inclusivity in an Australian regional city
This paper describes research asking what is required to overcome entrenched obstacles to accessibility and inclusivity in an Australia regional city, in particular for those living with disability. A transdisciplinary, systems thinking approach allowed a range of stakeholders, including many with lived experiences of disability, to create a collective plan of action. This plan included interdependent interventions, independent and ahead of natio…
Best Practice Design and Planning Guidelines for Family-Friendly Apartments
In the context of planning moves to densify Australian cities, an apartment building boom attracting many families with children, and a regulatory regime which ignored the design challenges posed by this cohort, a mismatch has emerged between apartment design policy and the needs of families. This paper reports on research exploring how Australia and other countries transitioning to high-density living could provide more child-friendly apartment …
The impacts of kitchen and dining spatial design on cooking and eating experience in residential buildings
The built environment is a factor widely known to have significant impacts on dietary behaviours and the promotion of healthy food practices. Yet, there is limited understanding of the influential design features of domestic cooking and eating spaces on food practices. This systematic scoping review aimed to provide an overview of the body of knowledge (by identifying and classifying different design features of domestic kitchen and dining area a…
Healthy, family-friendly apartment kitchen design
This study explored constraints and opportunities in apartment kitchen design for family home cooking and dining. An online audit of 115 two-bedroom apartments in three Melbourne suburbs of Australia was conducted, with images collected from the audit guiding photo-elicitation interviews on the kitchen designs, with architects from firms involved in apartment complex design. Affordance theory provided a conceptual lens to thematically analyse the…
Microvillage
This paper describes a project exploring the viability in Australia of increasing the supply of small, affordable housing to those with limited income and wealth and a desire to live in homes that integrate with the community in meaningful ways and minimise consumption of building materials, land and energy. The research context is the increasing marketing and media coverage of tiny homes, which has prompted questions about whether such houses ca…
A place to call home
Cooking in the urban kitchen
In response to growing urban populations, apartment living is becoming ubiquitous in cities. Apartments, however, are often built with small and restrictive kitchens. This plausibly discourages home food preparation and promotes reliance on the out-of-home food supply. Despite detrimental implications for public health, this topic is currently understudied. Hence, this study explored how apartment living influences food practices in two Belgian c…
Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (5 works)