Wendy has a background in environment management and planning. Her research works have spanned sustainability, housing provision, policy/plan outcome evaluation, and their interactions with or impacts on social-spatial equity and/or well-being. She enjoys multi-disciplinary research using both qualitative and quantitative analysis, often in combination with stakeholder engagements and interviews. Her current research interests include science-policy interface and brokerage, policy actors’ perceptions of risks and decision-making of environmental and health challenges, including cancer-causing substances in the environment.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Lecturer in Urban Planning for Health, The university of auckland
  • 2021–2023
    Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Risk, Policy and Planning, Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures & Faculty of Science School of Environment, University of Auckland

Education

  • 2020 
    The University of Auckland , PhD in Planning

Contact Dr for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision