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Dr Hayley Henderson is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Infrastructure in Society (I2S), based at the Crawford School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on the drivers and dynamics collaboration in urban policymaking. In particular, since completing her PhD (2018) she has worked on research projects about: 1) identifying and managing social risk relating to infrastructure; 2) cultural diversity and collaborative governance of revitalisation programs; and 3) the governance dynamics associated with transitioning to sustainable urban infrastructure (e.g. Blue Green Infrastructure). Hayley’s research is primarily focused on Australian and Argentine cities, though she also conducts comparative studies that involve other South American, European and North American cities.
The research underscored the vital role of robust local government policymaking to accompany state-based renewal programmes; the value of both formal and informal work across policy domains and between jurisdictions; the importance of ongoing, place-based community engagement and, how actors from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities facilitated an expanded sense of pluralism in collaborative settings. In turn, some of these settings proved fruitful for problem-solving relating to urban decline. A detailed Research Briefing on the main findings from the Central Dandenong case study was published, including lessons for public policy, and summarised in short pieces for The Conversation and Policy Forum. This research contributed to the following recent publications:
As an extension to this project, more recently Hayley has worked in collaboration with SGS Economics & Planning to identify Australia’s other “super” and “stably” diverse urban centres that have been part of public policies to renew or revitalise centre areas or may form the focus of planned future programmes. The research also evaluates the risk of gentrification facing highly diverse urban centres. The direction of this project is to study the role and impact of “an ethic of cultural pluralism” in collaborative governance of urban revitalisation across Australia’s most diverse urban centres.
3. Hayley has continued to undertake research in Argentina relating to the collaborative governance of sustainable urban infrastructure, often as part of broader international comparative studies. In particular, as the Coordinator of the Buenos Aires Life Lab of CONEXUS program (funded through European Union Horizon 2020-2024) during 2020 and 2021, she worked with policy makers, non-profit representatives, and researchers in co-creating Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to support the uptake of sustainable urbanisation practices in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She continues to play a role in this project, examining governance practices and valuation techniques of NbS as part of the comparative study with Life Labs in Bogotá (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Santiago (Chile), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Lisbon (Portugal), Barcelona (Spain) and Turin (Italy).
Hayley also regularly conducts research consultancies with multilateral agencies (e.g. UNEP, World Bank) in Argentina that focus on designing NbS, in particular Blue Green Infrastructure solutions to traditional urban problems, including wetland management, improved social housing and informal settlement upgrading and parks design.
Detailed findings this research on sustainable urban infrastructure and the challenges and opportunities for governing a transition away from traditional approaches towards NbS include:
Hayley has also taught over the last decade in planning programs in Melbourne and Buenos Aires, including subjects relating to social planning, urban planning theory, practice and governance. In her role at ANU, Hayley is also the convenor and lecturer of Public Policy in Cities (POGO8132) offered to students of the Master of Public Policy and Master of Public Administration.
She is an Associate Editor of the Collaborative Governance Database.
Most common approach: case study (comparative case study)
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Urban Studies, PhD, The University of Melbourne
Award Date: 8 Dec 2018
Visiting Research Fellow, Centro de Investigación Hábitat y Energía, FADU, UBA
1 Mar 2022 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper