Stream Three: Capturing Complexity

How can we better measure the effects of exposure to unhealthy housing?

How does risk vary across subpopulations?

Capturing Complexity

Stream three

Projects:

The role of housing (in combination with other welfare interventions) in predicting the health and welfare of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders?
Healthy rental living prediction project.
Improving the prediction of health variations by socio-demographics – especially those in disadvantage or need.

PhD Projects:

Personalised Housing & Health Risk Prediction

Journal articles

Baker, E., & Bentley, R. (2023). Housing and health: a time for action. International Journal of Housing Policy, 23(2), 197-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2204650
Baker, E., Barlow, C. F., Daniel, L., Morey, C., Bentley, R., & Taylor, M. P. 2023. Mental health impacts of environmental exposures: a scoping review of evaluative instruments. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169063
Baker, E., Daniel, L., Beer, A. et al. An Australian rental housing conditions research infrastructure. Sci Data 9, 33 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01136-5
Baker, E., Morey, C., Daniel, L. et al. An Australian housing conditions data infrastructure. Sci Data 10, 817 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02739-2.
Barlow CF, Daniel L, Bentley R, Baker E. Cold housing environments: defining the problem for an appropriate policy response. J Public Health Policy. 2023 Sep;44(3):370-385. http://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-023-00431-8
Barlow, C. F., Daniel, L., & Baker, E. 2023. Cold Homes in Australia: Questioning our assumptions about prevalence. Energy Research & Social Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103124
Clair, A. & Baker, E. 2022, Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, Social Science & Medicine. 314, 115461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115461
Clair, A., Baker, E., & Kumari, M. 2024. Are housing circumstances associated with faster epigenetic ageing? J. Epidemiol Community Health, 78(1). https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2023-220523
Daniel, L., Baker, E., Beer, A., & Bentley, R. (2023). Australian rental housing standards: institutional shifts to reprioritize the housing–health nexus. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 10(1), 461-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2023.2190406
Daniel, L., Lang, M., Barlow, C., Phibbs, P., Baker, E., & Hamilton, I. (2024). A national roadmap for improving the building quality of Australian housing stock. AHURI Final Report. https://doi.org/10.18408/ahuri3232301
Dorraki, M., Liao, Z., Abbott, D., Psaltis, P. J., Baker, E., Bidargaddi, N., Wardill, H. R., van den Hengel, A., Narula, J., & Verjans, J. W. 2024. Improving Cardiovascular Disease Prediction with Machine Learning Using Mental Health Data: A Prospective UK Biobank Study. JACC Advances, 3(9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacadv.2024.101180
James, L., Daniel, L., Bentley, R., & Baker, E. (2024). Housing niches: new directions for housing and urban policy. International Journal of Housing Policy, 24(3), 395-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2254466
Malvaso, C., Montgomerie, A., Pilkington, R. M., Baker, E., & Lynch, J. W. (2022). Examining the intersection of child protection and public housing: development, health and justice outcomes using linked administrative data. BMJ open, 12(6), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057284
Moskos, M., Isherwood, L., Dockery, M., Baker, E. and Pham, A. (2022) ‘What works’ to sustain Indigenous tenancies in Australia, AHURI Final Report No. 374, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne, http://doi.org/10.18408/ahuri3122901
Pang, G., Pham, N.T.A., Baker, E., Bentley, R. and van den Hengel, A., 2022, May. Deep depression prediction on longitudinal data via joint anomaly ranking and classification. In Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (pp. 236-248). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05936-0_19

Plain language

Baker, E, Beer, A and Blake, M (2022) Look where Australia’s ‘1 million empty homes’ are and why they’re vacant – they’re not a simple solution to housing need. https://theconversation.com/look-where-australias-1-million-empty-homes-are-and-why-theyre-vacant-theyre-not-a-simple-solution-to-housing-need-189067
Barlow, C, Baker, E, Daniel, L (2023) Feeling frozen? 4 out of 5 homes in southern Australia are colder than is healthy. https://theconversation.com/feeling-frozen-4-out-of-5-homes-in-southern-australia-are-colder-than-is-healthy-205293
Beer, A and Baker, E (2023) The rental housing crisis is hurting our most vulnerable and demands a range of solutions (but capping rents isn’t one of them). https://theconversation.com/the-rental-housing-crisis-is-hurting-our-most-vulnerable-and-demands-a-range-of-solutions-but-capping-rents-isnt-one-of-them-211275
Clair, A and Baker E (2023) Cold homes increase the risk of severe mental health problems. https://theconversation.com/cold-homes-increase-the-risk-of-severe-mental-health-problems-new-study-193125
Clair, A, Baker, E, Kumari, M (2023) Insecure renting ages you faster than owning a home, unemployment or obesity. Better housing policy can change this. https://theconversation.com/insecure-renting-ages-you-faster-than-owning-a-home-unemployment-or-obesity-better-housing-policy-can-change-this-216364
Daniel, L, Baker, E, Hamilton, I, Lang, M, Phibbs, P (2024) How to get the housing we need: Healthy, Affordable, Resilient to Climate Change. https://theconversation.com/how-to-get-the-housing-we-need-healthy-affordable-and-resilient-to-climate-change-238205
Moore, T, Baker, E, Daniel, L, Willand, N (2024) Victoria is raising minimum rental standards – it’s good news for tenants and the environment. https://theconversation.com/victoria-is-raising-minimum-rental-standards-its-good-news-for-tenants-and-the-environment-231679
Times Higher Education. 2024. Health begins at home: Is your house making you sick? Times Higher Education, 4 April. Available at: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/research/university-adelaide/health-begins-home-your-house-making-you-sick
Baker, E and Beer, A. 2022. Australia has been crying out for a national housing plan, and new council is a big step towards having one. The Conversation, 9 August. Available at: https://theconversation.com/australia-has-been-crying-out-for-a-national-housing-plan-and-new-council-is-a-big-step-towards-having-one-188365
Barlow, C., Baker, E., Daniel, L. and Moore, T. 2022. If you’re renting, chances are your home is cold. With power prices soaring, here’s what you can do to keep warm. The Conversation, 15 June. Available at: https://theconversation.com/if-youre-renting-chances-are-your-home-is-cold-with-power-prices-soaring-heres-what-you-can-do-to-keep-warm-184472

Other

Baker, E. 2024. Putting the housing into Healthy Housing (Keynote). Housing Studies Association 2024 Conference - Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives: Exploring the Intersections of Health and Housing, April 2024, Sheffield UK.
Clair, A. 2024. Housing, Health, and Policy Coherence (Keynote). Housing Studies Association 2024 Conference - Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives: Exploring the Intersections of Health and Housing, April 2024, Sheffield UK.
Clair, A. 2024. The HousedWell Index: Development of a comprehensive measure of housing as it relates to health and well-being, Joint APNHR - AHRC Conference, February 2024, Adelaide.
Clair, A. and Baker, E. 2024. The HousedWell Index. Housing Studies Association 2024 Conference - Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives: Exploring the Intersections of Health and Housing, April 2024, Sheffield UK.
Clair, A., Baker, E. and Kumari, M. 2023. Are housing experiences associated with faster epigenetic ageing?, ENHR Conference August 2023, Lodz, Poland.
Clair, A., Baker, E., Dorraki, M., Verjans, J., van den Hengel, A. 2024. Investigating the potential of machine learning to explore complex housing and health questions. Housing Studies Association 2024 Conference - Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives: Exploring the Intersections of Health and Housing, April 2024, Sheffield UK.
Dinmore, H., Page, K., Clair, A., Shoubridge, C., Baker, E., & Boyd, M. Death, Housing and the Role of Place. Housing Studies Association 2024 Conference - Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives: Exploring the Intersections of Health and Housing, April 2024, Sheffield UK.
Housing and Health: Harnessing complexity to inform better policy making. MiSoC research event, November 2023, London.
Housing insecurity in the private rented sector in England: drivers and impacts. UK Parliament POSTnote research briefing. https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0729/
Housing insecurity in the private rented sector in England: policy implications, UK Parliament POSTnote research briefing. https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0730/
Van den Hengel, A. Evidence presented to Commonwealth, Senate, Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), 16 July 2024, 60, https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=committees/commsen/28251/&sid=0000.
Submission to Parliamentary Inquiry into housing affordability and supply in Australia (PDF, 570Kb)