A/Prof Kathryn Davidson
Associate Professor in Urban Planning
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
63 Scholarly works
5 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2025
Journal article
Implications of declaration of climate emergency on Australian local government policy in the State of Victoria: policy analysis utilising an LLM-based retriever-reader pipeline
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-025-04046-82025
Journal article
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.1009852025
Journal article
Decentring our appreciation of the association of factors and cities' mitigation patterns
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2025.1025432025
Journal article
A research agenda to inform post-disaster transformative adaptation
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/adc9402025
Journal article
Reflections eight years on from the first declaration of climate emergency: The role of LDA topic modelling combined with qualitative policy analysis in detecting a frame of “climate emergency” in real-world policy
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.1040352020
Research Contracts
Sustainable Test Bed Sites - Research & Analysis
2019
Journal article
Urban Resilience in Action: the Resilient Melbourne Strategy as Transformative Urban Innovation Policy?
DOI: 10.3390/su11030693
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2025
Book Chapter
Embedding Transformative Innovation into Mission-Oriented Policy and Innovation Districts: The Case of Melbourne
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-7671-9_112025
Journal article
The Spatial Geographies of Women Urban Runners
DOI: 10.1080/08111146.2024.24010122024
Journal article
Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-01991-z2023
Journal article
Institutionalising 100 Resilient Cities governance experiments in cities with no metropolitan government: A case study of Living Melbourne (Resilient Melbourne), Australia
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2023.1045002023
Journal article
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.104042
RECENT PROJECTS
2022
Research Grant
Harnessing Big Data: Processing Large-Scale Policy Text Data to Provide Evidence on the Current Landscape of Climate Actors’ Policies and Their Overlaps in Australia
2021
Internal Research Grant
Innovation Districts: Embedding Societal Missions Into New Urban Models
2019
Research Contracts
Resilient Communities