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Nicola Willand

Senior Lecturer (Built environment and design; Health sciences; Human society)

Melbourne, Australia

Nicola Willand, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. As an interdisciplinary researcher and expert on housing, energy, equity and health, Nicola’s research focuses on how housing outcomes are shaped by the intersection of dwelling quality, householder practices and the structural, geographical and social contexts. Her multi-method research experience enables her to work at the nexus of the built environment, technological innovations in the energy transition and social research. Her work has been published in high ranking, interdisciplinary journals, such as Social Science & Medicine, Energy Research & Social Science, Applied Energy, Energy and Buildings and Housing Studies.

Publications

  • Towards explaining the health impacts of residential energy efficiency interventions – A realist review. Part 1: Pathways
  • “They are grinding us into the ground” – The lived experience of (in)energy justice amongst low-income older households
  • "It's not too bad" - The Lived Experience of Energy Saving Practices of Low-Income Older and Frail People
  • Recognition justice in Australia: Hidden energy vulnerability through the experiences of intermediaries
  • Relationship of thermal performance rating, summer indoor temperatures and cooling energy use in 107 homes in Melbourne, Australia
  • What happened, how, why and what mattered: Three case studies from a low-income residential energy efficiency intervention program
  • Ecolabels for asthma sufferers
  • Compact fluorescent lamps -- cure or curse?
  • Residential energy efficiency and health--A mixed methods study of a quasi-randomised controlled trial of energy efficiency improvements of the homes of low-income Home and Community Care recipients near Melbourne, Australia
  • Warm, cool and energy-affordable housing policy solutions for low-income renters
  • Development of a Building Information Modelling Threshold Capability Framework to Enable Global Curriculum Co-Integration
  • Understanding the contextual influences of the health outcomes of residential energy efficiency interventions: realist review
  • Retrofit Poverty: Socioeconomic Spatial Disparities in Retrofit Subsidies Uptake
  • Quantitative exploration of winter living room temperatures and their determinants in 108 homes in Melbourne, Victoria
  • Housing inequalities and resilience: the lived experience of COVID-19
  • Sustainable Built Environment
  • Sustainability in the context of museums and collections
  • Summary Report: Tackling hidden energy vulnerability through housing, energy and health collaborations
  • Drivers of Demand for Zero and Towards Zero Emissions Residential Retrofits. Prepared for Sustainability Victoria by the Centre for Design, RMIT University, Melbourne
  • The lived experience of COVID-19: housing and household resilience
  • Power Shift Project One: Driving Change--Identifying what Caused Low-Income Consumers to Change Behaviour
  • Integrating energy efficiency & hardship improvements into the Care at Home system
  • Identifying VEU program clusters in the Latrobe Valley and Moreland
  • Low carbon residential refurbishments in Australia: progress and prospects
  • Opportunity, ideal or distraction? Exploring stakeholder perceptions of tackling energy poverty and vulnerability among older Australians
  • Man caves, granny flats and alternative living spaces: Low carbon home retrofit and implications for policymaking
  • Smoking in apartment buildings--Spatiality, meanings and understandings
  • The use of simulation software for building performance assessment in existing commercial buildings with heritage values
  • Addressing health and equity in residential low carbon transitions – Insights from a pragmatic retrofit evaluation in Australia
  • Hydrogen for all? Household energy vulnerability and the transition to hydrogen in Australia
  • Using the capability approach to evaluate energy vulnerability policies and initiatives in Victoria, Australia
  • Understanding essential energy through functionings: A comparative study across six energy poverty trials in Europe
  • Sizing up new housing in Victoria: An interdisciplinary perspective on housing sufficiency

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