Advisor: Robert Cervero
PhD, City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
MS, Civil Engineering, San Jose State University, 2000
University of Melbourne - Present
- Associate Professor, Urban Planning
Jennifer Eve Day works on issues of forced displacement and eviction, economic development, and urbanization across Asia and the Pacific, and she is expert in methods ranging from econometrics to qualitative storytelling. Jennie holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and master’s degree in Civil Engineering from San Jose State University. She is interested in the forces that compel growth and change in cities, and in the policy levers that can guide that change. She is the CI on an ARC Discovery project titled, "Communities, Kava, Court Orders: The Ways of Possessing the Pacific City" and works closely with grass-roots community movements in Port Vila, Vanuatu. She currently leads an informal working group, the Possessing the Pacific City Working Group, which invites new members. She is a lead organizer in the Regional Studies Association Research Network on Academic-Practitioner Collaboration for Urban Shelter, South Pacific (APCUS-SP), a network that aims to unite academic knowledge and practitioner expertise toward better shelter in disaster settings (https://www.facebook.com/groups/APCUS). She has undertaken the Humanitarian Shelter Coordination training in order to further support her work on forced displacement and disaster preparedness. She is a National Geographic Explorer and is currently leading a project on forced displacement and urbanization in the peri-urban areas of South Pacific cities, funded by the National Geographic Society.
- Urban growth and change
- Forced displacement and eviction
- Economic development and Urbanization
