Dr Hulya Gilbert

Hulya Gilbert is a Lecturer in City Planning program at UNSW Sydney. She is also a Fellow at UNSW's City Futures Research Centre. Before her PhD, Hulya worked as a social planning consultant, providing strategic advice to Catholic schools in South Australia. Her PhD research explored the multifaceted and relational aspects of Australian children’s everyday mobilities with a particular focus on the environmental cost of their car-dependent lifestyles and the role of children's mobilities in transition to low carbon living. This research was awarded for its excellence by the Planning Institute of Australia and the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia. Her primary research interests are child friendly cities, healthy, socially and environmentally sustainable neighbourhoods, the flows of power that shape our planning and transport discourses and the implications of these for social and spatial justice.