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Associate Professor Jennifer Day is an Associate Professor in Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, affiliated with the Melbourne School of Design. She holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in Civil Engineering from San Jose State University. Day joined the University of Melbourne in 2009 and has since advanced her career in academia, focusing on urban planning research and education. Her work bridges theoretical and practical aspects of urban development, emphasizing spatial analysis and societal impacts.

Day's research specializations include dispossession, displacement, suburbanisation in the Pacific region, and spatial statistics, with earlier contributions on urbanisation in China. She has examined transit-oriented development, residential relocation effects on household expenditures, commuting behaviors, and satisfaction in Shanghai and Kunming. Key publications encompass "Suburbanization and transit-oriented development in China" (with R. Cervero, Transport Policy, 2008), "Effects of residential relocation on household and commuting expenditures in Shanghai, China" (with R. Cervero, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2010), "Effects of involuntary residential relocation on household satisfaction in Shanghai, China" (Urban Policy and Research, 2013), "Commute responses to employment decentralization" (Transportation Research Part D, 2017), and chapters in Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China (2014). Recent projects investigate migrant connections to land in Port Vila, Vanuatu, customary land disputes, and urban resilience in Melanesia. She has secured grants from the Australian Research Council (e.g., Discovery Project DP220101100) and the National Geographic Society, and received the Endeavour Research Fellowship. Day serves as Associate Editor for Human Settlements and Sustainability and leads initiatives like the Regional Studies Association Research Network on academic-practitioner collaboration for urban settlements in the South Pacific. Her scholarship, with over 1,300 Google Scholar citations, informs policy on urban equity and development paradigms.