Louise is a human geographer specialising in urban housing, home and the everyday politics of construction. Her work examines how apartments, modular and off-site construction, and other building methodologies shape residents’ daily lives, and how residents reinterpret and adapt to these systems. She focuses on what these lived experiences mean for future housing models and urban governance in Australia and Europe.

A Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University, Louise holds an ARC DECRA Fellowship (2024-2028) supporting her research on the lived experience of innovative housing. Her aim is to bring grounded evidence to debates on housing quality, sustainability and the long-term implications of construction innovation.

Louise collaborates with builders, manufacturers, developers, state and local governments, industry associations and policy-makers to understand how construction approaches and regulatory frameworks shape everyday life in apartments. She is particularly interested in the gaps between the promises of innovation and the realities experienced by households.

Her work is relevant to organisations exploring modular, off-site and mass-timber delivery; housing quality and resident wellbeing; medium- and high-density living; and the material politics of sustainability.