Louise Clare Johnson

Dr Louise Johnson is an Honorary Professor at Deakin University and Honorary (Professorial Fellow) at the University of Melbourne. She taught for over 40 years in Australian and New Zealand universities and has a solid record of research, policy development, leadership and community activism. A human geographer, she has researched Geelong’s textile industry, displaced car industry workers, women in the service sector, the growth of the creative industries and most recently analysed the city’s economic resilience and socio-spatial disadvantage. As well as generating over 120 publications, this work has informed policy development and underpins her role in Northern Futures and on the City’s Affordable Social Housing Advisory Committee. In 2011 she received the Institute of Australian Geographers Australia and International Medal for her contribution to urban, social and cultural geography