Research Fellow, RMIT University
As part of the Beyond Behaviour Change research program, Larissa’s research is about the ways we live and how these relate to health, wellbeing, resource consumption and the environment.
Larissa’s broad range of experience in medical research, teaching and training, community development and energy efficiency informs her research interests which include the relationship between consumption practices, health, and the environment, the impact of urban design, housing and technologies on health and sustainability, community in urban and regional life, food practices, food safety, and food security and social change, household practices, equity and renters issues.
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