Amber Logan

PhD
Research Fellow, University of Otago, Wellington

Amber is a Research fellow with the NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities. She recently completed her PhD on Housing and Health for Whānau Māori. She is working on the Māori strand of the Public Health and Urban Regeneration Programme.

Key publications

  1. Olin, C
    Witten, K.
    Randal, E.
    Chisholm, E.
    Logan, A.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Leigh, L.
    Placemaking and the Complexities of Measuring Impact in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public and Community Housing: From Theory to Practice and Lived Experience.
    Architecture 2025,
    5(3), 69.
    Placemaking and the Complexities of Measuring Impact in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public and Community Housing, pdf
    Olin 2025 architecture-05-00069-v3.pdf
  2. Witten, K.
    Olin, C
    Logan, A.
    Chisholm, E.
    Randal, E.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Leigh, L.
    Placemaking for tenant wellbeing: Exploring the decision-making of public and community housing providers in Aotearoa New Zealand.
    Wellbeing, Space and Society,
    8, 100258.
    Research Summary. Placemaking for tenant wellbeing, pdf
    Research summary Witten 2025 Placemaking for Wellbeing in Public & Community Housing.pdf
  3. Randal, E.
    Logan, A.
    Penny, G.
    Teariki, M.
    Chapman, R.
    Keall, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Transport and Wellbeing of Public Housing Tenants—A Scoping Review
    Urban Science
    9(6):206.
    Transport and Wellbeing of Public Housing Tenants—A Scoping Review
    Randal 2025 Transport and Wellbeing of Public Housing Tenants—A.pdf
  4. Leigh, L.
    Randal, E.
    Logan, A.
    Witten, K.
    Olin, C.
    Chisholm, E.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Cultivating wellbeing: healing effects of an urban māra kai (community garden) in community housing in Aotearoa New Zealand.
    Local Environment.
  5. Penny, G.
    Logan, A.
    Olin, C.
    O’Sullivan, K.
    Robson, B.
    Pehi, T.
    Davies, C.
    Wall, T.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori wellbeing model for housing and urban environments.
    Kotuitui: NZ Journal of Social Sciences Online,
    A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori wellbeing model for housing and urban environments.pdf
    A Whakawhanaungatanga M ori wellbeing model for housing and urban environments.pdf
  6. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Crane, J.
    Keall, M.
    Pierse, N.
    Baker. M. Cunningham, C Amore, K
    Aspinall, C
    Bennett, J.
    Bierre, S.
    Boulic, M
    Chisholm, E.
    Davies, C.
    Fougere, G.
    Fraser, B.
    Fyfe, C.
    Grant, L.
    Grimes, A.
    Halley, C
    Logan, A.
    Nathan, K
    Olin, C.
    Ombler, J.
    O’Sullivan, K.
    Pehi, T.
    Penny, G.
    Phipps, R
    Plagmann, M.
    Randal, E.
    Riggs, L.
    Robson, B.
    Ruru, J Shaw, Caroline
    Teariki, M.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Tiatia, R.
    Toy-Cronin, B Tupara, H
    Viggers, H.
    Wall, T.
    Wilkie, M
    Woodward, A.
    Zhang, W
    He Kāinga Oranga: reflections on 25 years of measuring the improved health, wellbeing and sustainability of healthier housing.
    Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand,
    Online.
  7. Logan, A.
    Housing and Health for Whānau Māori (PhD)
    University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

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