A/Professor Nicole Kalms

Nicole Kalms is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture founding director of the Monash University XYX Lab which leads national and international research in Gender and Place.

The innovation of Kalms’ research is the examination of digital, experiential, political and material interventions collated to articulate both the shared and conflicted struggles of women and girls internationally. Her praxis repositions design as a strategic tool for challenging gender inequity and gender-neutral urban policy. Her recent research has focused on public transport spaces for women and girls, gender-sensitive CPTED, the strategic use of women’s safety audits, and the engaging diverse stakeholders in participatory co-design.

Kalms is author of ‘Hypersexual City” (Routledge, 2017), co-editor of “Contentious Cities (Routledge, 2021) and the forthcoming handbook “SheCity” (Bloomsbury, 2022).