Publications

Fleckney, P. (2026). Planning parks for adolescent mental health and wellbeing in Melbourne, Australia: bridging the gap between intent and practice. Cities & Health, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2026.2654304

Gatto, M. R., Li, A., Martino, E., & Bentley, R. (2026). The effect of damp housing on psychological distress: does respiratory health matter? American Journal of Epidemiology, kwag042. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwag042

Li, A., & McNaught, R. (2026). Effects of cumulative exposures to climate-related disasters on social capital. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 106210. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420926002220

Li, Y., Singh, A., & Bentley, R. (2026). The protective effect of housing affordability on childhood asthma risk: a longitudinal fixed-effects analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology, kwag013. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwag013

Martino, E., Li, A., & Bentley, R. (2026). Associations between sociodemographic characteristics and medical care use during COVID-19: an Australian study. Internal medicine journal, 10.1111/imj.70380. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.70380

Mason, K., Martino, E., Mansour, A., & Bentley, R. (2026). Rent increases and mental health among low-income renters in Australia: A longitudinal analysis. Social Science & Medicine, 403, 119409. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119409

Bentley, R., & Mason, K. (2025). The importance and challenges of using natural experiments to evaluate the health effects of housing policy: a commentary on Schwartz and Chu’s “Do laws protecting tenants’ health work?: Implied warranties of habitability and respiratory health”. American Journal of Epidemiology, 194(9), 2755-2757. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaf134

Finkelstein, A., Bismark, M., Bentley, R., & Martino, E. (2025). Hoarding disorder, therapeutic jurisprudence and residential tenancy law: A complex relationship and opportunities for reform. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 102, 102125. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2025.102125

Gatto, M. R., Li, A., & Bentley, R. (2025). Health and social impacts of exposure to mould-affected housing in Australia: a qualitative study. Public Health Research and Practice, 35(2), -. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1071/PU24024

Gatto, M. R., Li, A., Martino, E., & Bentley, R. (2025). Damp housing conditions as a determinant of psychological distress: a longitudinal analysis of the British Household Panel Survey. American Journal of Epidemiology, kwaf263. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaf263

Grocott, K., Mansour, A., Shiels, E., Bentley, R., & Mason, K. (2025). Mental health effects of exposure to environmental noise at home: A systematic review of potential mediating pathways. Noise and Health, 27(126). https://journals.lww.com/nohe/fulltext/2025/05000/mental_health_effects_of_exposure_to_environmental.8.aspx

Lam, J., & Li, A. (2025). Effects of climate-related disasters on loneliness, social support, social functioning, and social contacts: longitudinal analyses of impact and recovery. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 10799. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95408-w

Li, A., & Leppold, C. (2025). Long-term mental health trajectories across multiple exposures to climate disasters in Australia: a population-based cohort study. The Lancet Public Health, 10(5), e391-e400. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00068-4

Li, A., Mason, K., Li, Y., & Bentley, R. (2025). The challenges of quantifying the effects of housing on health using observational data. Annals of Epidemiology, 102, 23-27.

Li, A., Toll, M., Candido, C., & Bentley, R. (2025). The validity and accuracy of self-reported measures in assessing indoor mould exposure. Journal of Building Engineering, 111932.

Mansour, A., Gatto, M. R., Rowbotham, S., Bowen, K., & Bentley, R. (2025). Climate-related healthy housing risk factors: a scoping review of citizen science approaches. Environmental Science & Policy, 170, 104102. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104102

Mansour, A., Li, Y., Howard, A., Bell, R., Cartwright, A., Jensen, C., Warren-Myers, G., BEntley, R. (2025). The housing conditions of people with asthma in Australia: A cross-sectional analysis of two nationwide surveys. Indoor Air,  2025.  https://doi.org/10.1155/ina/8156654

Martino, E., Ang, L., & and Bentley, R. (2025). Becoming infrastructured: international graduate researchers and precarious housing. International Journal of Housing Policy, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2025.2515543

McShane, S., Block, K., & Bentley, R. (2025). Harnessing Capital: The Role of Service Providers as Connectors, Supporters and Advocates in Refugee Housing and Settlement in Australia. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2025.2494710

McShane, S., Block, K., Baker, E. et al. (2025). Beyond shelter: a scoping review of evidence on housing in resettlement countries and refugee mental health and wellbeing. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02851-1

McShane, S., Li, A., Block, K., & Bentley, R. (2025). Housing and wellbeing: Long-term precarious housing trajectories following humanitarian migration and resettlement. Social Science & Medicine, 372, 117943. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117943

McShane, S., Block, K., Bentley, R.  (2025). 'I wish I had a house like this' Reimagining home: former-refugee experiences of housing, resettlement and well-being in Australia: A Photovoice study. Population, Space and Place, 31. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70104

Arundel, R., Li, A., Baker, E., & Bentley, R. (2022). Housing unaffordability and mental health: dynamics across age and tenure. International Journal of Housing Policy, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2106541

Baker, E., Daniel, L., Beer, A., Bentley, R., Rowley, S., Baddeley, M., London, K., Stone, W., Nygaard, C., Hulse, K., & Lockwood, A. (2022). An Australian rental housing conditions research infrastructure. Sci Data, 9(1), 33. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01136-5

Baker, E., Daniel, L., Beer, A., Rowley, S., Stone, W., Bentley, R., Caines, R. and Sansom, G. (2022) The impact of the pandemic on the Australian rental sector, AHURI Final Report No. 389, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne, https://www.ahuri.edu.au/research/final-reports/389, https://doi.org/10.18408/ahuri3126701

Bentley, R., Baker, E., Ronald, R., Reeves, A., Smith, S. J., Simons, K., & Mason, K. (2022). Housing affordability and mental health: An analysis of generational change. Housing Studies, 37(10), 1842–1857. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2108380

Fleitas Alfonzo, L., Bentley, R., & Singh, A. (2022). Home ownership, income and oral health of children in Australia—A population‐based study. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 50(3), 156–163. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12646

James, L., Daniel, L., Bentley, R., & Baker, E. (2022). Housing inequality: A systematic scoping review. Housing Studies, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2119211

Lee, S. M., Martino, E., Bismark, M., & Bentley, R. (2022). Evidence to guide ethical decision‐making in the management of older people living in squalor: A narrative review. Internal Medicine Journal, 52(8), 1304–1312. https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.15862

Li, A., Baker, E., & Bentley, R. (2022). Understanding the mental health effects of instability in the private rental sector: A longitudinal analysis of a national cohort. Social Science & Medicine, 296, 114778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114778

Mansour, A., Bentley, R., Baker, E., Li, A., Martino, E., Clair, A., Daniel, L., Mishra, S. R., Howard, N. J., Phibbs, P., Jacobs, D. E., Beer, A., Blakely, T., & Howden-Chapman, P. (2022). Housing and health: An updated glossary. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2022-219085

Martino, E., Mansour, A., & Bentley, R. (2022). Housing vulnerability and COVID-19 outbreaks: when crises collide. Urban Policy and Research.. https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2022.2028616

Martino, E., Yuxi., L, Kali-Opio, J., & Bentley, R. (2022). Between Liminality and a New Life in Australia: What is the effect of Precarious Housing on the Mental Health of Humanitarian Migrants? Cities, 131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103900

Mishra, S. R., Wilson, T., Andrabi, H., Ouakrim, D. A., Li, A., Singh, A., ... & Blakely, T (2022). The Health Gains and Cost Savings of Eradicating Cold Housing in Australia. Available at SSRN 4165606.

Ong ViforJ, R., Singh, R., Baker, E., Bentley, R. and Hewton, J. (2022) Precarious housing and wellbeing: a multi-dimensional investigation, AHURI Final Report No. 373, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne. https://doi.org/10.18408/ahuri8123801

Raynor, K., Panza, L., & Bentley, R. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 shocks, precarity and mediating resources on the mental health of residents of share housing in Victoria, Australia: An analysis of data from a two-wave survey. BMJ Open, 12(4), e058580. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058580

Singh, A., Mizdrak, A., Daniel, L., Blakely, T., Baker, E., Fleitas Alfonzo, L., & Bentley, R. (2022). Estimating cardiovascular health gains from eradicating indoor cold in Australia. Environmental Health, 21(1), 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-022-00865-9

Sook, M., Martino, E., Bismark., M., & Bentley., R. (2022). Evidence to guide ethical decision-making in the management of older people living in squalor: a narrative review. Internal Medicine Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.15862

Vardoulakis, S., Matthews, V., Ford, L. P., Oyarce, D. E., Farrant, B., Johnston, F., Cass, A., Bentley, R., Williams, C., & Chu, C. (2022). Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL): Australian research network in human health and environmental change. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6, S15.  https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00277-7

Atalay, K., Li, A., & Whelan, S. (2021). Housing wealth, fertility intentions and fertility. Journal of Housing Economics, 54, 101787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2021.101787

Baker, E., Pham, A., Leishman, C., Daniel, L., & Bentley, R. (2021). Urban social housing pathways: A linked administrative data analysis. Urban Policy and Research, 39(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2020.1838894212

Bentley, R., Baker, E., Martino, E., Li, Y., & Mason, K. (2021). Alcohol and tobacco consumption: What is the role of economic security? Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15400

Daniel, L., Baker, E., Beer, A., & Pham, N. T. A. (2021). Cold housing: Evidence, risk and vulnerability. Housing Studies, 36(1), 110–130. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2019.1686130

Li, A., Mansour, A., Martino, E., & Bentley, R. (2021). Environmental noise exposure and mental health: an analysis of a longitudinal survey of Australian households. International Journal of Epidemiology, 50(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.02.020

Martino, E., & Bentley., R. (2021). Mapping the riskscape of using privately-owned short-term lets for specialist family violence crisis accommodation. International Journal of Housing Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2021.2002658

Rachele, J. N., Wang, J., Wijnands, J. S., Zhao, H., Bentley, R., & Stevenson, M. (2021). Using machine learning to examine associations between the built environment and physical function: A feasibility study. Health & Place, 70, 102601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102601

Zachreson, C., Martino, E., Tomko, M., Shearer, F.M., Bentley, R., & Geard, N. (2021). Mapping home internet activity during COVID-19 lockdown to identify occupation related inequalities. Scientific Reports, Nature, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00553-7

Baker, E., Lester, L., Mason, K., & Bentley, R. (2020). Mental health and prolonged exposure to unaffordable housing: A longitudinal analysis. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 55(6), 715–721. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01849-1

Baker, E., Daniels, L., Pawson, H., Baddeley, M., Vij, A., Stephens, M., Phibbs, P., Clair, A., Beer, A., Power, E., Bentley, R., Kulik, C., Sinha, R., Stone, W., Dignam, J., London, K., Rowley, S., Hulse, K., Nygaard, C., Holst, H., Leishman, C., Rogers, D., Jacobs, K., Beer, A., and Bentley, R. (2020) Rental Insights: A COVID-19 Collection, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne, https://www.ahuri.edu.au/research/research-papers/rental-insights-a-covid-19-collection, https://doi:10.18408/ahuri3125402

Bentley, R., & Baker, E. (2020). Housing at the frontline of the COVID-19 challenge: A commentary on “Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts.” Soc Sci Med, 265, 113534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113534

Foster, S., Hooper, P., Kleeman, A., Martino, E., & Giles-Corti, B. (2020). The high life: A policy audit of apartment design guidelines and their potential to promote health and wellbeing. Cities, 96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102420

Martino, E., Yon, A., & Whitzman, C. (2020). Planning with care: Violence prevention policy at the intersection of invisibilities. Cities, 103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102764

Singh, A., Aitken, Z., Baker, E., & Bentley, R. (2020). Do financial hardship and social support mediate the effect of unaffordable housing on mental health? Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 55(6), 705–713. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-019-01773-z