Associate Professor Geoffrey Woolcock is an urban sociologist based at Griffith University and is particularly interested in both indicators of social sustainability and the factors that contribute to child- and youth- friendly communities. His work with large-scale public and private sector organisations concentrated on developing measures of communities' strength alongside national and international efforts to measure well-being led by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In particular, he is focusing on qualitative and quantitative indicators of child-friendly communities across the Australian Urban Landscape. He is an experienced social researcher with considerable expertise in social and community service planning and evaluation, including social impact assessment and project evaluation. He has 20 years community-based research experience nationally and internationally, in housing, youth and health sectors, particularly HIVand AIDS prevention and education, culminating in his PhD thesis on AIDS activism completed in 2000.