Janice Lovelock

Janice is a qualified civil engineer with chartered status, having graduated from Sydney University in 2009 with a bachelors degree in Science and a bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales (NSW) in 2016 with a masters degree in Engineering Science. She has worked professionally for consulting companies in the geotechnical engineering and highway engineering fields on many major NSW infrastructure projects and also in New Zealand in 2011 as part of the Christchurch Earthquake recovery effort. She currently works in the AECOM's Highways team and was involved in supporting the technical advisory role for Rozelle Interchange and, more recently, M7M12 Interchange, developing the reference design and supporting the procurement for Transport for NSW. She has a keen interest in engineering from a technical perspective, and her passion for the social benefits engineers can bring to our community is driven by her new perspective as a wheelchair user after sustaining a permanent spinal cord injury in 2019. Being an engineer, a mother, and a wheelchair user, Janice finds these aspects to make her experience of the world individual and unique. She believes we are obligated to consider the experience of diverse community members to produce optimal (and inclusive) solutions for all. Believing that building inclusive, accessible, safer and more user-friendly transport infrastructure means a better outcome for all. She is particularly passionate about this, and she wishes to raise awareness in this space, most recently presenting at the Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management National Conference 2022, presenting on Transport through the lens of an engineer with a mobility disability.