Juliana Mansvelt is a New Zealand social geographer and is a full professor at Massey University, specialising in the geographies of ageing and consumption.

[2] Mansvelt is part of the Health and Ageing Research Team (HART) at Massey University, an interdisciplinary team investigating determinants of health and wellbeing in ageing people.

[5] In 2023 she began a project with Aisling Gallagher on the decisions older people make with regard to housing.

"Our research aims to investigate the political, social and economic landscape in which choices and decisions to divest homes are made, and the choices, decisions and experiences of housing decumulation for people aged 55 and over", Mansvelt said.

She has edited two further books, a guide to "green consumerism" and with Michael Roche and Russell Prince, Engaging Geographies, which is an overview of research relating to landscapes, lifecourses and mobilities.