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Cities Research Institute Newsletter
Issue 2 - December 2021
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A Message from the Director
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Dear Colleagues
It is good to come to the end of another year that challenged many of us with new teaching practices and expectations and some practical problems in traveling to carry out fieldwork, by celebrating the promotion of a number of Institute members.
Anne Roiko, Cheryl Desha and Ki-Hoon Lee were all promoted to full professorships in well-deserved recognition of their research excellence, especially in inter-disciplinary collaborative work.
Professor Roiko is a member of the School of Pharmacy and Medicine and is recognised for her research in environmental health science and water quality monitoring and Professor Lee is from the School of Business Strategy and Innovation and works in the field of corporate sustainability and supply chain management. Professor Desha is an engineer with wide-ranging research interests in biophilic design, spatial analysis and emergency management planning and in 2020 was awarded the Queensland Government's Individual Champion of Change Award by the Inspector General Emergency Management.
Drs Hassan Karampour and William Bennett were promoted to Associate Professor in recognition of their growing global reputations for high quality research in structural engineering and environmental chemistry respectively. Both embody the Institute’s commitment to combining work of the highest scholarly standards with practical application and industry engagement.
In this last newsletter of 2021, we share some fantastic stories of research success and recognition by Institute members. These stories also show the breadth of expertise of our members as well as our enthusiasm for working across disciplinary boundaries and in partnership with colleagues beyond the University.
Please get in touch with any of the staff mentioned if you would like to know more about their work and if you would like to explore new research opportunities feel free to get in touch with me or with Dr Savindi Caldera, our Research Project Development Manager.
In the new year we look forward to welcoming in person Professor Rosalind Archer, our new Head of the School of Engineering and Built Environment. Professor Archer joins Griffith from the University of Auckland where she was Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and President of Engineering New Zealand.
Finally, it was with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Uncle Graham Dillon OAM DUniv, a deeply respected Kombumerri Elder and Co-Chair of Griffith’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Council of Elders. Uncle Graham made a significant contribution to the University and especially to our Gold Coast campus over three decades and when I arrived in Australia he welcomed me to the city and to the lands of his people. He also attended a number of important events for the Institute, including the launch of its predecessor, the Cities Research Centre and was always interested in and supportive of our work. On behalf of the Institute, I pay my respects to the legacy and memory of Uncle Graham and look forward to working with other members of the Dillon family and other Kombumerri people for the good of his country and our city.
Regards
Paul Burton
Director, Cities Research Institute
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Research Highlights
Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL)
Professor Scott Baum is a member of the team recently awarded a $10 million grant under the NHMRC Special Initiative in Human Health and Environmental Change Research Network scheme, which was announced by the Federal Health Minister on November 16.
The successful consortium, including Griffith as a core member and titled Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL), is led by ANU, has 100 University investigators across the nation with support from various levels of government, Indigenous organisations, NGOs, and key policymakers and stakeholders. Professor Cordia Chu, Dr Dung Phung and Scott are the three named Griffith investigators in the proposal.
This funding call by NHMRC is unique and historically significant, driven by an urgent need to stimulate innovative solutions to address rapid environmental change, health emergencies and disasters that impact human health.
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Wellcome winners!
The EtHOs project, as part of Griffith's Climate Action Beacon, and co-led by Dr Shannon Rutherford, Dr Sebastion Binnewies, and Dr Aaron Bach has been awarded $2.35 million over three years by global charitable foundation Wellcome to help reduce the thousands of lives lost each year to heat stress. The project has 12 members across a range of disciplines including Medicine, Public Health, ICT, Human Physiology, Economics, Architecture, and Climate Change.
Two members of the research team are members of Cities Research Institute, Dr Fan Zhang and Dr Aaron Bach.
This project is targeted at older people who are already vulnerable to heat because of their reduced capacity to thermoregulate and higher rates than younger people of comorbidities. These risks become even more pronounced because of inadequate building design, increasing urban heat island effects, and worsening climate change. We plan to meet the urgent and unmet need for innovative solutions that will enable older people, especially those who are isolated or socially disadvantaged, to monitor and mitigate these extreme heat effects. The project will develop a technology-based, individualised early warning system to protect vulnerable older people from increased heat risks. This early warning system will be specific to the users’ home environment, monitoring conditions in real-time, adjusting risk based on this environment and the individuals’ characteristics, and sending alerts based on their need for and access to relevant cooling options.
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Developing a social and affordable housing investment tool
The current social and affordable housing market is facing several challenges associated with long waiting lists and growing homelessness. Developing a tool to validate government investment in this asset class can help these challenges. COVID impacts will be considered in developing this tool, recognising disruptions such as labour force and supply chain shortages, difficulties in worker mobility, and extremely low vacancy rates and rising rental costs.
The research will operationalise previous SBEnrc supported research including the nine impact domains, the composite return on investment (CROI) framework, and industry network maps which can be found at SBEnrc. As industry-focused and collaborative research, industry, government, not-for-profit and research partners will work together to develop this tool, identifying ways to improve delivery and help facilitate whole-of-government spending in this sector.
The research will contribute to improved industry practice through the active engagement of both State housing agencies and Treasury in both WA and Queensland, and commercial and not-for profit partners to improve alignment between government and market mechanisms.
Further information regarding this research can be obtained by contacting: Sacha Reid (Project Leader) or Judy Kraatz.
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National University Wood Challenge
Associate Professor Hassan Karampour and his team were one of four finalists nominated in the Australian Government's University Wood Challenge. Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries, Senator Jonno Duniam said “Competitions like the NUWC are an important pathway to developing new ideas that could put industries on a more sustainable pathway.
The challenge of the NUWC was for small teams of academics and university students to come up with innovative ideas that use wood to create sustainable, everyday items the world needs.
Hassan's winning idea is to use wood fibres as an alternative to concrete, using wood to fill steel tubes which can then be used for construction. They have won $20,000 to test and develop this idea.
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Coastal resilience
Professors Dong-Sheng Jeng, Amir Etemad-Shahidi, Hong Zhang and Rodger Tomlinson are collaborating in a bid, led by the University of Melbourne, to establish an ARC Centre of Excellence in in Coupled Hydrodynamics and Integrated Marine Earth Systems (CHIMES). This aims to identify, focus on and resolve the full set of integrated wind-wave-ocean-ice coupled problems across its diverse geographic environments, including the nearshore zone, from the Tropics to polar seas, at forecast (hours to weeks) rather than climate (years to decades) scales.
The coastal resilience team within CRI continues to work with Byron Shire Council and the NSW government on headland bypassing processes that have led to recent severe coastal erosion in Byron and hope to develop better predictive models of severe and damaging events.
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Gold Coast Futures
Heather Shearer and Paul Burton are part of a team, led by Professor Andy Bennett, conducting an audit of cultural infrastructure across the Gold Coast. Ranging from major new facilities like HOTA, to open air markets, pop-up galleries and new performance spaces, Heather is mapping existing facilities while Paul is examining the way new facilities and emerging activities are helped or hindered by the planning scheme and other regulatory regimes. The project is designed to feed into a possible review of the city’s cultural strategy.
We intend making a new post-doctoral Research Fellow appointment next year to extend our partnership with the Strategic Infrastructure team at the City of Gold to develop new applications from the City’s Planning and Urban Growth model.
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Construction innovation
In 2021, our Construction Innovation research group has focused on two major research projects this year: progressive collapse resistance of reinforced concrete flat plate structures and post-and-beam mass timber buildings. Flat plate structures are vulnerable to punching shear failure at their slab-column joints, potentially triggering catastrophic progressive collapse, which continues to happen worldwide. In collaboration with China’s Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Technology, our team has conducted large-scale static and dynamic tests and numerical studies on flat plate substructures under various column removal scenarios and slab-column joints with opposite punching directions, varying structural parameters and under concentric and eccentric loading conditions.
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Professor Hong Guan and Associate Professor Benoit Gilbert secured an ARC Discovery Project worth over $380k on "Innovative Composite Systems with Enhanced Resilience to Extreme Loads", led by Prof Tuan Ngo from the University of Melbourne. Benoit was also part of a team winning an Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research grant of $2.78 million on “Coconut and other non-traditional forest resources for the manufacture of Engineered Wood Products”.
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| L to R: Miss Xinyi Cheng (PhD near completion), Dr Ian Underhill, Prof Hong Guan, A/Prof Benoit Gilbert, Mr Mahyar Masaeli (PhD near completion), A/Prof Hassan Karampour, Dr Chunhao Lyu (Postdoc Research Fellow). |
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Climate adaptation science
Helping coastal councils adapt
In late October, Michael Howes was invited to speak at the Local Government Association of Queensland conference held in Mackay where he gave a presentation and then participated in a panel discussion for the Coastal Councils Forum on ‘Adapting to Change and Building Resilience in Coastal Communities’. Eighteen coastal councils were represented at the forum by their Mayors and CEOs.
Michael was able to discuss his work on climate adaptation and a new research project that deals with options for financing managed retreat. This new project builds on a pilot program undertaken by Andrew Buckwell and Ian Edwards, and includes Aysin Dedekorkut Howes and Johanna Nalau from the Adaptation Science research group. For more information about the project, please contact Michael Howes.
Johanna Nalau had an important paper on the implementation of adaptation measures published in the prestigious journal, Nature Climate Change, available at:
Nalau, J. (2021). Assessing adaptation implementation. Nature Climate Change, 11(11), 907-908. doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01200-9 A short explanation of a new study that reviewed over 1600 academic papers on adaptation implementation.
Dr Nalau also wrote a piece for Griffith University's Enlighten series on the need to discuss adaptation as part of COP26 and has recently taken part in a Griffith University video and discussed UN Sustainable Development Goal 13; Climate Action with our Vice Chancellor and Professor Chris Fleming of the Griffith Institute for Tourism (GIFT) which you can see here. SDG 13 Climate Action video.
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Transport
Dr Abraham Leung recently secured a $240,000 Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellow grant from the Queensland Government. The project titled Transforming Queensland Tourism with Micro-Transport also attracted additional cash and in-kind funding for a total project value of almost $815,000. He and the research team at CRI are looking into a new phenomenon that is gathering pace worldwide – Mobility as Service, which enables users to plan, book and pay for transport and other services using a single platform. Abraham plans to trial and test the platform in Townsville and Brisbane, with industry partners from Department of Transport and Main Roads, Brisbane City Council, Townsville City Council, Neuron Mobility and Beam Mobility, looking in particular at its potential to enhance tourism experiences.
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Advance Queensland Fellowships recipients Dr Tak Kim, Dr Abraham Leung and Dr Shahla Hosseini Bai with Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) Professor Sheena Reilly (centre).
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Our transport group has welcomed into their team Daniel Clarke, who with his brother William was the 2021 Queensland Young Australian of the Year, to help prepare a major ARC-Linkage bid on community transport. Involving this decorated young researcher from the disability sector is already proving helpful in developing the grant's research approach and methods and we hope this first collaboration will transition to a longer-term appointment with the team. Special thanks to Griffith's Industry & External Engagement team for helping identify Daniel's talent and for providing additional support.
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| L to R: PhD candidate Yiping Yan and Daniel Clarke |
CRI Deputy Director Matthew Burke was awarded the first ever Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence Award in the category of "Research Engagement" and noted "This recognises our transport research team's long history of trying to do research that has real-world impact, and Matthew's role working with and for the transport agencies. The award was primarily due to our successful collaborations with public sector partners in Queensland Government (Transport and Main Roads, the Motor Accident and Insurance Commission), Brisbane City Council and the City of Gold Coast, grants and partnerships with private sector businesses like Qld Airports Ltd, Neuron and Beam and, the strong representation of our teams in local professional associations like the AITPM and PedBikeTrans."
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Matthew Burke (centre) with our Vice-Chancellor Carolyn Evans and Chancellor Henry Smerdon.
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Transport team PostDoc Fellow Dr Abraham Leung was a guest on Asia's leading public transport podcast, Wham Bam Tram, discussing ferries in Hong Kong and what the city might learn from Brisbane. Available on all mainstream podcast platforms.
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Water and waste
Children’s book delivers valuable water saving message to Torres Strait kids
Associate Professor Cara Beal together with co-writer Aunty Regina Turner recently launched their not-for-profit children’s book, cowritten with Andrew Hanifan and illustrated by Edwin Turner.
Aunty Mati The Water-Saving Superhero is set on one of the many islands in Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait). Endorsed and supported by both the Torres Strait Regional Authority and Torres Strait Island Regional Council (TSIRC). This marvellous book is aimed at primary school children and starts a fun conversation about the importance of being water-efficient in their community and showing that saving water is an important part of caring for country. Funding was provided by Griffith University through the Cities Research Institute, the Climate Action Beacon and our Industry and External Engagement Office.
The book was launched on Poruma (Coconut Island) during the Water Operators Forum held by Torres Strait Island Regional Council and Qld Health, where Cara and Dr Mel Jackson also delivered a number of training sessions on water conservation. A second launch at the Gab Titui Cultural Centre on Thursday Island saw over 50 school children and staff from three schools in the region come together to share arts, crafts and traditional stories about water to celebrate the book launch. Read more on Aunty Mati here.
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| Aunty Mati the Water-saving Hero |
Thursday Island students and Assoc Prof Cara Beal |
First Darwin Harbour Integrated Report Card launched in October
This is a collaborative effort between Charles Darwin University (led by Prof Karen Gibb), Darwin Harbour Advisory Committee, The Ian Potter Foundation and several other industry partners along with Griffith University and the International Water Centre. Associate Professor Cara Beal leads the Queensland research team which includes Project Manager Simon Costanzo from Darwinian Consulting, to build The Darwin Harbour Integrated Report Card which will report on the ecological, social, Indigenous cultural, and economic health of Darwin Harbour. This short video nicely summarises the report card.
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| L to R: Dr Simon Costanzo, Professor Scott Bowman, Lorraine Williams, Prof Karen Gibb, Assoc. Prof Cara Beal |
PROGRESSing resilient water-energy services in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities
The Program of research to Generate Resilient Essential services in remote regions (PROGRESS) partnership is a project seed-funded by Griffith's Climate Action Beacon which brings together industry, community and research partners to improve the sustainability and resilience of remote water, energy and waste systems in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities. The project team includes A/Prof Cara Beal, Dr Melissa Jackson, Prof Rodney Stewart, Prof Anne Roiko from CRI with Dr Wade Hadwen, Dr Regina Souter and Rosie Sanderson from the Australian Rivers Institute. Many activities have taken place this year including conference and workshop presentations, the children's book launch (see above), industry partner workshops, and a recently submitted ARC Linkage proposal which, if successful, will start in 2022. You can find more information on our PROGRESS page.
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| Dr Melissa Jackson running a workshop |
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Conferences and symposia
UN Sustainable Development Goal 11, Target 7 International Workshop
An International Workshop organised by Dr Joanne Dolley, Prof Caryl Bosman, Dr Tony Matthews and Dr Natalie Osborne (GCSCR), and supported by the CRI, was held on the 11th of November, to explore UN Sustainable Development Goal 11, Target 7: “ To create safe, inclusive green and public spaces that cater for all, including women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities”.
Professor Jua Cilliers (Head of UTS School of Built Environment) provided an insightful opening address about green public spaces as an essential service of cities. Dr Sara Alidoust (UQ and CRI alumnus) followed with fascinating research on the effect of COVID-19 on people’s perceptions of public spaces. A/Prof Paul Harpur (UQ) gave a powerful talk about universal design in relation to disabled persons moving about public space freely. Greg Kitson introduced a session on social and cultural inclusivity of public spaces with his talk on Indigenous Community Planning; followed by Dr Indigo Willing (GCSCR) & Chris Giamarino (UCLA) on Skateboarding in public space; Dr Samid Suliman (GCSCR) spoke on the politics of public spaces; and Prof Andrew Gorman-Murray (UWS) on making space for LGBTIQ+ people.
The session on Designing and Activating Accessible Public Spaces included talks by A/Prof. Geoff Woolcock (USQ) and Dr Mimi Tsai (QUT) on designing spaces for different ages; Dr Keiran Hardy (GCI), Dr David Sargent (CARI) & Dr Joanne Dolley (CRI) on gamifying design of public spaces; and Dr Tanja Beer’s (QCA, CRI) wonderful stories of activating public spaces through art and theatre.
The final session focused on sharing and navigating public spaces, with a panel chat on multispecies encounters in public space with Dr Amelia Hine (UoW) and Dr Rebecca Olive (UQ); and a comparison of Brisbane and Copenhagen on wayfinding with the virus from A/Prof. Kaya Barry (Aalborg University). We were joined by the CRI Director, CRI colleagues and PhD candidates from several SEQ universities.
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| UNSDG Workshop attendees with Dr Joanne Dolley (Far left) |
Australian Residential Energy Rating Conference
Dr Fan Zhang gave an invited speech on “Managing indoor environmental quality” at the Australian Residential Energy Rating virtual conference held in November (ARER 2021). The ARER Conference plays an important role in Australia’s energy sector, forging links between energy assessors, builders, architects, regulators, researchers, and academics. Dr Zhang talked about the indoor environmental quality monitoring studies that she carried out in Brisbane and Gold Coast homes as part of her New Researcher Grant project.
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SoAC21 – Congratulations to our CRI contributors
The 2021 State of Australasian Cities (SoAC) conference was held online this year and hosted collaboratively by RMIT University, Monash University, Swinburne University and the University of Melbourne. Cities Research Institute was represented across several of the conference tracks.
Dr Joanne Dolley delivered her paper ‘Playing it safe: Co-designing safe, inclusive, sustainable and resilient future cities’ in the City Health and Liveability track. PhD Candidate, Yiping Yan, presented in the City Movement and Infrastructure track about ‘improving commuter market segmentation in Australian’s strategic transport models to ensure cities plan for all commuters, especially women’.
Greg Kitson, PhD Candidate, received the SoAC Early Career Researcher Conference Award in the City Nature and Environment track for ‘Indigenous Community Planning: the land transition history of Barambin and opportunities for ‘Country’ in planned public green spaces of Meeanjin and South East Queensland’.
All great achievements for the CRI Team!
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Reaching out beyond the academy
CRI Alumnus wins big!
2021 has been a fantastic year for Dr Chris Boulton, CRI adjunct and founder and director of The CityGreen Lab. Chris's dissertation entitled "Is there a better approach to providing urban greenspace?" supervised by Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes and Catherine Pickering of Griffith University and Jason Byrne of University of Tasmania received four awards from the three professional organisations in her field including:
- Parks and Leisure Australia Queensland Award of Excellence for Research,
- Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Queensland Landscape Architecture Award,
- a commendation in Planning Research category at the Planning Institute of Australia Queensland Awards for Excellence. This was all capped by Parks and Leisure Australia National Research Award in November.
Chris used comparative case studies of two fast-growing, mid-sized cities in Australia and Canada to reveal insider perspectives and inform seven key principles for practitioners. Read more about them here. Congratulations Chris!
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| Dr Chris Boulton receiving her many awards |
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Awards and promotions
Griffith Planning students and alumni win awards from the Planning Minister and Planning Institute of Australia
Minister's Planning Awards 2021
Griffith Planning Students featured strongly in the 2021 Minister's Planning Awards winning two of the four awards in three categories from among seven Queensland universities.
Third year student Ruby Stockham won the Most Promising Female Student in Planning award. Ruby has formerly won a PIA Student Bursary in 2019. This makes it two for two for Griffith students in this category as the inaugural award in 2019 was awarded to Griffith student Jasmine Divall (https://news.griffith.edu.au/2019/06/03/it-all-goes-to-plan-for-griffith-students-at-the-ministers-planning-awards/).
Fourth year student Aidan Johnston won in the new category best set topic on ‘Advancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge, culture and tradition’.
Ruby and Aidan are awarded with a month-long paid internship at the Queensland Department of State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning. You can read Ruby and Aidan's thoughts on the awards here.
Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) Queensland 2021 Awards for Excellence
Griffith Alumnus and member of our new Planning Program Industry Reference Group, Madison Ruygrok, also a CRI adjunct, received a commendation in Young Planner of the Year category.
Civity consultancy, co-founded by Griffith Alumnus Liam Morris was part of the team that received a Wendy Chadwick Encouragement Award for their project ENVI Micro Urban Village. More information on the awards is available here.
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L to R: Minister's Planning Award winner Aidan Johnston (‘Advancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge, culture and tradition’), Minister's Planning Award winner Ruby Stockham (most promising Female Student in Planning), PIA commendation recipient in Planning Research Dr Chris Boulton of the CityGreen Lab, PIA Commendation recipient in Young Planner of the Year Madison Ruygrok, PIA Wendy Chadwick Encouragement Award winner Civity's cofounder and Director Liam Morris.
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New Books and Publications
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Yurlendj-nganjin
On 8 July 2021, the book “Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Yurlendj-nganjin” was published through Cambridge-Scholar. Yurlendj-nganjin is a Woi Wurrung phrase that means ‘everyone’s knowledge / ‘our intelligence’. The resource is a collection of works by Aboriginal scholars and students in response to Australia’s built environments. The book is an edited work by Cities Research Institute’s Emeritus Professor Darryl Low Choy and Adjunct Associate Professor David Jones (formerly of Deakin University) who state “Yurlendj-ngangin is about opening one’s eyes up to the knowledge of the original, and continuing, First Nations and peoples of Australia’s lands and waters.”
The genesis of the book is from the 2017 ‘Gathering’ of Indigenous Australians who form part of the built environment discipline, and sector as practitioners and researchers. The ‘Gathering’ built on an earlier research collaboration, of which Darryl and David were both fundamental contributors. The earlier research, ‘Re-casting Terra Nullius Blindness: Empowering Indigenous Protocols and Knowledge in Australian University Built Environment Education’ mapped and appraised the lack of Indigenous Knowledge Systems within architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. This work received the 2020 award for Cutting Edge Research & Teaching from the Planning Institute of Australia.
This new book expands on the issues that continue to confront Aboriginal Peoples and their concerns about the future of their custodial landscapes. The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects have recognised the book as being of national significance through inclusion in their ‘Connection to Country: Case Studies’. The book is another major resource for all academics, students and practitioners in the built environment sector and can be purchased here.
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Burton, P. and Dedekorkut-Howes, A. (2021) ‘Banana benders and cockroaches: Cross-border planning for Gold Coast-Tweed Heads’, in Twin Cities across Five Continents: Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders, Ekaterina Mikhailova and John Garrard (eds) London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003102526
Love, M.W., Beal, C.D., Gonzalez Botero, D., Hagabore, J., Benjamin, C., Bogoro, H., Panda, N., Souter, RT (2021) Challenges and opportunities with social inclusion and community-based water management in Solomon Islands. Development Policy Review, accepted Aug 28, 2021.
Meyer, B, Nguyen, K., Beal, C.D., Jacobs, H., Buchberger, S. (2021) Apportioning household water use events as indoor use and outdoor use in the presence of rudimentary data. Journal of Water Resources Panning and Management, DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001471.
Nguyen, T-H., O. Sahin, M, Howes. 2021. “Climate change adaptation for farmers in Asia: Key influences and Barriers.” Sustainability. 13(13), 7346. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/13/7346
Shooshtarian, S., Caldera, S., Maqsood, T., Ryley, T. and Khalfan, M. (2021). An investigation into challenges and opportunities in the Australian construction and demolition waste management system. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management [Q1, IF:3.53] Doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-05-2021-043
Caldera, S., Mostafa, S., Desha C. & Mohamed, S. (2021) Exploring the Role of Digital Infrastructure Asset Management Tools for Resilient Linear Infrastructure Outcomes in Cities and Towns: A Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132111965 [Q1, IF: 3.25]
Caldera, S., Desha, C. & Dawes, L., (2021). Applying Cynefin framework to explore the experiences of engineering educators undertaking ‘emergency remote teaching’ during the COVID-19 pandemic. Australasian Journal of Engineering Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/22054952.2021.2001128 [Q2]
Desha, C., Caldera, S., Hutchinson, D. (2021) Exploring the development of context appreciation in coursework that targets problem-solving for sustainable development. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-01-2020-0024 [Q2, IF:2.84]
Caldera, S., Mostafa, S., Desha C. & Mohamed, S., (2021) Integrating disaster management planning into road infrastructure asset management. Infrastructure Asset Management. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.21.00012
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CRC RACE 2030
We are pleased to welcome Cynthia Coyne as a new PhD candidate associated with the CRC RACE for 2030 (Reliable Affordable Clean Energy) PhD scholarship program. Cynthia is the successful recipient of a recent scholarship provided by Horizon Power and Western Power.
Cynthia is a First Nations Australian woman born in Katherine. She has socio-cultural and kinship affiliations to the Yawuru and Jukun peoples of Broome, and Jaru people in the East Kimberley. Cynthia's research will look at the socio-cultural aspects of renewable microgrids in Indigenous communities commencing February 2022 under the supervision of Associate Professor Cara Beal and Dr Melissa Jackson.
Read more about Cynthia and her PhD and research interests here.
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Australian Postgraduate Research Intern (APR.Intern)
Majed Abuseif recently completed an internship facilitated by APR. Intern, which is part of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. The internship is supported by the Australian Government Department of Education. Majed has also published an article in Science Direct on The effect of green roof configurations including trees in a subtropical climate: A co-simulation parametric study. Majed Abuseif, Karine Dupre, Ruby N.Michael
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Resilient Byron
Rebecca McNaught who, while undertaking her PhD, is also a research co-leader on the not-for-profit community volunteer led organisation, Resilient Byron, recently conducted a survey to discover what ideas communities across the Byron Shire had when it comes to food security, water security, housing security, energy security, health and wellbeing, neighbourhood support and more.
Rebecca and her team then analysed the data, and compiled it into a series of one-page posters. The action-packed ideas were generated during the Byron Shire Resilience and Regeneration Roadshow which was undertaken with Renew Fest. The roadshow encourages local communities to connect, share, listen and work on concrete ideas to take on the challenges presented by bushfires and floods, the economic and housing crisis, and COVID. See the posters and more information on Rebecca and her team's work here.
Rebecca has been busy this year, winning the Business School 3 Minute Thesis competition for her topic 'Local-level collaboration for resilience', where PhD students explain their research to lay people in 3 minutes. No easy feat! Congratulations Rebecca!
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