Linda joined the Faculty in mid-1999 as Head of the Program of Landscape Architecture having previously worked in private practice as a planner and landscape architect in the United States, Hong Kong and Australia. She held the position of Head of Program for four years (1999-2003). Following that, she served as FBE’s Head of School (2005-2005) and Associate Dean, International (2006) and Director, International and Community Engagement (2007).
During her tenure as Head of School, Linda initiated and implemented FBEOutThere!, a special management unit within the Faculty to undertake interdisciplinary, service learning activities and developed a generic elective template for these courses (2006). She also introduced and ran sessional staff induction workshops in conjunction with the UNSW Learning and Teaching Unit (2004-2005).
Linda contributes to University committees as a member of the UNSW Gender Equity Strategy Committee and on the Management Committee of the Australian Human Rights Centre based in the UNSW School of Law. She was active in the Women Research 21 Program (2000) and was one of 20 women from across UNSW selected for the inaugural Academic Women in Leadership Program (2006).
Areas of special interest and expertise include: people/place relationships, children’s play and learning environments, park and open space planning and design, design education and education for sustainability.
LAND1221 People: Place: Design; co-convenes LAND1322 Urban Landscape Design Seminar; and has taught various design studios in Years 1-3 of the Program. She has also convened a number of interdisciplinary service learning studios that engaged students from across the programs in the FBE on design projects with various community groups.
Australian Research Council Linkage Project (co-Chief Investigator with Nancy Marshall), “People and Parks: The Real Value of Open Space in Western Sydney” (2005-2008)
Architects Registration Board Research Project, “Learning through the Built Environment,” (with FBEOutThere! team) (2007)
UNSW Learning and Teaching Grant, “Understanding the Self-Directed Research Process in the Graduation Year in All Undergraduate Programs Within FBE”, team led by Ann Quinlan and Nancy Marshall (2006)
FBE Research Project, “Community Gardens and Neighbourhood Renewal in Waterloo” (with Susan Thompson and Bruce Judd) (2000-2002)
Corkery, L. 2008. Connecting young children with nature in ‘densifying’ Australian cities, Children and Youth Environments, (in press).
Corkery, L. 2008, Designing enabling outdoor environments for home and community, in Jones, D. et al. Raising the Bar: The Design of Housing for the Aged and Disabled, RAIA publication, Sydney (in press).
Quinlan, A., Corkery, L. and Roche, B. 2008, Learning enabling design: approaching mutuality in an educational environment, in Jones, D. et al. Raising the Bar: The Design of Housing for the Aged and Disabled, RAIA publication, Sydney (in press).
Quinlan, A., Marshall, N., Corkery, L. 2007. Revealing student perceptions of excellence in studio design projects, ConnectED Conference, July 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Corkery, L., Roche, B., Romero, V., Grant, A. 2007, “They Should Fix the Crack”, final research project report to the Architects Registration Board, Sydney
Corkery, L. 2007. “Aquativity”, Landscape Architecture Australia, May 2007, pp
Corkery, L. 2007, Connecting children with nature in Australian cities, Sydney’s Child, August 2007, pp (and five other cities’ Child publications; total circulation: 1,000,000)
Corkery. L., Roche, B., Watson, K., Zehner, B. 2007. Transforming design studio learning and teaching through real world, interdisciplinary projects, ConnectED Conference, July 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Judd, B., Baldry, E., Corkery, L. 2007. Connecting the dots: Designers and social workers learning in community, ConnectED Conference, July 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Quinlan, A., Corkery, L., Marshall, N. 2007. Positioning the design tutor’s presence in the design studio for successful student learning, ConnectED Conference, July 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Thompson, S., Corkery, L., Judd, B. 2007. The role of community gardens in sustaining healthy communities, State of Australian Cities Conference, Adelaide, November 2007.
Corkery, L. 2007. Learning and Teaching Across Disciplinary Cultures in Built Environment Design Education, Seminar on Design Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, January 2007.
Quinlan, A., and Corkery, L. 2007. Locating learning: articulating Boyer’s scholarships of integration and application, ISSOTL Conference, July 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney (refereed poster paper).
Corkery,L. 2007. Transforming Design Studio Learning and Teaching through Real World, Interdisciplinary Projects, ConnectED Conference, July 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Watson, K. and Corkery, L. 2007. Designing ‘in person’"locally and globally, DEFSA, Capetown, South Africa, October 2007.
Corkery, L. 2007, Designing with Community to Deliver a New Model of Care: The Wollongong Clubhouse Project, Centre for Health Assets Australasia Conference, Febrruary 2007, University of New South Wales.
Corkery, L. 2007. Service Learning Across Disciplines in Built Environment Design Education, Association of Integrated Studies, Arizona State University, September 2007, Tempe.
Corkery, L. 2006, “FBEOutThere! Design for the Real World”, AR Journal, No.87, June 2006, p. 22.
Corkery, L. 2006, “Constructing a Support Structure for Sessional Staff in the Faculty of the Built Environment”, Best Practice Guide No.5, UNSW Learning and Teaching Unit publication, Sydney
Corkery, L. 2006, How can community planning support nature education for young children? Invited keynote speaker, Nature Action Collaborative for Children, Inaugural Conference, Nebraska, USA, October 2006.
Corkery, L. and Evans, C. “Park-City Edge Effect: mapping the social and environmental ecotones of three Sydney parklands”, for the State of Australian Cities Conference, December 2005, Griffith University, Brisbane.
Corkery, L. 2004, “Community Gardens as a Platform for Education for Sustainability”, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 20, no.1, pp. 69-75.
Corkery, L. 2004, “Students’ Perceptions of Excellence in Landscape Architecture Studio Projects: A UNSW Perspective”, Landscape Review, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 80-85.
Corkery, L. 1997. 'The Risks of Designing Playgrounds', Public Works Engineering Journal, September 1997.
Corkery, L. (ed.) 1995. Plan It! Guidelines for the Development of Early Childhood Play Environments. NSW Health.
Corkery, L. 1988. 'Beyond the Playground: Making Open Spaces Child-Friendly Places'. In Open Spaces, People Places, Proceedings of the RAIPR Bicentennial Conference October 1988.
Corkery, L. 1987. Playspace. Handbook for Planning Outdoor Play Environments. Network of Community Activities.
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