UNSW Built Environment awards recognition to staff and research students for excellence in research in
up to four categories: Senior Researcher, Early Career Researcher, Research Team and
Research Student (Masters and Doctorate).
Built Environment Research Excellence Awards 2007
Category of Senior Researcher
Associate Professor Susan Thompson
Category of Research Student
Maria Kordmanshidi
Full Citations for the 2007 Awards
By Acting Associate Dean/Research Robert Freestone
Associate Professor Susan Thompson
Susan joined the Built Environment in 1991 and since that time has established an impressive suite of research achievements however measured.
Her work has focused primarily on social matters such as cultural diversity, community renewal and healthy cities. She has invariably approached such issues through the lens of qualitative techniques as a powerful means for understanding the complexities of the interrelationships between, people, places and planning.
Through publications, grants, conferences and media channels she has explored the bridges between academic research and professional practice around a paradigm of planning with people at its centre.
Carrying at time heavy administrative burdens in her role as head of the urban planning program, her achievements are all the more meritorious.
Maria Kordjamshidi
Maria's work, for a recently submitted PhD, deals with assessment of the thermal performance and efficiency of houses. It addresses the energy demands they make and how these might be reduced and better regulated.
Making important contributions to sustainable building design, her work has already won two other industry awards and has spun off into conference and research papers.
Her PhD was jointly supervised by
Professor Deo Prasad and
Dr Steve King.
Built Environment Research Excellence Awards 2006
Category of Senior Researcher
Associate Professor Bruce Judd
Category of Early Career Researcher
Dr Florence Phua
Category of Research Team
Associate Professor Tom Uher and
Michael Brand
Category of Research Student
Anuradha Chatterjee
Research Strengths
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