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Ann is joint Director of the FBE Design Research Group and contributes to the Architecture Program. Ann has held several leadership positions in the Program such as 2004 Research and Practice Stream: 2001 -2003 Design Stream with Dr Paul Alan Johnson and 2001 -2002 Communication Stream.

Ann has over 15 years of experience as a practicing Architect and as principal of her own architectural practice. Promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2004 these contributions inform Ann's approach to her teaching, research and service activities. This is reflected in her commitment to Architecture as a discipline and practice, enhanced by the interdisciplinary framework of the Faculty. It also informs a deliberative and active approach to shared, collaborative leadership and interaction in the FBE.

Within the University Ann contributes to collegiate governance and interaction as a member of working parties and committees as well as workshops and symposiums. Ann is a 2002 UNSW First Year Innovative Teaching and Learning Awardee for the FBE Science Square Installation Project. With Paul Alan Johnson she was the 2004 recipient of the inaugural FBE Deans Teaching Award. In 2005 Ann was awarded a U21 Fellowship and is the joint project leader of an interdisciplinary staff team of a 2005 UNSW Learning and Teaching Research Award investigating the final year research experience in all FBE undergraduate programs.

Teaching

Ann's teaching activities in the architecture program focus on design studio and professional practice courses. In consultation with staff and students she has initiated, sustained and energised educational innovations, resources and exhibitions (Frames Exhibition and Taking Flight). In approaching her teaching Ann is able to draw upon her practice expertise as a registered Architect complemented by her postgraduate learning in higher education, her scholarship in considered educational practice as well as her extensive links with industry practice settings.

Particular curriculum, learning and teaching innovations that Ann has implemented focus on strengthening and developing student understanding and questioning of the complexities of Architecture as a creative, reflective discipline as well as a practice of inquiry, capability and contribution in the public domain. These strategies respond to the interdisciplinary intellectual context of the FBE, the cultural context of the student community, and are directed to preparing students for their future roles as active built environment practitioners of learning and contribution. In advancing this intention Ann has explored opportunities for educational collaboration in resonating core FBE program courses, service learning and innovative winter elective courses.

Ann conducts her own teaching responsibilities with a reflective, active and evaluative stance towards enhancing student learning and understanding. She is recognised for her student centred approach to encouraging and motivating students to question, inquire and reflect within a supportive, educational environment. In her Design Studio teaching Ann's focus is directed to enhancing students' design process so students can inform and articulate their own understanding, stance and direction in design projects and its representation in drawings and models, in mediation with the development of their professional capabilities. This is complemented by Ann's commitment to empowering student leadership and governance in their education in preparation for their public, professional roles as Architects.

Research

A significant aspect of Ann's research activities is connected to learning and teaching scholarship in higher education. In these contributions Ann's aim is to benefit student learning through advancing conceptions of inquiry practices that contribute and enrich professional actions, debate and thus our culture. In her research endeavours Ann deploys a practitioner-led action-based research practice. This purposeful approach is designed to effect change through reflective, evidence-based understanding, complemented by deliberately working in collaboration with colleagues from other FBE disciplines. As such, Ann's research contributions to the research-teaching nexus in a research intensive university is informed by Boyer's model of interaction between the Scholarships of Teaching, Application and Integration.

At the core of this research focus is Ann's interest in understanding, enhancing and reflecting upon models of how students successfully learn in university. For architectural education this is directed to questioning deeply embedded traditional competency based curricula, to dissembling the lived experience of practice, so as to enhance an investigative and reflective stance towards design as a process of inquiry and practice in context as well as artifact. Competitive FBE and UNSW Research Grants, support Ann's research.


Selected Recent Publications:

Course Outline for ARCH1502 ARCHITECTURAL GRADUATION STUDIO
UNSW selected Course Outline exemplar

Approaching Scholarship: INTERPLAY BETWEEN TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Ann Quinlan article in 2005 November issue of be - magazine of the Faculty of the Built Environment

Learning and Teaching Design Excellence
Ann Quinlan Nancy Marshall Linda Corkery Lisa Zamberlan
Final Research Project Report to FBE Quality Task Force, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales. Learning and Teaching Design Excellence Report (PDF: 870Kb) FBE Quality Task Force Research Grant. (Appendices (PDF: 2Mb)

Connecting inquiry, process, and community: student design studio learning
Quinlan Ann, 2004, Connecting inquiry, process, and community: student design studio learning" in Pratt, C. (ed) UNSW Compendium of Good Practice in Learning and Teaching, UNSW Learning and Teaching Unit, Sydney. pp32-37

Characteristics of Excellence in Design Projects - UNSW Perceptions
Quinlan, Ann, Corkery, Linda, Marshall, Nancy, 2003, "Characteristics of Excellence in Design Projects - UNSW Perceptions", in Clare Newton, Sandra Kaji -O'Grady and Simon Wollan, editors, Design + Research: Project Based Research in Architecture, proceedings of the second International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, Melbourne, University of Melbourne

A Curriculum Approach to Embedding Inquiry Practices in Architecture Design Studios Ann Quinlan and Paul Alan Johnson, " A Curriculum Approach to Embedding Inquiry Practices in Architecture Design Studios" in Robert Freestone, Aldo Bagnara, Michele Scoufis, Catherine Pratt, (ed), The Learning Community: First Explorations of the Research-Teaching Nexus at UNSW. Sydney, UNSW 2003 pp.49-55.

Embedding opportunities for Student Resilience for Academic Success in Professional Disciplines Quinlan, A.,Merten, M., Embedding opportunities for Student Resilience for Academic Success in Professional Disciplines. presented at 'Supporting Educational Faculty and TA Development within Departments and Disciplines' - the Second International Conference of the International Consortium for Educational Development in Higher Education, April, 1998. Austin Texas, USA.

Women: Academia And Professional Practice, A Disappearing Act.
Quinlan A M, Women: Academia and the Profession; A Disappearing Act. Luscombe D and King S (eds) proceedings of the Quality in Architectural Education Symposium, 11 November, 1994, Tusculum, RAIA NSW Chapter, Sydney. ISBN 0-7334-0992-2

Recent Publications

Papers & Book Chapters

Quinlan, AM., Corkery, LF. & Roche, B., 2008, 'Establishing a faculty engagement unit a case study from built environment', in Research and Development in Higher Education Volume 31 Engaging Communities, eds M. Barrow and K. Sutherland, Rotorua, New Zealand, Milperra, Australia, pp. 273 - 284

Quinlan, AM., Corkery, LF. & Roche, B., 2008, 'Learning Enabling Design: Approaching Mutuality in Education', in Beyond Beige: Improving architecture for older people and people with disabilities, vol 6(1st), pp. 146 - 165.

Quinlan, AM., Corkery, LF. & Marshall, NG. 'Revealing Student Perceptions of Excellence in Student Design Projects'. In: Proceedings of the ConnectED 2007 International Conference on Design Education, University of New South Wales, 9-12July, 2007. Sydney, UNSW, 2007.

Quinlan, AM., Corkery, LF. & Marshall, NG. 'Positioning the Design Tutor's presence in the Design Studio for successful student design learning'. In: Proceedings of the ConnectED 2007 International Conference on Design Education. Sydney, UNSW, 2007.

Quinlan, AM., 2006, 'Revealing Lived Experience Per5ceptions of Excellence in Architecture Student Design Studio Projects: A UNSW Perspective', in 2006 Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, eds Andrew Burge, Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 4944 - 4958

Creative Works

Quinlan, AM., Demirbilek, OR., Yip, M. & Pin, R. 2007, 'Tactile Imagination: Design Research Processes', , eds Dr T. Loveday, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, UNSW.