Teaching expertise
Associate Professor Scott Baum
B Ec, B A (Hons), PhD
Scott’s research interests include understanding the socio-economic structure of cities and regions including issues of advantage, disadvantage and social exclusion, regional economic development and urban and regional labour market analysis. He has published widely on the issues of advantage and disadvantaged communities across Australia and among other publishing projects is currently editing 2 books on knowledged based urban development. His current research projects include modelling the impacts of local urban, regional and community contexts on labour market outcomes; modelling the impact of social networks on labour market outcomes; studying the extent of local economic and social adjustment in Australia's rural heartlands; and considering the implications of climate change on health outcomes in the Gold Coast region.
Dr Caryl Bosman, Lecturer
Dip Arch, B Arch (Hons), PhD
Caryl's research interests focus on past and present urban development theories, practices and processes, particularly in relation to ideals of community, sub/urban development and climate change. Current areas of research include: placemaking, urban design and housing studies. Caryl's research bias is for post structural methodologies and qualitative methods.
Professor Lex Brown
B E (Hons) Civil, Master Urban Studies, PhD, MPIA, MEIA, MIAIA, MAAS.
Lex graduated in Civil Engineering and Regional and Town Planning and completed his Doctorate on community response to transportation noise at Queensland University. As Professor in Environmental Planning he has extensive experience in Environmental Planning Assessment and Management both in Australia and overseas. His major research interests are in community responses to environment and pollution, environmental assessment, noise, transport and development planning. Much of his work is at the interface between the environmental scientist and the design professionals both in modeling and implementation. He works extensively with international agencies in Asia, the Pacific and Africa and with both Local and State Governments in Australia.
Dr Matthew Burke, Research Fellow (Urban Research Program)
B PD (Hons), PhD, MPIA, CPP
Matthew is a transport and land use planner with a keen focus on non-motorised travel and public transport. His research interests include travel behaviour research; transport planning and policy; physical activity and health; accessibility analysis; land use planning; urban geography; religious geography in Australian cities; gated communities; Asian cities; and, environment-behaviour research methodologies. Matthew is currently commencing an investigation into child travel behaviour and outdoor play, and he is interested in new research options regarding non-motorised travel behaviDour and transport planning.
Dr Jason Byrne, Lecturer
B A (Hons) Anthropology, B A (Hons) Urban and Regional Planning, PhD Geography
Jason has nine years of experience working as a planner with the Western Australian government. His research interests focus on nature-society-health relations in the city, including urban political ecology, environmental justice, sustainable cities, racialised landscapes and (in)salubrious urban environments. Jason also has research interests in planning theory, planning practice and policy development and favours mixed methods, action-oriented research. Recent research projects include a case study on Latino access to the Santa Monica Mountains national recreation area in Los Angeles, the politics of race and urban redevelopment in East Perth (with Donna Houston), and obesity and urban trail use in Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles.
Dr Eddo Coiacetto, Senior Lecturer
B Urb and Reg Plan (Hons) PhD
Since graduating from the University of New England in 1990, Eddo Coiacetto has worked in New South Wales as a Town Planner/Environmental Planner in Local Government and as a planning consultant in private practice. He has also lectured in Geography, Urban Planning, and Planning History/Urban History at the UNE. Eddo’s current teaching commitments in the Griffith School of Environment include Planning Practice and Law, Sustainable Development, the Planning Practicum, as well as Site Planning and land Development Processes. His research interests are in sustainable land development, urbanisation and the role of the land development industry therein, land development processes, the planning-development nexus, planning education, and in cross-cultural studies of planning and urbanisation.
Professor Pat Dale
B A (Hons) Geography, M Soc Sc, LLB, PhD
Professor Dale’s research interests include mosquito management with emphasis on appropriate land use planning as well as direct methods of mosquito control. Other interests include salt marsh and mangrove ecosystems and impact assessment, remote sensing (CIR, Thermal, SAR). Of particular interest is the relationship or lack thereof between planning and insect management. The role of environmental law is also an area of interest.
Dr Jago Dodson, Research Fellow (Urban Research Program)
B A Anthropology, MRRP, PhD Urban Planning
Jago Dodson is a research fellow in the Urban Policy Program with interests in housing, transport, labour markets and urban planning. Jago's PhD examined housing assistance policy in Australia and New Zealand. His recent housing research has looked at new master-planned communities on the urban fringe, particularly in relation to labour markets and economic change. Jago is currently writing a book on social theory and housing policy. Jago has published on transport planning issues in Australia and New Zealand, and is currently working on projects examining transport disadvantage and transit-oriented development. He has also conducted research on the governance of urban areas and the relationship between metropolitan institutions and planning strategies. He is available to supervise honours projects across the whole range of his research interests.
Dr Dianne Dredge, Senior Lecturer
BRTP (Hons), MA (Recreation and Leisure Studies), PhD
Dr Dredge has a wide range of research interests that include reflective and critical analyses of planning and policy-making processes and practices. She is particularly interested in the responses of government to contemporary planning and policy challenges such as water management and climate change and how intergovernmental relations impact upon such policy responses. Issues such as the role of the media in policy issue identification and agenda setting, policy discourses and the framing of policy, and policy evaluation are also central to her research interests. Her current research include examinations of the identities, meaning and values attached to place, especially touristed landscapes, and how these place identities are recognised and valued within planning practice. Her past research activities have included an examination of tourism and leisure lifestyles, migration and patterns of urbanisation and networked policy-making (especially the way that knowledge, leadership and interest structures play out in planning and policy formulation).
Professor Brendan Gleeson, Director, Urban Research Program
BTRP, (Hons), M URB, PhD
Professor Gleeson’s research interests include urban planning and governance, urban social policy, disability studies, and environmental theory and policy. He is co-author (with Nicholas Low) of Justice, Society and Nature: an Exploration of Political Ecology (1998). This book received the prestigious Harold and Margaret Sprout award in 1999 from the International Studies Association. He has also co-edited two books with Nicholas Low on aspects of urban and environmental policy. Dr Gleeson’s urban social policy interests were reflected in his 1999 book, Geographies of Disability. In 2001, his book (with N.P.Low), Australian Urban Planning: New Challenges, New Agendas received the Royal Australian Planning Institute’s National Award for Planning Scholarship Excellence. His book (edited with N.P. Low), Making Urban Transport Sustainable was published by Macmillan in March 2003. Gleeson’s 2006 books are Creating Child Friendly Cities and Australian Heartlands: Making Space for Hope in the Suburbs, which won the inaugural John Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues.
Tony Hall, Adjunct Professor (Urban Research Program)
PhD, FRTPI
Professor Emeritus, ARU Chelmsford, UK Tony Hall has been a leading figure in planning in Britain for many years. Before retiring to Brisbane in 2004, he was Professor of Town Planning at ARU, Chelmsford, and a member of the Councils of both the RTPI and TCPA. Rather unusually, he has also been local councillor. He led the planning policy of Chelmsford Borough Council at the political level from 1997-2003 and brought about considerable change, not just to policies but also on the ground. He is an expert on urban design and has made original contributions to design control and the use of computer visualisation. He has notable publications in this field and has made numerous presentations to international conferences. Earlier in his career, he was a practising transport planner and he has maintained a strong interesting transport policy. He has taught both urban design and transport policy.
Associate Professor Darryl Low Choy
AM, MBE, RFD, MPIA, MEIANZ, MAANRM, B A, Graduate Certificate Higher Education, Graduate Dip (Urban and Regional Planning), M Blt Env (City and Regional Plan), PhD
After graduating from the University of Queensland Darryl Low Choy applied his principal interests of terrain evaluation and environmental studies as a private consultant. He worked throughout Australia and overseas for State, Local and Federal Government agencies as well as mining companies, Aid Organisations and Land development interests. He has completed a number of major secondments to Environmental Commissions of Inquiry and government sponsored regional planning initiatives. His research interests are focused on environmental planning and management with special interest at the local government level (including Local Agenda 21 planning); cooperative regional planning and management including catchment management; regional landscape and open space planning; community based planning at catchment and regional scales; ecotourism and recreation planning; growth planning in developing regions, peri urban and rural planning, strategic regional and metropolitan planning, plan and policy implementation; and the relationship between science and planning.
Dr Neil Sipe, Senior Lecturer
B A Environmental Studies, MAURP, PhD
Neil Sipe received his PhD from Florida State University in 1996. His doctoral research involved an examination of the use of mediation for the resolution of environmental enforcement disputes. Prior to coming to the School in 1998 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida State University where he taught comprehensive planning, planning theory and geographic information systems. In addition to his teaching activities, he was a planning consultant in private practice for ten years and served as an expert witness in numerous land disputes. He has also worked as a financial analyst with an investment banking firm and as an economic analyst with a university research bureau. His research interests include: the interrelationships between land use and transport, the application of geographic information systems to planning and decision-making, the economic and financial impacts of growth and development, and the viability of using mediation to resolve public policy disputes.
Ms Deanna Tomerini, Lecturer
B Sc AES (Hons), GCert HigherEd
Deanna Tomerini graduated from the School of Australian Environmental Studies in 1997. She has been involved in a variety of teaching and research tasks at Griffith University since 1995. Deanna's current teaching responsibilities include Environmental Assessment and Environmental Noise. She also has expertise in Geographic Information Systems and is interested in the application of GIS in environmental planning, particularly in relation to health issues and environmental pollution. Recent research projects have included an investigation of the impacts of local government mosquito control programs on Ross River virus disease rates in Queensland, Australia.