OURSCHOOLS Research conducted within each of the three schools of our Faculty is often directly linked to business and industry.
School of Architecture and Built Environment The School of Architecture and Built Environment has an international reputation for pioneering problem-based learning, research-led learning and online learning in its undergraduate built environment programs. The School has more than 900 undergraduate and postgraduate students studying architecture, design, construction management, property economics and quantity surveying. Academic staff in the School have been awarded national and international prizes for research and design and they have held research fellow and visiting scholar positions at the world’s foremost institutions. Since 2003, academics in the School have been awarded more than $4 million in research income and have published more than 200 research books, chapters and papers. The School’s research strengths in ‘creative endeavour’ (research by design) are also significant and academics have curated, and have had their works featured in, state, national and international exhibitions. The School of Architecture and Built Environment is home to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Built Environment Research (CIBER), and academics in the school are members of the Priority Research Centres for Energy, and Gender, Health and Ageing. For a school of its size and type its research performance is excellent. The School’s primary research strengths are architecture, construction management, construction economics, design and urban design. Secondary research strengths are social and behavioural studies, health (youth, ageing, disability), infrastructure planning, urban geography, business and management.
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