The UQ Planning team has just published a Special Issue in Australian Planner, which includes five papers, each authored or co-authored by one of us, as well as Editorials by UQ|UP members Dorina Pojani and Neil Sipe. In combination, these papers provide a comprehensive picture of the knock-on effects of the pandemic in Brisbane. Link …
The development of global metrics for evaluating university research performance has been accompanied by increasing attention to key performance metrics for individual disciplines. This paper examines research performance metrics for Australian planning academics. It addresses questions related to programs, staff, publications, and citations. The main findings are the following: Wide gender gaps exist in Australian …
New article in The Conversation by UQ|UP team: Australian cities are crying out for better planning, but the research funding is missing Authors Dorina Pojani Jaime Olvera-Garcia Jason Byrne Neil Sipe Read the full article in The Conversation. Excerpt The Australian Research Council (ARC) provided only A$31.7 million for 91 urban and regional planning research …
Nadia attended the International Conference on Green, Digital and Intelligent Built Environments (GDI 2025), hosted by Auckland University of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand, from 1–3 December 2025. The conference brought together academics and industry professionals to share ideas on the future of the built environment. The sessions focused on how sustainability, digital technologies, and … Continue reading
While undertaking her GERMIN research project in Tirana, UQ|UP’s Dorina Pojani has been actively engaging with the city’s rich and vibrant cultural life. One recent highlight was her participation in the Film Club, a government-supported initiative dedicated to revisiting films produced during Albania’s communist dictatorship. The program pairs public screenings with critical discussion, archival material, … Continue reading
Transport research is often framed around modelling and technical optimisation, but recent work by former UQ|UP master’s student David Barreto and his advisor Dorina Pojani highlights why people’s lived experiences must remain central. Their article examines sexual violence on public transport in Latin American cities through a Rapid Evidence Assessment of 23 empirical studies published … Continue reading
The Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) held its annual Transport Academic Partnership (TAP) Showcase 2025 at the headquarter on Mary Street on 3rd of December. The Transport Academic Partnership 2025–2030 is a $4.3 million agreement between TMR, the Motor Accident Insurance Commission, Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland and the University of … Continue reading
This November, UQ|UP’s Dorina Pojani participated in the recording of Podcast No. 6, titled “Governance and Design,” at the Albanian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. The session formed part of the Pavilion’s public program and brought together a dynamic group of contributors working at the intersection of architecture, planning, and urban governance. The conversation was … Continue reading
UQ|UP’s Dorina Pojani was recently invited by UN-Habitat to deliver an expert talk on parking management at a regional workshop on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs). The workshop, held in Skopje, North Macedonia, provided an opportunity to engage with urban mobility specialists. Despite its compact scale, the workshop assembled an impressive and diverse group of … Continue reading
A new article in Case Studies in Transport Policy examines the surprisingly inconsistent terminology used to describe cycling infrastructure. The study—led by Scott Lieske in SENV and co-authored by former UQ|UP doctorand Weichang Kong, his advisor Dorina Pojani, and UQ colleagues Richard Buning and Simone Leao—reviews 113 policy documents and draws on three rounds of … Continue reading