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 …
A new book chapter examines the relationship between water and land in Semarang, Indonesia. This article provides a systems-thinking approach to flood management in Semarang. It is the first output of the KONEKSI project assessing the socio-ecological impacts of flood infrastructure in Semarang. It was written by Ron Johnstone (UQ), Sonia Roitman (UQ) and Idha … Continue reading
In contemporary planning practice, much attention gravitates toward large institution-led initiatives, major events, and high-profile urban transformations. Yet UQ|UP’s Dorina Pojani also emphasises the importance of grassroots engagement — the domain where citizens’ creativity, agency, and lived experience most visibly shape urban life. This commitment was evident during her recent participation in an event hosted … Continue reading
What if working from home were treated as a commute in its own right? A new book chapter by UQ|UP members Dorina Pojani, Ying Lu, and Neil Sipe takes this question seriously and develops a method to understand its real economic impact. In this chapter, published in Advances in Transport Policy and Planning (edited by … Continue reading
Sebastien Darchen will present his latest book on music cultures https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-75499-9 on January 29th in Rotterdam at the Rotterdam Popular Music Studies (RPMS) research centre https://www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/research/rpms and in Amsterdam on February 13th at the School of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam https://www.cities.humanities.uva.nl/news/2025-2026-sound-cities/ Continue reading
On 4 December, UQ|UP team members Dorina Pojani, Ali Cheshmehzangi and Mubeen Ahmad will join urban scholars and practitioners from around the world at the Global Urban Innovation & Development Symposium (GUIDe), an event organised by Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) and Chongqing University (CQU). 🔗 Check out the program below and register to attend online: … Continue reading
In a recent conversation with journalist Loreta Koleci at Zëri in Albania, UQ|UP’s Dorina Pojani discussed the growing housing pressures reshaping Tirana. She highlighted the sharp rise in rents, the rapid expansion of short-term rentals through platforms such as Airbnb, and the city’s increasingly vertical skyline dominated by new high-rise towers. Together, these trends are … Continue reading
UQ|UP’s Sebastien Darchen as well as other researchers in the School of ADP will contribute to a new $5 million ARC-funded training centre led by Professor Steven Kenway (EAIT, UQ) focusing on water security and water resilience: https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/70285. Congratulations Sebastien and team! Continue reading