The UQ|UP community is warmly invited to join an engaging online workshop hosted by the International Geographical Union (IGU) Transport and Geography Commission. This event will explore the intersections of gender, mobility, and transport through three cutting-edge perspectives from Australia. UQ|UP’s Dorina Pojani has been a member of the IGU Transport & Geography Commission since … Continue reading
Sonia Roitman was invited to present at the Research Seminar on Climate Change Adaptation and floods in Semarang (Indonesia) and Kampala (Uganda). The discussion was hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, at the Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana (UKDW) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A very lively discussion, including colleagues from the Risks and Disasters Research Center at … Continue reading
UQ|UP PhD student Nadia Zaini presented her work at the 2024 SAHANZ/SAUH PhD Colloquium, held on 22 November 2024, hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning (ACAHUCH) at the University of Melbourne. Her presentation focused on the “Methodological approaches to understanding women’s housing needs in Kuching, Sarawak”, a key aspect of her doctoral … Continue reading
Our everyday urban lives often entail encountering a familiar stranger – this is someone who we recognise but have never spoken to – a phenomenon known to hold important social benefits. The emergence of large scale big data sources present new and exciting opportunities as well as computational challenges through which we can both capture … Continue reading
This research was motivated by a concern that existing societal processes may exacerbate a given socio-ecological system’s susceptibility to the adverse consequences of climate change. Yet, such societal processes are simultaneously underrepresented in adaptation research and practice. The research examined how the problem of climate change adaptation is structured within multi-level policy and planning frameworks. … Continue reading
By now, planners everywhere know – more or less – what the ingredients of a sustainable city are, in theory. The problem is that only bits of solutions are being implemented in the cities that most need them, the majority of which are located in the Global South. UQ|UP’s Dorina Pojani presented her latest book … Continue reading
This presentation examines the positive and fast change created by Kalijawi, a community-based organisation formed by women who live in informal settlements in Yogyakarta, Indonesia since its creation in 2012. These women (and their families) are ‘deprived’ (Marcuse, 2009) and marginalised citizens who live in urban areas prone to floods that lack basic services and … Continue reading