Dorina Pojani makes Stanford’s World’s Top 2% Researchers list
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Dorina Pojani makes Stanford’s World’s Top 2% Researchers list

The latest release from the Meta-Research Innovation Centre at Stanford University brings good news for UQ|UP. Based on citations, Dorina Pojani ranks among the top 100,000 scientists and the top 150 in the Urban and Regional Planning subfield. Stanford’s citation ranking database is publicly available. It is based on a standardised system for comparing citations … Continue reading

Sonia Roitman delivering online public lecture on urban informality in Indonesia
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Sonia Roitman delivering online public lecture on urban informality in Indonesia

Join us for an online public lecture on Friday organised by Rusli Cahyadi from BRIN Indonesia (UQ Graduate). Three researchers will be presenting their work on informal settlements in Pontianak (Yustina Octifanny), Islamic values and urban planning in Banda Aceh (Sylvia Agustina), and the use of public space in kampung in Semarang (Wakhidah Kurniawati). The work is … Continue reading

SEQ home to PIA National Congress 2019
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SEQ home to PIA National Congress 2019

Planning Institue of Australia (PIA) National Congress will be held 15 – 17 May 2019 in the Gold Coast. The Call for Abstracts is currently open. There is the opportunity for accepted abstracts to submit a paper for peer review and online publication. PIA would love to receive abstracts from academic peers and hopes to … Continue reading

Lean and inequitable funding for planning research in Australia
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Lean and inequitable funding for planning research in Australia

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 … Continue reading