Today, UQ|UP celebrates the amazing planners all the around the world and recognise their continued efforts to help plan, design and deliver better cities and regions! Continue reading
Tag Archives: Sonia Roitman
Upcoming webinar on sustainable urbanization in Indonesia
Next week, UQ and Universitas Indonesia (UI) will jointly host a new webinar as part of the UQ-UI Bilateral Research Forum. This webinar is entitled Sustainable Urbanisation and Sustainable Development Goals in Indonesian Cities. Our overall aim is to foster conversations between UQ and UI researchers working on sustainable cities in Indonesia. The webinar will start with … Continue reading
Planning Institute of Australia Queensland Student Academic Prize Ceremony 2021
Students from The University of Queensland were well represented at the annual PIA Queensland Student Academic Prize Ceremony 2021 held on Tuesday, 22 June 2021. It was a terrific event, recognising the academic achievements of students enrolled in accredited planning programs across Queensland. Great to see students, friends, family members coming together with university and … Continue reading
International Development: UQ|UP students in conversation with UQ Chancellor
To close off a great semester, yesterday students in PLAN7612 Global South Cities, coordinated by Dr Sonia Roitman, had a great conversation with UQ Chancellor, Mr Peter Varghese. This lecture has become a regular annual event in the course. Students had the opportunity to meet face to face (and via Zoom for those off shore) … Continue reading
Indonesia Council Open Conference (ICOC) – July 2021 @ UQ!
The University of Queensland is hosting this year’s Indonesia Council Open Conference (ICOC 2021) in July. This conference is organised biannually and this is the 11th edition. It is sponsored by the Indonesia Council, the Australian Government and the Australia Indonesia Institute. The conference will take place on 15-16 July 2021 at The University of … Continue reading
UQ|UP team wins Faculty of Science COVID Research Recovery Funding
Congratulations to the planning team! In awarding this fund (nearly $50,000), the Faculty noted that our application clearly showed UQ|UP’s commitment to high-quality teaching during the difficult and unexpected circumstances associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, our willingness to take on additional duties to achieve this, the impact this had on our research, and the potential … Continue reading
PhD scholarship to study climate change adaptation at UQ and Exter
A full PhD scholarship is available as part of the QUEX Institute, a research partnership between The University of Queensland, Australia, and the University of Exeter, UK. The project is on Urban planning and climate change adaptation in Pacific Country cities. The PhD student will be based at UQ, with a research stay at Exeter. … Continue reading