Research by Higher Degree - PhD
| Student Name | Thesis Topic | Supervisor/s |
| Abdul Jalil Omar | Strategic Marketing of Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) in the Corporate Organisation | Dr Chris Heywood/ Dr Greg Missingham |
| Alan Davies | Spatial structure of employment concentrations in Melbourne | Professor
Kevin O'Connor/ Dr Paul Mees |
| Anne Bourke | The Social and Cultural Influences in the Design of the Outdoor Landscape of Health Instituions in Melbourne from 1850's to the present | Professor Catherin
Bull/ Dr Margaret Grose |
| Ann Maudsley | Walkability in Ancient and Modern Cities: A Comparison | Dr David Nichols/Prof Kevin O'Connor/Dr Frank Sear |
| Andrew Dodd | John James Clark: Public architect | Professor Miles Lewis |
| Andrew Martel | Relationship between the experience of place and the morphology of housing for international students | Assoc Professor Paolo Tombesi |
| Angela Fandino Sepulveda | The Performance of Environmentally Sustainable Design features in Commercial Buildings | Professor Jon Robinson Dr Eckhart Hertzsch/ Dr Robert Crawford |
| Angela Alessi | Occupant Comfort in Naturally Ventilated and Mixed-Mode Spaces within Air-Conditioned Offices | Dr Scott Drake |
| Anil Thakur | Migrancy and transforming planned city spaces: a case study of Chandigarh | Professor Ross King |
| Anna Sophie Sturup | Managing mentalities of mega projects | Assoc Professor
Nick Low/ Professor Bill Russell |
| Anthony Worm | Describing architecture: Language as part of intent and projection | Assoc Professor Paul Walker |
| Arash Arbab Jolfaei | Rethinking Higher Education Learning Environments | Professor Kim Dovey |
| Beatriz Maturana | Being an architect in Australia: How does architectural education shape future practitioners, their capacity for collaboration with other related professions and their understanding of the built environment | Dr Greg Missingham |
| Ben Cleveland | Smart Green Schools – Exploring the Use and perception of the Built Environment for Learning and as a 3D text book: An investigation into Educational and Environmental Sustainability opportunities through Innovative School Design | Dr Sue Wilks/Dr Dominique Hes/ Dr Clare Newton |
| Boonanan Natakun | Transformations of housing, culture and environment: In search of impact of urban poor housing upgrading movement on its community and surrounding in Thailand. | Assoc Professor Darko Radovic/ Dr David O'Brien |
| Catherine Tate | The architectural program of the Royal Melbourne Hospital 1934-1944 | Dr Angela
Hass/ Dr Jeff Trurnbull/ Dr Chris Heywood |
| Chen-Yu Chiu | Jorn Utzon and China: The role of traditional Chinese Art and Architecture in the work of Jorn Utzon | Professor Philip Goad |
| Chia-Hui Lin | Image impression and phenomenon - the correlation of picture, concept and form | Assoc Professor Jianfei Zhu/ Professor Philip Goad |
| Christina Dyson | A Comparative and Critical Analysis of Australian Landscape Design Between 1950 and 1970 | Dr Andrew Saniga |
| Christine Phillips | New Interpretations of Modern Hydro Architecture | Dr Peter Raisbeck/ Dr Hannah Lewi |
| Crystal Legacy | Planning for an alternative urban transport policy model: An exploration of the relationship between deliberative democracy and urban transport policy | Assoc Professor Nick Low |
| Daniela Casanella Frisius | Creative Play in Designed Urban Open Spaces based on Children's Preferences for Natural Environments in Santiago, Chile | Assoc Professor Ray Green |
| Dyah Idawati | A study of housing patterns of squatter settlements | Professor Ross King/ Dr Carolyn Whitzman |
| Emma Rowden | Gateways to Justice: Improving Video-Mediated Communications for Justice Participants | Dr Greg Missingham/ |
| Endang Triningsih | The Role of Outdoor Cafes & Restaurants as Places for social Interaction in Creating Livelier Urban places in Motorized Societies | Dr Sidh Sintusingha/ |
| Farid Ahmed | Fair access to environmental justice in poor nations: Case studies in Bangladesh | Assoc Professor Nick Low |
| Gavin Alford | The application of infrastructure planning and provision to changing spatial forms: An assessment of the links between urban planning, urban governance, budget cycle and capital works | Dr
Paul Mees/ Professor Kevin O'Connor |
| Georgia Myers | An investigation into the relationship between the implementation of the Melbourne 2030 urban growth boundary and property prices | Dr
Richard Reed/ Professor Jon Robinson |
| Gethin Davison | Changing Places: Urban Intensification and Conceptions of Place | Professor Kim Dovey |
| Giorgio Marfella | Antipodes: The idea of practice versus the practice of ideas | Assoc Professor Paolo Tombesi |
| Hanif Agharazy | A place-based approach to imageability in a multi-cultural community: Case Study: Melbourne | Professor Catherin Bull/ Assoc Professor Darko Radovic |
| Helen Norrie | Marking the past in the future: Architecture in Museums | Assoc Professor Paul Walker |
| Ilan Vizel | Housing for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Victoria: Diversity and Choice | Professor Ruth Fincher |
| Inger Mewburn | Construcing bodies: Language, representation and gesture in the design studio | Dr Scott Drake |
| Iris Levin | The physical form of housing in the process of settlement: Home-building practices of migrants | Professor Ruth Fincher |
| Jennifer Mitchelhill | Japanese architecture and the modern movement: significant events in the transfer of Japanese themes to the west 1920-1970 | Professor Philip Goad |
| Jia (Jane) Xu | Urban space and social life in the city of Hangzhou, the capital of Southern Song (1127-1279), China | Assoc Professor Jianfei Zhu |
| Jieqiong (Echo) Wang | Sustainable Management of Landscape Resources in Tourism | Professor Catherin Bull |
| Jim Georgiou | Legislative control and quality of housing | Dr Peter Raisbeck/ Professor Jon Robinson |
| John Ting | Policy, Practice & Built Form: The Architecture and Urbanism Of The Brooke Administration In Sarawak, 1849 - 1917 | Dr Anoma Pieris/ Professor Ross King |
| Juan Pablo Blanco | Emergent Frontiers In Urban Design: Operative Sustainability for Central Areas in Regeneration | Assoc Professor Justyna Karakiewicz |
| Jules Moloney | Field conditions, membranes and screens: Towards emergent performance in architecture | Assoc Professor Bharat Dave |
| Julie Rudner | Construction of Risk and Children's Independent Mobility | Assoc Professor Nick Low/ Dr Leigh Glover |
| Kate Alder | Role of physical changes in activity centres in facilitating mode shifts from car to public transport | Assoc
Professor Nick Low/ Dr Paul Mees |
| Kenneth Woodman | Smart Green Schools - Architecture, Sustainability and Education | Dr Dominique Hes/Dr Clare Newton & Dr Sue Wilks |
Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes |
Inheriting Sustainability: World Heritage Enlistment, Complex Adaptive Systems and the Design of Tourism Development in Small Oceanic Islands |
Associate Professor Ray Green |
| Ling-Ye She | Real time control for lighting of buildings | Dr Toong-Khuan Chan / Dr Lu Aye |
Luciana Fornari Colombo |
Theoretical Projects of Architecture by Mies van der Rohe |
Associate Professor Julie Willis |
| Maggie McCormick | The Transient City: Mapping urban consciousness through contemporary art | Dr Angela
Hass/ Assoc Professor Darko Radovic |
| Maloti Ray | Kuala Lumpur streets: Experience, occupation, control and representation (transitions at a time of significant social tension and change) | Professor Ross King |
| Marianna Nigra | From Sydney to Canberra: The impact of the Sydney Opera House on the construction of the new Parliament House | Assoc Professor Paolo Tombesi/ Dr Andrea Hutson |
| Marjan Hajjari | Improving urban life through urban public spaces, comparison between Iranian and Australian cases | Assoc Professor Justyna Karakiewicz |
| Matthew Webb | Progression or Biomimicry for Sustainable Building Design and Low Energy Facades | Assoc Professor Eckhart Hertzsch/ Associate Prof Ray Green |
| Maxwell Chiazor | Tools and methods for optimising and analysing environmentally sustainable design concepts in commercial buildings | Professor Jon Robinson |
| Meredith Dobbie | Perceptions of Wetlands | Dr Ray Green/ Dr Kathryn Williams |
| Myles Bunning | A Systemised approach to computer usage in environmentally sustainable commercial building design | Dr Eckhart Hertzsch/ Assoc Professor Ray Green |
| Michael Anderson | The Architecture of Alistair Knox | Professor Philip Goad |
| Milinda Pathiraja | The function of 'robust technology' in the construction of a 'third world' practice: Design interventions in post-Tsunami Sri Lanka | Professor Paolo Tombesi |
| Ming Wu | The production of landmarks: Shanghai from 1992 onwards | Assoc Professor Jianfei
Zhu/ Assoc Professor Darko Radovic |
| Mirjana Ristic | Towards Planning And Designing Public Spaces As Socially Qualitative Urban Places: Public Open Spaces At Melbourne Docklands | Professor Kim Dovey/ Assoc Professor Darko Radovic |
| Mohammad/Yazah Mat Raschid | Sustainable design principles in Malaysian sustainable eco-tourism development eco-lodge design | Dr Scott Drake/ Dr David O'Brien |
| Mohammadreza Bazldjou | Architectural Conservation in Iran | Professor Miles Lewis |
| Mojgan Taheri Tafti | Sustainable Reconstruction after Disasters | Professor Richard Tomlinson |
| Morteza Mirgholami | Social interaction and forms of co-presence in public spaces | Professor Catherin Bull |
| Nafiseh Hamidi Monazam | Association between naturally ventilated spaces in air-conditioned offices, improvement in employee health and productivity, reduction in energy usage and thermal boredom | Dr Scott Drake/ Dr Dominique Hes |
| Neda Abbasi | A Pathway to a better social and individual life through architecture | Dr Greg Missingham/ Dr Kenn Fisher |
| Nicole Porter | Landscape architecture, mass media communications and the nature of representation | Professor Catherin Bull |
Patrick Love |
Social Capital and Children's Independent Mobility in Catholic Schools in VictoriA |
Dr Carolyn Whitzman |
| Paula Villagra | Fire and the Perception of Ecological Processes in Botanic Gardens | Assoc Professor Ray Green |
| Peter Lawther | Post Tsunami housing reconstruction in the Maldives | Assoc Professor Paolo Tombesi |
| Philip Goldswain | Photographic Cities: Kalgoorlie Western Australia 1893 - 1917 | Dr Hannah Lewi/ Dr Andrew Saniga |
| Philippa McMahon | De-naturalizing native plants: Indigenous flora, colonization and the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne and Cranbourne | Professor
Catherin Bull/ Assoc Professor Paul Walker/ Assoc Professor Don Garden |
| Quoc Phuong Dinh | In Search Of Hanoi’s Sense Of Place: The Influences Of Local Culture On Architecture | Dr Derham Groves/ Professor Ross King |
| Raed Dawood | Public Open Space: Youth Recreation in Jedda, Saudi Arabia | Dr Margaret Grose |
| Rebecca Leshinsky | Urban tool: social impact assessment as a knowledge instrument for significant land use and development in Victoria, Australia | Dr Carolyn Whitzman |
| Richard Aitken | Delineating the Australian garden | Dr
Andrew Saniga/ Professor Philip Goad |
| Robyn Clinch | Making more informed decisions about heritage buildings; with case studies from inner Melbourne | Dr Peter Raisbeck/ Dr David Nichol |
| Rosemary Cousin | Market based water governance and sustainability | Assoc Professor
Nick Low/ Dr Robert Argent |
| Rowena Delgado | Does Professional Aid Strengthen or Erode Culture-Sensitive Design: Establishing a Framework for Collaborative Community Design | Assoc Professor Ray Green |
| Rupert Summerson | Assessment of wilderness and aesthetic values in Antarctica | Professor
Catherin Bull/ Professor Ian Bishop |
| Seng Fatt Wong | Walkable city: Planning strategies, design principles and urban design guidelines for transforming motor vehicle dependant people into walking oriented community in the city | Professor Ross King |
Sharon Shafer |
The problem of modernism: A comparative study of Australian modernist architecture that denotes the architecture of Le Corbusier and Mies van de Rohe and socialist and capitalist ideals |
Dr Peter Raisbeck & Assoc Professor Julie Willis |
| Simon Chun Kwan Chui | How can design processes and tools be made to enable sustainable community-led urban design of neighbourhoods in a way that improves the urban built environment and reduces governance gaps? | Assoc Professor Ray Green |
| Steven Whitford | Immanence, reference and composition: Deleuze, Complexity and Urbanism | Professor Kim Dovey |
| Stuart King | Colony and climate: Place and identity in Queensland civic architecture 1859-1914 | Assoc Professor Julie Willis |
| Sung Jun Kim | A Study of Integrated Environment-friendly Smart Home | Assoc Professor Bharat Dave |
| Ten Yu-Shen Chen | A Buddhist Approach Towards Reconceptualised Model of Disaster Planning and Recovering in Developing Countries | Professor Richard Tomlinson / Dr David O'Brien |
| Thieu Minh Tuan | Monumental National Buildings and Ideology in the History of Modern Architecture of Vietnam | Assoc Professor Julie Willis |
| Tim Petersen | Low Frequency Transport Networks For Dispersed Urban Settlements | Dr Leigh Glover/ Dr John Stone |
| Toby Adams | Taming an urban frontier? Metropolitan plans and urban expansion in Perth - a regulation theory perspective | Professor Kevin O'Connor |
| Tracey Avery | Comfort and identity: Furnishing Australian domestic interiors (1880- 1920) | Professor
Philip Goad/ Assoc Professor Julie Willis |
| Tracy Castelino | Participatory Action Research in Local Governance, Gender and Violence Prevention | Dr
Carolyn Whitzman/ Dr Marion Frere |
| Trinh Hong Viet | No so transparent: The use of glass in contemporary Vietnamese architecture | Dr Derham Groves |
| Valerie Francis | Women and their career progression in the Australian Construction Industry | Professor Jon Robinson/ Assoc Professor Graham Treloar |
| Victoria Gurr | Inter-war, 1919-1940, Industrial Architecture in Australia | Assoc Professor Julie Willis |
| Virginia Brook | Rhetoric, rigour and realpolitik in landscape architectural practice: Residential subdivisions and remnant systems | Professor
Ruth Fincher/ Dr Ruth Beilin |
| Wiryono Raharjo | Speculative Settlements: built forms and tenure ambiguity in the Javanese Kampung | Professor Kim Dovey |
Xin Liu |
Cultural Industrial Clusters and Urban Development |
Assoc Professor Sun Sheng Han |
| Yina Sima | Urban morphological evolution: From colonial to immigratory culture, Australia | Professor Philip Goad |
| Yun Zhang | Nature and picture - the starting point of landscaping | Professor
Catherin Bull/ Dr Andrew Saniga |