Dr Elizabeth Grant

Biography/ Background

Elizabeth Grant is the Program Coordinator of the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation Program at Wilto Yerlo, the Centre for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies.

She also sessionally lectures and is a research scholar at the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Adelaide, as well as being a research scholar at the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, the School of Geography, Planning and Architecture at the University of Queensland.

Qualifications

BArch Stud, Grad Dip Env Stud, M Env Stud, PhD

Teaching Interests

Currently teaching

Introduction to Tertiary Studies A
Introduction to Tertiary Studies B
Principles of Research A
Principles of Research B
Special Topic in Design - Aboriginal Architecture

Research Interests

Elizabeth Grant is a researcher in the field of people-environments, which overlays environmental psychology, architecture and other disciplines to understand the environment from a multi-disciplinary perspective. She is a member of the International Association for People-Environment Studies.  

Elizabeth has wide consultancy experience in the Aboriginal arena, in both urban and remote settings, ranging from consulting communities to achieve outcomes in the built environment, to advocacy roles acting for Aboriginal communities.

Elizabeth Grants research interests include Aboriginal architecture and environments, prison, court and other design for the criminal justice arena and culturally sustainable design and is interested in ascertaining congruence or 'fit' between peoples behaviours and the design of physical environments. Her doctoral research examining Aboriginal men's preference for prison environments in South Australia was the first empirical study of its type and looks at congruence as a mechanism to reduce suicide and self-harming behaviours.

In 2008 Elizabeth Grant was awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to investigate prison environments for Indigenous Prisoners in Canada, Denmark and New Zealand.

She is currently working on several research projects investigating prison environments and total institutions and other projects which increase outcomes in the built environment for Aboriginal users.

Publications

BOOK CHAPTERS & ARTICLES

Grant E. (forthcoming), Softening the Aboriginal prison experience through architecture: emerging trends in restorative or ameliorative Aboriginal prison environments. in Moore, G., R. Lamb & D. Lu (Eds) People, Environment and Society Design for the 21st Century, Springerlink.

Grant E. (2009) 'Prison Environments for Australian Aboriginal Prisoners: A South Australian Case Study' Australian Indigenous Law Review 12 (2) pp. 66 - 80.

Grant E. (2008), 'Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia' (Book Review), Architecture Australia, January/February 2008

Grant E. & P. Memmott (2007/08), 'The Case for Single Cells and alternative ways of viewing Custodial Accommodation for Australian Aboriginal Peoples', The Flinders Journal of Law Reform 10(3) pp. 631 - 646. http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/1836/4/Grant_and_Memmott%20jaa.pdf

Grant E. & P. Memmott (2007), 'The Journey so Far: Aboriginal Housing in South Australia', Place; Architecture, Design and Placemaking in South Australia 2 (7) pp. 6 - 12.

Grant E. & P. Memmott (2007), Forty Years of Aboriginal Housing: Public and Community Housing in South Australia from 1967 to 2007, In Reflections: 40 Years on from the 1967 Referendum Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement of South Australia, Adelaide pp. 79 - 98.

Grant E. (2006), 'Mobilong Independent Living Units: New Innovations in Australian Prison Architecture', Corrections Today 68 (3) pp. 58 - 61. (accessible online: http://www.aca.org/fileupload/177/prasannak/grant_Web.pdf)

Grant, E. (2006), 'The Blackster Solution; Transient Aboriginal Camps', Place; Architecture, Design and Placemaking in South Australia 2 (2) pp. 6 - 11. (accessible online: http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/39557)

Grant E. (2005), 'Duplex Jail', Place; Architecture, Design and Placemaking in South Australia 1 (4) pp. 12 - 15. (accessible online: http://www.placemagazine.com.au/files/archives_articles/Duplex_jail.pdf)

Wallis, J. and Grant, E. (2000), 'Indigenous Education for Future Design Professionals', Architectural Theory Review 2 (11) pp. 65 - 68.

CONFERENCE PAPERS
Grant, E. (2007), Towards Sustainable Design: Safe, Suitable and Appropriate Prisons for Aboriginal Peoples. Prison Planning, Design and Construction Conference, 23rd & 24th October 2007, Melbourne.

Grant, E. (2007), The Impact of Prison Environments on Prisoners. Northern Territory Prison Master Planning Workshop, June 2007, Darwin.

Grant, E. (2007), Needs and Preferences of Male Aboriginal prisoners: the South Australian Experience. Northern Territory Prison Master Planning Workshop, June 2007, Darwin.

Grant, E. (2006), Softening the Aboriginal prison experience through architecture: emerging trends in restorative or ameliorative Aboriginal prison environments. In, Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Environment, Behaviour and Society February 9 - 11, 2006, Sydney.

Grant, E. (2006), The right to safe accommodation: rights and obligations to a standard for prison accommodation. In, Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Australian & New Zealand Society of Criminologists, February 7 - 9 2006, Hobart.

Lavorie, C. & E. Grant (2005), Victoria Square Tarndanyangga - A Contested Space in Adelaide Australia. in, Proceedings 46th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, October 27 - 30 2005, Kansas City, Missouri.

Grant, E. (2003), Stemming the Flow, Designing Prisons - Correctional Facilities for the Future, Conference Proceedings. in, Proceedings of the National Indigenous Custody Conference, Adelaide 14th - 15th October 2003, Adelaide.

Grant, E. (2002), Incorporating Indigenous Australia into Design Education in, Proceedings of the Sharing the Space Conference Flinders University Australian Studies Program and Yunggorendi First Nations Centre, Adelaide.

Walker, V. & E. Grant, (2000), A Piece of the Story - The process of accessing records from Catholic Organisations caring for Children separated from Families. in, Proceedings of the Second National Stolen Generations Conference September 2000, Adelaide.

Files

• CV Elizabeth Grant - CURRICULUM_VITAE.doc [1.1MB] (application/msword)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 May 2009