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Dr Elizabeth Grant
To link to this page, please use the following URL: Biography/ BackgroundElizabeth 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. Teaching InterestsCurrently teachingIntroduction to Tertiary Studies A QualificationsBArch Stud, Grad Dip Env Stud, M Env Stud, PhDResearch InterestsShe is a researcher in the field of people-environments, which combines the disciplines of environmental psychology and architecture to ascertain congruence or fit between peoples behaviours and the design of physical environments, and 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. She has recently completed doctoral research examining Aboriginal end-user preference for prison environments in South Australia to determine design mechanisms to reduce suicide and self-harming behaviours. PublicationsBOOK CHAPTERS & ARTICLESGrant 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. (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), 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. Expertise for Media Contact
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