Professor Jill Franz
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Biography
Areas of Expertise:Environmental design in the areas of health and well-being, aging, disability and learning; design theory & methodology; universal design; design psychology; design education; qualitative methodology including practice-led research, phenomenology, phenomenography, action research, and grounded theory.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Keywords
Design for health, wellbeing and social inclusion, Design for ageing, dementia, disability, Post Occupancy Evaluation, Interior Design/Interior Architecture, Interior design education - curriculum design & development, pedagogy, Learning environment design - early childhood to higher education, Design Psychology, Qualitative Research - phenomenology, phenomenography, grounded theory, IPA, Design theory & methodology
Discipline
Architecture, Design Practice and Management
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- MEdSt (University of Queensland)
- BAppSc(Blt Env) (Queensland Inst. of Technology)
- DipT(TAFE) (Brisbane College of Adv. Ed.)
Professional memberships and associations
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Jill, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Design Thinking Pedagogy: A Phenomenographic Study of Design Thinking Teaching in the Higher Education Context (2021)
- Housing for an Ageing Australia: What Next? (2019)
- Interior Design Identity as Practised (2019)
- The 'Home' / 'Homelessness' Continuum in Residential Aged Care (2019)
- Experimentations in Transformational Pedagogy and Space: The Architecture Students' Experience (2018)
- The Physical Work Environment and Employee Perceived Health and Wellbeing (2016)
- Making Sense of Disability: The role of home and its physical environment (2015)
- The Journey of Becoming Involved: The Experience of Participation in Urban Spaces by Children with Diverse Mobility (2013)
- Inclusive housing in Australia: A question of responsibility and distributive justice (2013)