Study level

  • PhD

Faculty/School

Faculty of Engineering

School of Architecture and Built Environment

Topic status

We're looking for students to study this topic.

Research centre

Supervisors

Dr Madhav Nepal
Position
Senior Lecturer
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Engineering

Overview

With changing climate, rapid population growth/movement, aging population and economic disparity, our housing stocks are increasingly becoming more prone to natural hazards such as flooding, bushfires, extreme heat, and cyclones. We have been witnessing increased frequency of such events and their disproportional impact on housings, related infrastructure, environment, economy, and the livelihood of people.

By leveraging UN disaster risk reduction frameworks and other national and Queensland specific frameworks, this research will assess the resilience and vulnerability of public and social housing and other facilities that provide housing for vulnerable population. It will examine the existing policies in planning and design, construction and facility management practices and provide evidence-based solutions to build resilience and climate adaption strategies.

Research activities

As part of this project you will:

  • complete a literature review, analysis and synthesis
  • develop an assessment framework
  • writing a research report.

Outcomes

This project aims to:

  • leverage UN disaster risk reduction frameworks and other relevant national/international frameworks to develop an assessment framework to assess resilience and vulnerability of housing and related facilities designed to provide housing and services for vulnerable population
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  • review how other compable nations are responding to mitigate the impact of natural disasters to vulnerable people
  • examine the existing policies in planning and design, construction and facility management practices in Australia and provide evidence-based solutions to build resilience and climate adaption strategies.

Skills and experience

You should have received  the first class or upper second class honours degree or equivalent, or a masters degree with GPA  greater than  6 and with at least a 25% research component.

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Contact

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