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PhD Student in Land UseNicholas Stevens, who has been closely involved in the Airport Metropolis project from its inception in 2006, has been awarded the PhD Scholarship in Land Use. He is a Landscape Architect and Urban Planner with a background in regional planning and urban design and has recently completed his masters degree. Nicholas is presenting a paper, "The Australian Airport Metropolis", at the Third State of Australian Cities Confernece being held in Adelaide in November 2007. Engagement Innovation GrantA/Prof Doug Baker, along with the QUT Airport Metropolis project team, has been successful in obtaining an Engagement Innovation Grant, “Guidelines to Engage Industry Partners in Academic Research”. The project was fully funded for the amount applied for, $30,000. The ARC Linkage Airport Metropolis project will provide a case study for this project. The primary purpose of the project is to provide a framework that outlines a series of methods to facilitate and consolidate the engagement process for stronger partnerships and improved research outcomes. The outcomes of this project includes the Guidelines and a Web Tool Kit which will provide the necessary assistance and direction to early career academics, new academics, researchers, and support staff for the engagement of community in collaborative research grant proposals. The Guidelines will provide a series of methods for the effective engagement of all stakeholders and will improve the outcomes and success of a range of government/industry supported research activities. Scholarship Opportunity‘The Airport Metropolis: Managing the Interfaces’ is a 4 year research program with financial and in-kind support from 13 government and industry partners and 4 universities worldwide; QUT, University of New South Wales, The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and Delft University of Technology. Airports are emerging as important sub-regional activity centres with growing complexity of land use, infrastructure, transport, environmental impacts and implications and stakeholder relations. As a result of such changes, airport impacts now pose considerable challenges for both airport operators and the surrounding urban and regional environment. This project will investigate four major interface issues: economic development, land use planning, infrastructure and governance. The project aims to develop coordinated and equitable decision-making to ensure that airport-urban development balances economic, social and environmental issues and produces a sustainable regional (and national) competitive advantage that is both secure and resilient. Applications from appropriately qualified individuals are invited to apply for a PhD Scholarship in the following areas:
Successful applicants could expect to undertake domestic and international travel as part of the research. News articles related to the Airport Metropolis research collaboration project A archives of links to news articles related to airport cities Comments from the community in regard to the project |
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