CURRENT FOCUS

• Carbon sequestration potential of urban and rural landscapes
• User experience of technology in outdoor environments
• Visualisation of future scenarios for landscapes
• Socio-environmental challenges for communities along rivers, lakes and oceans


CURRENT SUPERVISIONS (web links available in left block)

• PhD Overcoming potential nature deficit disorder in young adults using technology in Aotearoa NZ (CSC Scholarship)

• PhD Do School Playground Designs Adequately Protect Primary School-aged Children from the Risk of Skin Cancer and Overexposure to Solar UV Radiation?


COMPLETED SUPERVISIONS

New Zealand

• PhD (2025) Exploring relations between green spaces in high density communities and along Licun River, Qingdao, China

• PhD (2025) Nurturing water citizenship to create self-sufficient communities in Agra, India

• PhD (2025) Optimising carbon-storage potential of urban wetlands in Christchurch, NZ (LU Doctoral Scholarship)

• PhD (2023) Industrial green infrastructure for coastal city flood mitigation in a context of climate change
• PhD (2023) Consent-making in Participatory Landscape Architecture in Aotearoa NZ and Denmark
• PhD (2022) Health - promoting campus landscapes for relaxation during working hours in Aotearoa NZ

Australia
• PhD (2019) Vastu shastra and the shift from systemic to extrinsic spirituality in houses of Kerala, India (APA Scholarship)
• PhD (2019) Integrating Maori Landscape Associations into Legislative Frameworks in the South Island, New Zealand
• PhD (2018) Assessment of Landscape Character in Two Heritage River Corridors in Malaysia
• PhD (2017) Contemporary Sustainable Architecture From Traditional Concepts in Fujian Province, South East China
• PhD (2015) Representation & Authenticity of Historic Landscapes in Brisbane, Australia and Yangzhou, China (CSC Scholarship)
• PhD (2015) Deltaic Urbanism For Living With Flooding in Southern Vietnam (AusAid Scholarship)
• PhD (2015) Territoriality and the Regulation of Public Space in Favela Morro da Formiga, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (APA Scholarship)
• PhD (2015) Visual Conflicts in Urban Environments: Image Processing in Queensland Court Cases (APA Scholarship)
• PhD (2015) Design Parameters for Living Walls and Sustainable Urbanism in Tel Aviv, Israel
• PhD (2015) Role of Aesthetic Style in Visual Communication of Climate Change (APA Scholarship)
• PhD (2012) A Critical Regionalist Approach to Housing Design in Vietnam: Living Spaces in Pre- & Post-Reform Houses