EBS Research Group Members

Academic Staff & Research Interests
Research Students
Visiting Professors and Visiting Scholars, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Visiting Research Students & Research Interns
Recent Research Graduates and Current Positions

Academic Staff & Research Interests

Professor Gary Moore, BArch (Hons) (California , Berkeley), MA (DevelPsychol), PhD (EnvironPsychol, Clark), RAIA PIA FAPA, Emeritus Professor of Environment-Behaviour Studies, former Dean of the Faculty, and Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Science Review
Rm 511 & 551,

children, youth and environments
housing for the elderly
social housing and urban communities
environment, behaviour and social issues in the Asia-Pacific
improved theories and methods for EBS research and utilization
post-occupancy evaluation, programming and strategic planning

Research Students

Katina Dimoulias, BVA (Interior Design, Griffith University), PhD Candidate
The relationship between environmental factors and behaviour in youth centres (Supervisor: Prof G Moore; Associate Supervisors: Dr D Lu; Assoc Prof K Malone)
Rm 555,

Azman Hassan, BScArch, MArch (Univ of Texas at Arlington, USA), PhD Candidate
Quality of the physical environment of early childhood development centres (ECDCs) in Kuala Lumpur and the Klang Valley, Malaysia (Supervisor: Prof G Moore; Associate Supervisor: Assoc Prof D Evans)
Rm 555,
http://www2.uitm.edu.my/azman

Heather Jones, B Built Environ (InterDes), BA (Psychol) (Queensland, Australia), MPhil Candidate
Restorative environments of elderly residents living in assisted care and nursing homes (Supervisor: Prof G Moore; Associate Supervisor: Assoc Prof S Quine)
Rm 556,

Chumporn Moorapun, BArch (IntArch), MArch (IntArch) (King Mongkut's Inst of Tech, Thailand), PhD Candidate
Effects of the designed environment on consumer purchase behaviour as mediated by affective responses and wayfinding performance (Supervisor: Prof G Moore; Associate Supervisor: Prof C Areni)
Rm 556,

Shiuan-Ru Su, DipArch (China Univ of Tech), BArch (Feng Chia Univ), M.S. (Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, Taiwan), PhD Candidate
Perceived control in outpatient departments of Taiwanese hospitals from the patient's perspective: A naturalistic case study (Supervisor: Prof G Moore; Associate Supervisor: Assoc Prof R de Dear)
Rm 556,

Visiting Professors, Visiting Scholars, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Visiting Research Students & Research Interns

Jenny Ernawati, PhD, Visiting Scholar, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia, November 2009-current.
International and domestic tourists? and residents? impressions of heritage tourism sites in Indonesia
Rm 552,

Durdane Lafci, BA, Visiting Scholar (Visiting PhD Student), Middle Eastern Technical University, Turkey, January 2009-current.
The impact of school architecture on learning, perceptions of teachers about classroom management and the physical environment as the ‘hidden curriculum’ in education
Rm 556,

Recent Research Graduates & Current Positions

Nathalie Jean Baptiste, MSc, Bauhaus University, Germany, Visiting scholar May 2008-Nov 2010.
Interrelations among organic waste management, urban context and healthy communities, focusing on developing countries in Latin America
Research Scientist, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig.
Honorary Research Associate, University of Sydney.

Tooran Alizadeh, BArch, MArch & MUrbDes&Plan (Shahid Beheshti Univ, Iran), PhD 2010.
Urban attributes of live/work communities for teleworkers (Supervisor: Prof E Blakely; Associate Supervisors: Prof G Moore and Dr R Pizarro)
Lecturer, School of Environment at Griffith University

Dr AM Mozammel Haque Mridha, PhD 2010.
Thesis title: The relationship between residential satisfaction and apartment living in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mozammel Mridha has joined Professor Peter Phibbs on a short-term research appointment in the Urban Research Centre at the UWS.

Dr Leilei Xu, PhD 2010.
Thesis title: Children’s assessment of their neighbourhood socio-physical environment, social interactions and social capital: An interactional-constructivist approach
Research Fellow, School of Architecture and Building, Deakin University

Dr Nadia Lalak, PhD 2009.
Thesis Title: Enhancing the beneficial effects of interaction with nature through raising the levels of cognitive processing and encounter
Psychotherapist, Sydney

Dr Zena O'Connor, PhD 2008.
Thesis Title: Fascade colour and aesthetic response: Examining patterns of response within the context of urban design and planning policy in Sydney
Director, Zena Design Research, North Sydney NSW
Honorary Research Associate, University of Sydney
zena.oconnor@usyd.edu.au

Dr Olga Camacho, PhD 2008.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability in UTS.
Olga.CamachoDuarte@uts.edu.au

Dr Katherine G Bishop, PhD 2008.
Thesis Title: From their perspectives: Children and young people’s experience of a paediatric hospital environment and its relationship to their feeling of well-being
Dr Kate Bishop, Researcher and Design Consultant, Arcadia, NSW
kbishop@bigpond.com

Dr Asif-Uz-Zaman Khan, PhD 2007.
Thesis Title: Housing and children’s education
Lecturer in Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, New Zealand
asif.khan@auckland.ac.nz

Dr Rohan Lulham, PhD 2007.
Thesis Title: Applying affective control theory to physical settings: An investigation of design in juvenile detention centres
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Crime Prevention, Designing Out Crime Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney
Rohan.Lulham@uts.edu.au
rohan.lulham@gmail.com

Mr Jesse Mowbray, BArch (Hons) 2006.
Thesis Title: The housing needs of people with Down Syndrome: A study investigating the specific needs of people with Down Syndrome in the home and how these needs can be addressed architecturally
Architect, Sydney
warmboy@optusnet.com.au

Dr Jenny Ernawati, PhD 2005.
Thesis Title: Impressions and cognitive evaluations of an historic district by tourists and the local community
Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia
jny23ern@yahoo.com

Dr Gina Chin Chin Kuo, PhD 2005.
Thesis Title: The relationship between environmentally relevant values and behaviour in Taiwanese culture
Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
cckuo@fcu.edu.tw

Mr Andrew R Bishop, BArch (Hons) 2005.
Thesis Title: Outside the square: Aesthetic response to contemporary architecture, Federation Square, Melbourne – A Case study
Architect and Planner, DEGW Design and Workplace Management, Sydney
bish.andrew@gmail.com

Dr Michael L Steven, PhD 2004.
Thesis Title: Making sense of the land: A sensemaking approach to environmental knowing
Research Consultant, MWH Global, Wellington, New Zealand
mike.steven@xtra.co.nz

Ms Dominique Alla, BArch (Hons) 2003.
Thesis Title: Design better social housing: The secrets of Shanghai’s success
Architect, Sydney
dominalla@yahoo.com.au

Dr Takemi Sugiyama, PhD 2002.
Thesis Title: Preferences for sustainable design: The roles of cognitive evaluation, environmental knowledge, environmental attitudes and culture
Senior Researcher, Behavioural Epidemiology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
Level 4, 99 Commercial Rd, Melbourne, VIC 3004
T 03 8532 1853; F 03 8532 1150
takemi.sugiyama@bakeridi.edu.au

Enquiries

For information about the EBS Research Group, please contact Professor Gary Moore at .