Professor Donald McNeill commenced as Dean and Head of School of the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning in January 2025.
Donald is Professor of Urbanism and an internationally recognised leader in scholarship on the design and governance of cities, with an academic career spanning over 25 years in the UK and Australia.
Appointed to the University of Sydney in early 2020, he served as Associate Dean Research at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning between 2021 and 2024. His teaching specialisms include urban design, urban theory and the history of cities. He has been a Chief Investigator on seven Australian Research Council grants, including a Future Fellowship. He is currently working on ‘The university and the city’ and ‘Indigenising the built environment’ ARC projects.
Donald has previously held academic appointments at Strathclyde, Southampton, King’s College London, and Western Sydney University.
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