Neda Abbasi

Biography

Neda is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Technology, CQ University, Sydney Branch. She comes from an architecture background holding a Master of Architectural Engineering from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Iran, and has worked as a Research Fellow and Project Manager for five years, in the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University. Her research interest focuses on architecture, design and construction pedagogy and spaces and places of learning and teaching i.e. planning, design and post occupancy evaluation of educational environments. Following a Master thesis and project titled “The Youth House” which explored adolescents' psychological needs and preferences for different natural and built environments, she conducted a PhD research in the University of Melbourne titled “Pathways to Better Personal and Social Life through Learning Spaces” which examined contributions of school design to adolescent identity formation. She was involved in the development of a Tool for Evaluation of Academic Library Spaces (TEALS) and has been conducting evaluation of academic library spaces since 2011 i.e. evaluation of Deakin University library at Burwood Campus (2011), University of Queensland libraries at St Lucia Campus (2012-2013) and University of Canberra library (2015). She has worked as the project manager and/or researcher on a number of OLT-funded projects i.e. Teaching and Assessing Team Learning in Architecture and Design-related Contexts (2011-2014), Global Canopy (2014-2016), and Building Resilience in Construction Graduates (2015-2016).

Research Interest

Her research interest focuses on architecture, design and construction pedagogy and spaces and places of learning and teaching i.e. planning, design and post occupancy evaluation of educational environments.