Quentin Stevens
Associate Professor
Architecture and Design
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
"Dr Stevens is a full-time researcher in urban design, with a particular focus on people’s perception and behaviour in urban open spaces. His work in recent years has been fully funded by major competitive grants from the Australian Research Council and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has previously worked at University College London and the University of Queensland. He holds professional degrees in architecture and urban planning and completed his PhD in urban design in 2002. Dr Stevens has undertaken research in Germany, Britain, the United States, Korea, France, Canada, Mexico and Hungary and given over forty invited lectures in twelve countries, including numerous conference keynotes. He has published four books with leading international academic publisher Routledge, as well as almost fifty other refereed papers, including eleven refereed articles in journals rated A or A* in ERA 2010. He is also a peer reviewer for twenty-five leading international journals."
Research Interest
Design and use of public space
Publications
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 Memories come to the surface: Pavement memorials in urban public spaces
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 Dialogues about national identity: Recent memorials in democratic capitals
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Creative milieux: how urban design nurtures creative clusters
