Hannah Robertson

ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Lecturer in Construction Management, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne

Dr Hannah Robertson is an ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Construction at the University of Melbourne. She combines a socially driven and contextually responsive design approach with policy experience to work with remote communities. She works on building and design projects with Indigenous communities on their remote homelands in Australia. In particular, her DECRA involves a collaborative teaching and research project with the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation, The Centre for Appropriate Technology and Arup to design and build a Cultural Knowledge Centre at Sandy Creek Bore, Cape York.

Experience

2023–present

Senior Lecturer in Construction Management, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne
2020–present

Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
2020–2023

Lecturer in Construction Management, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne
2018–2019

Innovation Fellow and Lecturer, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Monash University

Grants and Contracts

2022

Constructing Communities on Country: Building the Olkola Cultural Knowledge Centre

Role:

Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)

Funding Source:

Australian Research Council