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Professor of Planning and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

Susan Thompson is Professor of Planning in the School of the Built Environment, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA). She is an Associate Director of the City Futures Research Centre, also in ADA at UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Susan’s academic career encompasses research and teaching in areas ranging from social and cultural diversity in urban planning, to migrant women’s meanings of home, and the use of qualitative research in built environment disciplines. For the last two decades Susan has focussed on the interdisciplinary area of healthy urban planning, advancing understandings about the supportive nature of the built environment for health and wellbeing as part of everyday living, contributing to legislative innovation and professional practice. Her longstanding contribution to urban planning was recognised in 2012 when she was elected Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and in 2015, with the awarding of the prestigious Sidney Luker Memorial Medal. Susan is one of only three women to receive the Medal since its inception in 1956.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Professor of Planning, UNSW

Honours

Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia; Sidney Luker Medalist 2015