School of Architecture, Design and Planning

Dr Liz Brogden

Director of Teaching and Learning & Lecturer in Design (Built Environment)
School of Architecture, Design and Planning
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Researcher biography

Dr Liz Brogden is the Director of Teaching and Learning, and a Lecturer at the UQ School of Architecture, Design and Planning in Brisbane, Australia. Through her research work, she advocates for climate action in architecture, focusing on the central role of education in sustainability transitions through university programs and professional education.

Liz has extensive experience designing and implementing university modules focused on climate, resilience and sustainability from undergraduate through to Masters-level programs. These modules have been developed in architecture programs and through interdisciplinary subjects that span multiple design disciplines. She has received two Vice Chancellor Awards at QUT for teaching excellence and was on the winning team for the overall 2021 QS Reimagine Education Global Education Award.

A 2022 Churchill Fellow and Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Liz currently sits on the Queensland Education Committee for the State Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. Previously, she was a member of the Institute's national Climate Action and Sustainability Taskforce (CAST) and the Climate Action and Sustainability Committee for its Queensland State Chapter.

Publications

Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (4)
Conference Papers (5)
Newspaper Article (1)
Thesis (1)
Design (1)
Research Reports (7)

Book Chapters

Brogden, Liz and Volz, Kirsty (2023). Developing climatic design guidelines for Australia’s growing regional centres: proposing an interdisciplinary, place-based methodology. Place-based sustainability: research and design extending pathways for ecological stewardship. (pp. 108-129) edited by Jason Montgomery. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Brogden, Liz and Kennedy, Rosemary (2021). A humanitarian shelter terminology framework. Enhancing disaster preparedness: from humanitarian architecture to community resilience. (pp. 3-22) edited by A. Nuno Martins, Mahmood Fayazi, Faten Kikano and Liliane Hobeica. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-819078-4.00001-0

Journal Articles

Boston, Megan, Bernie, Desmond, Brogden, Liz, Forster, Alan, Galbrun, Laurent, Hepburn, Leigh-Anne, Lawanson, Taibat and Morkel, Jolanda (2024). Community resilience: a multidisciplinary exploration for inclusive strategies and scalable solutions. Resilient Cities and Structures, 3 (1), 114-130. doi: 10.1016/j.rcns.2024.03.005
Esperdy, Gabrielle, Stead, Naomi, Brogden, Liz, Cuéllar, Gabriel, Hwang, Joyce, Heymann, David, Sutton, Sharon Egretta, López, Monxo, Masoud, Fadi, Hanna E. Morris, Johan Pries, CL Bohannon, Rob Holmes and Thaïsa Way (2022). Field notes on design activism: 3. Places Journal.
Brogden, Liz, Bernie, Desmond, Boston, Megan, Forster, Alan M., Galbrun, Laurent, Hepburn, Leigh-Anne, Lawanson, Taibat and Morkel, Jolanda (2022). A learning design framework for community resilience: international and transdisciplinary perspectives on a boundary object. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 3 100200, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijedro.2022.100200
Brophy, Claire, Stewart, Cori, Caldwell, Glenda, Donovan, Jared, Fialho Teixeira, Müge Belek, Dedehayir, Ozgur and Brogden, Liz (2020). Designing an open innovation orchestrator: the case of Australia’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) hub. CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation (CIJ), 4 (1), 16-22. doi: 10.23726/cij.2020.949

Conference Papers

Brogden, Liz and Volz, Kirsty (2021). Searching for “Goldilocks” (Just Right!): Interdisciplinary approaches to defining the regional climate character of cities. Architecture Media Politics Society, New York / Online, 16-18 June 2021. City Tech - CUNY:
Caldwell, Glenda, Donovan, Jared, Teixeira, Müge Fialho Leandro Alves and Brogden, Liz (2019). From open innovation to design-led manufacturing: Cases of Australian art and architecture. Annual Design Research Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3-4 October 2019. Melbourne, Victoria: Monash University Caulfield.
Brogden, Liz (2019). Sustainability, design futuring, and the process of shelter and settlements. 8th I-Rec Conference on Reconstruction and Recovery for Displaced Populations and Refugees, Toronto, Canada, 1-2 June 2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International . doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-92498-4_1
Brogden, Liz and Kennedy, Rosemary (2018). Building Strong Foundations: a shelter terminology framework for humanitarian architecture. International Conference on Building Resilience, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-16 November 2018. Lisbon, Portugal:
Brogden, Liz (2017). Sustainable futures and the process of shelter and settlement: a design theory perspective. 2017 i-Rec Conference on Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction for Refugees and Displaced Population, Toronto, Canada, 1-2 June. Toronto, ON, Canada:

Newspaper Article

Brogden, Liz, Stead, Naomi, Oldfield, Philip, Knapp, Chris and Reinhardt, Dagmar (2022, 08 01). A watershed moment: architecture education and climate change Architecture Australia 60-61.

Thesis

Brogden, Liz (2020). From product to process and site to system: disaster resilience and humanitarian design in architecture education. PhD Thesis, School of Design , Queensland University of Technology . doi: 10.5204/thesis.eprints.202988

Design

Illuk, Alexandra, Brogden, Liz, Hughes, Markos, McCarthy, Nicholas and Kennedy, Clare Elizabeth (2018). Wildfire grounded futures.

Research Reports

Brogden, Liz, Gonsalves, Kavita, Oldfield, Philip, Kessler, Charlotte, Knapp, Chris, Stead, Naomi, Reinhardt, Dagmar, Engelhardt, Gina and Iftikhar, Naima (2023). Climate action in Australian architectural practice: 2022 industry survey results. West End, QLD Australia: Architecture Climate Futures.
Volz, Kirsty, Kennedy, Rosemary, Brogden, Liz, Bebbington, Jade, Pham, Kieu, Palmer, Jennifer, Christa Pudmenzky, Johnston, Lindy, Zemek, Tonia and Ison, Hannah (2022). Toowoomba Region Design: Warm Temperate Climate Building Design Guidelines. Toowoomba, QLD Australia: Toowoomba Regional Council.
Volz, Kirsty, Kennedy, Rosemary, Brogden, Liz and Pham, Kieu (2022). Warm Temperate Climate Study and Design Guidelines: Phase 3 Report: Architectural Responses to the Warm Temperate Climate. Toowoomba, QLD Australia: Toowoomba Regional Council.
Brogden, Liz, Iftikhar, Naima, Oldfield, Philip, Stead, Naomi, Kessler, Charlotte, Knapp, Chris and Reinhardt, Dagmar (2022). Climate literacy and action in architecture education: Australasian perspectives. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia.
Volz, Kirsty, Kennedy, Rosemary, Brogden, Liz and Pham, Kieu (2021). Warm Temperate Climate Study and Design Guidelines: Phase 2 Report: Architectural Responses to the Warm Temperate Climate. Toowoomba, QLD Australia: Toowoomba Regional Council.
Pudmensky, Christa, Kennedy, Rosemary, Brogden, Liz, Volz, Kirsty and Pham, Kieu (2021). Warm Temperate Climate Study and Guideline Project: Phase 1 Report: Defining the Warm Temperate. Toowoomba, QLD Australia: Toowoomba Regional Council.
Ross Donaldson, Liz Brogden, Jeremy McLeod and Bronwen Holland (2020). C-CAP: Coordinated Climate Action Plan: Report to National Council of The Australian Institute of Architects. Australia: Unpublished.