School of Architecture, Design and Planning

Dr Daphne Nash

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School of Architecture, Design and Planning
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Dr Daphne Nash

Daphne Nash specialises in interdisciplinary cross-cultural research on topics relevant to Indigenous Australians. Her research interests and publications focus on people–environment relationships, qualitative research methods, ethnobotany and cultural heritage as well as social issues, including Indigenous housing and homelessness.

Daphne holds a PhD from the Australian National University (ANU) in the field of Interdisciplinary Cross-cultural Research that explores representations of Indigenous knowledge in south-eastern Australia. She also holds an MA and a BLitt (with merit) from the ANU both of which focus on environmental knowledge of Pintupi/Luritja people in Central Australia.

As a Research Fellow at the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, Daphne has been involved in research on social and environmental policy projects as well as graduate student supervision. Recent work has focussed on working with Aboriginal organisations in Queensland and the Northern Territory on strategies for enhancing governance and cultural competency. Currently Daphne is a co-investigator on the ARC Discovery Project Health Architecture: Understanding Indigenous experiences of architectural settings to improve Indigenous health outcomes: Does design matter?

Professional affiliations:

  • Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society
  • Member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
  • Member of the Society of Ethnobiology (SoE)

Qualifications:

  • PhD (ANU) Interdisciplinary Cross-cultural Research
  • Grad. Cert. Applied Science (UC) Cultural Heritage Management
  • MA (ANU) Human Sciences, School of Archaeology & Anthropology
  • B. Litt. (ANU) Pass with merit. Human Sciences
  • Grad. Dip. Ed. (Sydney Teachers’ College)
  • BA (ANU) Human Sciences and Philosophy

Publications

Book Chapters (4)
Journal Articles (12)
Conference Papers (2)
Newspaper Article (1)
Working Paper (1)
Thesis (1)
Research Reports (13)

Book Chapters

Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne, Willetts, Rob and Franks, Patricia (2016). Looking through the service lens: case studies in Indigenous homelessness in two regional Australian towns. Indigenous homelessness: perspectives from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 245-269) edited by Evelyn J. Peters and Julia Christensen. Winnipeg, Canada: University of Manitoba Press.
Memmott, Paul and Nash, Daphne (2016). Indigenous homelessness: Australian context. Indigenous homelessness: perspectives from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 213-220) edited by Evelyn J. Peters and Julia Christensen. Winnipeg, Canada: University of Manitoba Press.
Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne and Passi, Charles (2015). Cultural Relativism and Indigenous Family Violence. Preventing violence in Australia: policy, practice and solutions. (pp. 164-185) edited by Andrew Day and Ephrem Fernandez. Annandale, NSW Austraila: Federation Press.
Memmott, Paul and Nash, Daphne (2014). Indigenous homelessness. Homelessness in Australia, an introduction. (pp. 155-178) edited by Chris Chamberlain, Guy Johnson and Catherine Robinson. Sydney, NSW, Australia: NewSouth Publishing.

Journal Articles

Memmott, Paul, Lansbury, Nina, Go-Sam, Carroll, Nash, Daphne, Redmond, Andrew Martin, Barnes, Samuel, Simpson, Patrick (Pepy) and Frank, Patricia Narrurlu (2022). Aboriginal social housing in remote Australia: Crowded, unrepaired, and raising the risk of infectious diseases. Global Discourse, 12 (2), 255-284. doi: 10.1332/204378921X16315375796362
O'Rourke, Timothy, Nash, Daphne, Haynes, Michele, Burgess, Meredith and Memmott, Paul (2020). Cross-cultural design and healthcare waiting rooms for Indigenous people in regional Australia. Environment and Behaviour, 54 (1), 001391652095244-115. doi: 10.1177/0013916520952443
Nash, Daphne, O’Rourke, Timothy, Memmott, Paul and Haynes, Michele (2020). Indigenous preferences for inpatient rooms in Australian hospitals: a mixed-methods study in cross-cultural design. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 14 (1), 1937586720925552-189. doi: 10.1177/1937586720925552
O'Rourke, Timothy and Nash, Daphne (2020). Designing hospitals for First Nations people. The Health Advocate (58), 18-20.
Haynes, Michele, O'Rourke, Timothy, Nash, Daphne, Baffour, Bernard, York, Sue, Chainey, Carys, Betros, Georgia and Memmott, Paul (2019). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander preferences for healthcare settings: effective use of design images in survey research. Australian Health Review, 44 (2), 222-227. doi: 10.1071/AH18196
O'Rourke, Timothy and Nash, Daphne (2019). Aboriginal yards in remote Australia: adapting landscapes for indigenous housing. Landscape and Urban Planning, 182, 124-132. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.10.013
Nash, Daphne, Memmott, Paul, Reser, Joseph and Suliman, Samid (2018). We're the same as the Inuit!: exploring Australian Aboriginal perceptions of climate change in a multidisciplinary mixed methods study. Energy Research and Social Science, 45, 107-119. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.06.027
Nash, Daphne, Memmott, Paul and Moran, Mark (2017). House rules: a study of conditionality and indigenous social housing tenancies in urban, regional and remote Australia. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8 (30), 15-19.
Nash, Daphne (2014). 'Heritage knowledge': Indigenous people and fibre plants on the NSW South Coast. The Artefact, 35, 50-58.
Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne, Baffour, Bernard and Greenop, Kelly (2013). Crowded out: a case study of homelessness, crowding and the Tennant Creek Women's Refuge. Parity: The publication of the Council to the Homeless Persons, 26 (4), 16-17.
Memmott, Paul and Nash, Daphne (2012). Home away from harm: a transitional accommodation centre for indigenous people in Mt Isa. Parity, 25 (7), 16-17.
Nash, Daphne (2010). From shell work to shell art: Koori women creating knowledge and value on the South Coast of NSW. craft + design enquiry, 2.

Conference Papers

Nash, Daphne and Memmott, Paul (2015). Transitional housing and conditionality for Indigenous social housing tenants in Mt Isa and Tennant Creek. National Housing Conference 2015, Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Perth, Western Australia, 28-30 October 2015.
Nash, Daphne (2009). Contingent, contested and changing: de-constructing Indigenous knowledge in a science curriculum resource from the south coast of New South Wales. Annual Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Knowledge Conference, Hobart, Australia, 2-4 July 2008. Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia: Australian Academic Press.

Newspaper Article

O'Rourke, Timothy and Nash, Daphne (2019, 12 06). Making space: how designing hospitals for Indigenous people might benefit everyone The Conversation

Working Paper

Memmott, Paul and Nash, Daphne (2018). Authority from the Land: negotiating the politics of tradition for service delivery in remote Aboriginal Australia. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series. Discussion Paper No 304. International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments.

Thesis

Dr Daphne Nash (2009). Transforming knowledge: Indigenous knowledge and culture workers on the south coast of New South Wales. PhD Thesis, Research School of Humanities, ANU: Canberra., Australian National University.

Research Reports

Hall, Nina L., Memmott, Paul, Barnes, Samuel, Redmond, Andrew, Go-Sam, Carroll, Nash, Daphne, Frank, Trisha Nururla and Simpson, Patrick (2020). Pilyii Papulu Purrukaj-ji (Good housing to prevent sickness): a study of housing, crowding and hygiene-related infectious diseases in the Barkly Region, Northern Territory. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Nash, Daphne and Memmott, Paul (2016). Housing conditionality, Indigenous lifeworlds and policy outcomes: Tennant Creek case study. AHURI Final Report Melbourne, VIC, Australia: AHURI (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute).
Moran, Mark, Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne, Birdsall-Jones, Chris, Fantin, Shaneen, Phillips, Rhonda and Habibis, Daphne (2016). Indigenous lifeworlds, conditionality and housing outcomes. AHRUI Final Report Melbourne, Australia: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.
Nash, Daphne (2016). Housing conditionality, Indigenous lifeworlds and policy outcomes: Logan case study. AHURI Final Report Melbourne, VIC, Australia: AHURI (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute).
Memmott, Paul and Nash, Daphne (2016). Housing conditionality, Indigenous lifeworlds and policy outcomes: Mt Isa case study. AHURI Final Report Melbourne, VIC, Australia: AHURI (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute).
Moran, Mark, Memmott, Paul, Birsdall-Jones, Christina and Nash, Daphne (2014). Case Study Rationale and Location Scoping Study. St Lucia, QLD Australia: AHURI.
Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne and Birdsall-Jones, Christina (2013). Indigenous homelessness in regional Australia: evidence note no. 54.
Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne, Baffour, Bernard and Greenop, Kelly (2013). The Women's Refuge and the crowded house: Aboriginal homelessness hidden in Tennant Creek. Evidence Note No. 39
Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne, Baffour, Bernard and Greenop, Kelly (2013). The Women's Refuge and the crowded house: Aboriginal homelessness hidden in Tennant Creek. ISSR Research Report Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.
Memmott, Paul, Nash, Daphne and Birdsall-Jones, Christina (2013). Indigenous homelessness in regional Australia. ISSR Research Report Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, Institute for Social Science Research.
Memmott, Paul, Reser, Joseph, Head, Brian, Davidson, James, Nash, Daphne, O'Rourke, Tim, Gamage, Harshi, Suliman, Samid, Lowry, Andrew and Marshall, Keith (2013). Aboriginal responses to climate change in arid zone Australia: regional understandings and capacity building for adaptation. Southport, QLD, Australia: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.
Memmott, Paul and Nash, Daphne (2013). No wrong door? Managing Indigneous Homeless clients in Mt Isa. Evidence Note no 31. Brisbane, Qld Australia: Australia, Department of Families, Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
Memmott, Paul and Nash, Daphne (2012). No wrong door? Managing Indigenous homelessness in Mt Isa. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, The Institute for Social Science Research.

Areas of research

AERC