Dr. Neda Abbasi

Neda is a Lecture in Built Environment in Central Queensland University and has over twenty years of teaching, research, and project management experience in architecture and related built environment disciplines. Before joining CQUniversity, she was a Research Fellow and Project Manager in the School of Architecture and Built Environment of Deakin University (2011-2016) and has been working as an independent consultant on Post Occupancy Evaluation of Academic Library Spaces since 2013. Her research interest focuses on sustainable built environments, construction and design that promote social and personal well-being, human-environment relationships, building design and construction education i.e. optimizing learning and assessment of creative disciplines in online delivery modes i.e. online design studios, teamwork learning and teaching, planning and design of learning spaces, evidence-based design and optimal methodologies and data collection methods for built environment research. She is a trained architect and holds a Master of Architecture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, and completed a PhD on The Role of School Design in Adolescent Identity Formation in the School Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. In Deakin University, she has worked on the development of a Tool for Evaluation of Academic Library Spaces (TEALS) and was the project manager on an OLT funded project on Teaching and Assessing Team Learning in Architecture and related Design Disciplines (2011-2014). In 2013 and 2015, she worked as the project manager on two Post Occupancy Evaluation projects of University of Queensland and University of Canberra library spaces. She also worked as a research fellow on an OLT-funded project led by RMIT, Global Canopy, which aimed to examine learning opportunities between domestic outbound and international inbound students.