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Professor Hisham Elkadi
Head of School of Architecture and Building, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus, Victoria, Australia
Presentation:
Visioning a Univercity: Transformation of a Cultural Landscape in a Regional Australian City
Professor Elkadi is Chair of the Academic Board and has been a member of Academic Board since joining the University in 2009.
Since his first appointment in the University of Liverpool in 1988, Professor Elkadi has developed a good balance between research, teaching, HDR supervision, outreach activities, and Management.
With a background in architecture, postgraduate studies in urban design, research in humanities and social science, and academic career in engineering, arts, and social science faculties, Professor Elkadi has the understanding of quality provision of research in higher education and the ability to outreach for diverse disciplines.
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Professor Elkadi’s appointments have been in top rated Universities in both teaching and research. His previous appointment was to lead the School of Architecture & Design at the University of Ulster. Under his leadership, the School has achieved excellent rating, ranked 5th in UK when he left.
Professor Elkadi was also appointed an advisor to the Minister of Culture in Northern Ireland in 2008.
His academic career includes being a research coordinator in Plymouth, Director of undergraduate programme and a Director of postgraduate studies in the University of Newcastle and Head of School of Architecture & Design in Belfast.
Professor Elkadi’s research, in the field of cultural aspects of technology in the Built Environment and was part of the research group achieved top rating in the last RAE in UK.
He has established a sound research network on both national and international levels in the subject of cultural aspects of the built environment.
He currently leads the architecture theme in a EU funded Framework 7, Network of Excellence, and works on another 4 national and international grants.
Professor Elkadi is currently supervising 8 Ph.D. students at Deakin University and acted as an invited external examiner at Harvard, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Beirut, Newcastle, Alexandria, Gothenburg, Kuwait, Lund, Carlow and Kuala Lumpur.
Professor Elkadi is an Honorary Fellow at the University College London, a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
Professor Elkadi has more than 60 refereed publications and acted as a Keynote speaker, member of scientific committees, and Chairperson in International conferences. Professor Elkadi is Member of the Australian Association of Heads of Schools of Architecture (AASA), Member of the Association of the Australian Deans of the Built Environment (ADBED), Member of the Board of Examiners, ARB-Victoria.
He also acted as a member of the executive committee of The Royal Society of Ulster Architects, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Heads of Schools of Architecture (SCHOSA).
Qualifications and affiliations: BSc (Arch), PhD, ARIBA, FRIC
Research Output for Hisham Elkadi
Creating environments that inspire the people who live in them is one of the passions of Professor Hisham Elkadi.
"Contemporary society needs to engage, to interact with its immediate surroundings. This interaction is very important in building pride in owning our places, in our citizenship.
This is not only about the buildings, it is also about the spaces between, about creating neutral spaces to inspire us and draw us together as a society. It is important our surroundings create the backdrop for all elements of society to live in harmony.”
Speaking about his role in Geelong, Professor Elkadi said one of his goals was to build on Deakin’s current strengths.
“I’m impressed by the vision and determination that exists at Deakin and I’m excited by the opportunity to contribute and build on the work the School is doing.”
Sustainable development and cultural heritage are two particular areas of interest.
He had a leading role in the creation of the World Association for the Protection of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage in times of armed conflicts (WATCH), a not-for-profit organisation based in Rome, and is a member of the UNESCO committee for the development of Landscape Architecture.
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