Professor-Emeritus Helen Armstrong FAILA

Dr Helen Armstrong was the Inaugural Professor of Landscape Architecture at Queensland University of Technology 1997-2003 and now is Professor-Emeritus. She has a long history as a practicing landscape architect, Adjunct-Professor, former Centre for Cultural Research, and now research scholar at ICS UWS. She has been a visiting scholar at numerous overseas universities and her work is widely published. She established the Cultural Landscape Research Unit which has undertaken a diverse range of cultural landscape studies. She has undertaking a number of studies on migration and place, including preparing a Guide for Identifying Migrant Heritage Places for the Australian Heritage Commission. Her particular interest in marginal urban landscapes has resulted in new perceptions of landscape in the context of post-urbanism and the book, Marginal Landscapes. She is currently working with Tongji University, China on Cultural Contradictions in Heritage Landscape Interpretation.