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Research in the Faculty of Built Environment is geared towards designing, delivering and managing the 21st century city.  Our objective is to create a faculty in which research, learning and teaching of the highest standard can flourish contribute to a sustainable and valued global built environment.

We do this by fostering a collegial, constructive, supportive and rigorous research culture which embraces and values the diversity of research and engenders a sense of collective responsibility for the faculty's research performance.

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Find a Supervisor

Prior to completing the Expression of Interest (EOI), potential candidates will need to visit the staff web pages on the Built Environment website. Each discipline has full listings of academic staff and research areas; these may assist in indentifying an appropriate academic in the specified area of interest. Choose the discipline that best aligns with the research topic (architecture, industrial design, planning, etc...) and search through the names and hyperlinked staff web pages. 


Finding a supervisor takes a fair amount of research prior to submitting the EOI. The ideal supervisor is knowledgeable of the proposed topic area and has a track record of good research skills and experience. Students must familiarise themselves with current as well as past research interests of their selected supervisor. Complete references for staff publications are listed. Take the time to read through some of their recent works as they will most likely be relevant and useful when constructing the thesis proposal.


Once a potential candidate has identified a supervisor, the EOI will need to be completed in full and emailed to the Director of Postgraduate Research c.steinmetz@unsw.edu.au. Incomplete EOIs will not be considered.