Adjunct Professor
Jill Franz
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Biography
Areas of Expertise: Environmental design in the areas of health and well-being, aging, disability and learning; design theory & methodology; universal design; design psychology; design education; qualitative methodology including practice-led research, phenomenology, phenomenography, action research, and grounded theory.Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Keywords
Design for health, wellbeing and social inclusion, Design for ageing, dementia, disability, Post Occupancy Evaluation, Interior Design/Interior Architecture, Interior design education - curriculum design & development, pedagogy, Learning environment design - early childhood to higher education, Design Psychology, Qualitative Research - phenomenology, phenomenography, grounded theory, IPA, Design theory & methodology
Research field
Architecture, Design
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- MEdSt (University of Queensland)
- BAppSc(Blt Env) (Queensland Inst. of Technology)
- DipT(TAFE) (Brisbane College of Adv. Ed.)
Professional memberships and associations
(Past) Fellow, Design Institute of Australia (FDIA); Director, Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators' Association (IDEA) of Australia & New Zealand; Registered Teacher, Queensland
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Jill, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Design Thinking Pedagogy: A Phenomenographic Study of Design Thinking Teaching in the Higher Education Context (2021)
- Housing for an Ageing Australia: What Next? (2019)
- Interior Design Identity as Practised (2019)
- The 'Home' / 'Homelessness' Continuum in Residential Aged Care (2019)
- Experimentations in Transformational Pedagogy and Space: The Architecture Students' Experience (2018)
- The Physical Work Environment and Employee Perceived Health and Wellbeing (2016)
- Making Sense of Disability: The role of home and its physical environment (2015)
- Inclusive housing in Australia: A question of responsibility and distributive justice (2013)
- The Journey of Becoming Involved: The Experience of Participation in Urban Spaces by Children with Diverse Mobility (2013)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.