Dr David Wadley

Dr David Wadley
Dr David Wadley

Position

Program Director - Geography

Contact

Room: 35-532
Phone: 336-56535
E-mail: d.wadley@uq.edu.au

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) - Sydney University
  • PhD - Australian National University
  • DipEd - Melbourne University  
  • MBA - The University of Queensland
  • MEcon - The University of Queensland

Professional Associations

  • Association of American Geographers
  • Institute of Australian Geographers
  • Regional Science Association (ANZ)
  • Geographical Society of New South Wales
  • Economic Society of Australia

Background

 

David Wadley is the Geography Program Director and the Postgraduate Regional Development Coordinator for the School. He has been working with his postgraduates or doctoral graduates on interdisciplinary projects including urban monitoring indices in Australia and Indonesia, eco-housing, property valuation around  high voltage power lines and children’s school travel. With Dr Yan Liu, he is engaged with Universitas Diponegoro in Semarang, Java on a joint project on urban sustainability (indicators) for Indonesian cities. His personal agenda is to probe common psychological and philosophical foundations of planning, quality of life and ‘sustainable’ development.  

 

Research interests

Risk assessment, global dynamics, futurology, Economic and human geography, regional and town planning, economics, regional development

Research students

Principal supervision of PhD candidates - University of Queensland

Supervision of PhD candidate - University of Sydney

  • Upadhyay, A

Selected publications

2004: ‘Good Development, Better Planning: The Nexus Revisited’, Planning Practice and Research, 19/2, pp. 173-93.

2005: ‘Export Processing Zones and Growth Triangle Development:  The Case of The BIMP-EAGA, Southeast Asia’, (with N. Landingin), Journal of International Development, 17/1, pp. 67-96.

2008: ‘The Garden of Peace’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98/3. pp. 650-85.

2010: ‘Exploring a Quality of Life, Self-determined’, Architectural Science Review, 53/1, pp. 12-20.

Funded projects

ARC Linkage 2008-11, (Quality of life model for sustainable housing in southeast Queensland)

Teaching responsibilities

  • GEOG2000/6000 Location and Landuse
  • GEOG3000 Regional Economic Development Planning
  • REDE3200/7202 Real Estate Development Planning

 

 

 

Last updated: Apr 17, 2013

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