Dr. Leila Irajifar
Lecturer
Details
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College: School of AUD
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Department: School of AUD
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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leila.irajifar@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-9108-1624
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Leila is an interdisciplinary academic working at the intersection of urban planning, design and disaster management.
Her research tackles the challenges of operationalising urban resilience, science and technology in DRR, post-disaster reconstruction and her recent research focuses on the applications of complex systems theory in urban resilience planning and developing models to better understand these complexities and interdependencies in the face of climate change and other social and environmental hazards.
Leila holds a bachelor in architecture and a masters in post-disaster reconstruction and she earned her PhD in urban resilience planning from Griffith University in Australia.
She had been involved in UN-Habitat's City Resilience Profiling Program in Barcelona and worked as postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Great Lakes Research at CMU before joining RMIT University.
Prior to academia, she had several years of professional experience as an architect/planner in public and private practice concerning urban planning and post-disaster reconstruction projects.
Her research tackles the challenges of operationalising urban resilience, science and technology in DRR, post-disaster reconstruction and her recent research focuses on the applications of complex systems theory in urban resilience planning and developing models to better understand these complexities and interdependencies in the face of climate change and other social and environmental hazards.
Leila holds a bachelor in architecture and a masters in post-disaster reconstruction and she earned her PhD in urban resilience planning from Griffith University in Australia.
She had been involved in UN-Habitat's City Resilience Profiling Program in Barcelona and worked as postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Great Lakes Research at CMU before joining RMIT University.
Prior to academia, she had several years of professional experience as an architect/planner in public and private practice concerning urban planning and post-disaster reconstruction projects.
Supervisor projects
- Towards Smart Resilience in Urban Planning and Design: Integrating Smart City Technologies and Urban Resilience Strategies
- 15 Jul 2022
- Resilient ‘Smart Villages’: Exploring the contributions of 'Smart' Frameworks and Strategies to Disaster Resilience and Response in Rural and Regional Australia: A Case Study of GS3
- 16 Apr 2020
- Towards Fire-adaptive Communities in Australia: A Framework to Address Rapid and Slow Onset Fire Emergencies into an Uncertain Future
- 14 Dec 2018
- Participation as Inhabitation: Designer-Citizens Negotiating Postdisaster Housing Reconstruction
- 1 Nov 2018
Teaching interests
Urban Resilience, Technology for Social Change, Resilient and Smart Cities, Knowledge-based Development, Rebuild by Design, Climate Adaptation, Community-based Interventions
Research interests
Urban and Regional Planning, Interdisciplinary Engineering
