Prof. Paul Memmott is a Professor in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Queensland, Australia, where he served as the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (now Aboriginal Environments Research Collaborative) for some decades. His research interests encompass Aboriginal sustainable housing and settlement design, Aboriginal access to institutional architecture, Indigenous constructs of place and cultural heritage, vernacular architecture, social planning in Indigenous communities, cultural change, and architectural anthropology. He received the AIA Neville Quarry Award in 2015. His work was named Best Exhibit at the Australian Architectural Exhibit at the Venice Biennale 2018. He is a fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society, a life fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects, and a life member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
Dr. Nina Lansbury is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Health at The University of Queensland, Australia. She received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor (Honours) of Science from UNSW Sydney and earned her doctorate from Macquarie University. She was previously a senior research scientist at CSIRO, manager of the Sustainable Water Program at The University of Queensland, and senior research consultant at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS. Her research interests are climate change and health, WASH, Indigenous health, sustainable development, and women’s health.
Daphne Nash is a researcher in the Aboriginal Environments Research Collaborative at the University of Queensland, specializing in interdisciplinary cross-cultural research relating to Indigenous Australians. Using qualitative research methods, Daphne's research has focused on people-environment relationships, climate change, Indigenous housing and homelessness, and wellbeing and the built environment.
Patricia Frank is a Warumungu leader who holds a number of community board positions in Tennant Creek, including on Julalikari Council which holds the mandate for housing services, and BRADAG, the alcohol and drug prevention organization. She participated as a traditional owner in the successful Native Title claim to Patta Country, in and around Tennant Creek, which includes the area where she and her siblings now wish to build their houses on Country. Patricia has worked for almost 20 years for Anyinginyi Aboriginal Health Corporation within the Piliyintinjiki or Stronger Families team, addressing the challenges of home living and homelessness for Aboriginal residents in Tennant Creek. Patricia was raised on Banka Banka Station where her family worked as pastoral labour and lived in a single-room tin house with one door and one window opening, and with no connection to running water, electricity or sewerage.
