Profile

Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes

• Chief Investigator
• Griffith University

Dr Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes, MPIA, FHEA, is an urban and environmental planner with thirty years of experience in teaching and researching in the United States, Turkey, and Australia and is an award-winning lecturer and researcher. She is currently Acting Discipline Head (Architecture, Industrial Design and Planning) and the Program Director of Urban and Environmental Planning at Griffith University.

Aysin has expertise in environmental planning, natural resource management, governance and collaborative planning, regional planning, and growth management. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation and urban/disaster resilience, water resource management, sustainability and urbanisation in subtropical areas and coastal cities. She is the co-editor of the book Off the Plan: The Urbanisation of the Gold Coast.

Aysin is a director on the Boards of the Gold Cost Waterways Authority and South Bank Corporation and previously served on the Queensland Reconstruction Board. She is the Chair of the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) Governing Council and sits on the Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS) Executive Committee. She is a member of Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), UN Habitat Planners for Climate Action (P4CA) and its Working Group 1: Knowledge and Research and co-convenes the P4CA Oceania Hub.