ProfessorHeather Horst

Professor of Design Anthropology

Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning

  • Professor of Design Anthropology
    Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning

Research projects & supervision summary

Chief Investigator. Building the evidence base on the impacts of mobile financial services for women and men in farming households in Laos and Cambodia. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. Investigators: Erin B. Taylor, Alexandra Peralta, Heather Horst and Katherine Gibson. $2.9m, 2022-2026.

 

Chief Investigator: ARC Discovery DP200101998. Fashioning Fiji: An Investigation of the Creative Industries in a Developing Context. $294,500.00, 2020-25.

 

Chief Investigator. ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. Lead CI and Organisation: Professor Julian Thomas, RMIT University. Cis: Julian Thomas, Jean Burgess, Timolean Sellis, Heather Horst, Deborah Lupton, Gerard Goggin, Sarah Pink, Mark Sanderson, Paul Henman, Axel Bruns, Dan Hunter, Mark Andrejevic, Nicolas Suzor, Jason Potts, Christine Parker, Christopher Leckie, Leanne Dowse, Megan Richardson. PIs: Wolfgang Schulz, Vaike Fors, Maartin de Rijke, Cornelius Pushmann, Ivana Jurko, Julia Stoyanovich, Karen Yeung, Frank Pasquale. $31.8 million.

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Augmented game design in preserving cultural heritage with a focus on Chinese community
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    From Presence to Proxy: Reconfiguring Care Relationships in Chinese Smart Ageing in Place
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    How can co-design help coastal communities to develop 'response-ability' at different scales and further a reciprocal relationship with coastal ecology?
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The impact of blockchain and fintech on transnational money flows: A case study of African immigrants in Australia