Elizabeth Grant
- Associate Professor, RMIT University
Adelaide
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An ICE-y Winter for UD Minnesotans
Minnesotans protest ICE's prescence in their state After the horrific shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis this past August, the state of Minnesota is once again in national news. On December 26, 2025, 23-year-old Youtuber Nick Shirley released a video in which he accused nine Somali-operated Minneapolis childcare centers of fraudulently taking federal funding without providing services.
Gypsy, Roma And Traveller History Month
MP Miles & Partners More Miles and Partners, established in 1996, is a specialist law firm based in London, close to Liverpool Street Station and the City. Founded by five young lawyers committed to delivering top-tier legal services, the firm has since built a strong reputation for being approachable, accessible, and dedicated to achieving the best outcomes for clients locally, regionally, and internationally.
Volunteering changed my life. Find a cause that moves you and sign up Original
One of the things I love most about this time of year is the opportunity to give back and reflect on the year as it wraps up. As we gather and celebrate with our families and friends, many of us will also be doing some end-of-year volunteering. Nonprofit organizations and charities all over our valley will see an influx of good wishes and donations. And then, January, February and March will see a quieting of engagement, and things will slow down. But what if they don’t?
Building Science for Architects
What They Don't Teach In School The science of buildings and how they perform is not often a focus during school, but can become a specialty in practice. Topics such as vapor movement, a robust thermal envelope and condensation prevention are ones that cause issues in many buildings. This presentation is designed to help you learn what you don’t know, to help you ask the right questions and help you hold your specifications when “value engineering” comes after a robust design.
Ingenious Ideas for Taking Care of Your Chickens
Chickens are some of the best introductory animals to homesteading available in today’s market. You can find them on hundreds of websites, get them in the mail as chicks or eggs, and make fast friends with them if you want to be pals with your poultry. Today, we’ll take a look at a few easy ideas to make poultry care easier! Feeders and Waterers For feeding and watering your birds, I strongly recommend going and grabbing two 5-gallon buckets from your local hardware store.
PVC: The Other White Sheet?
Thermoplastic roof membranes are the most common roof covering in the U.S. That category covers both PVC and TPO membranes. In this presentation, we will cover exactly what can be expected of PVC roof membranes and the differences among PVC, PVC-KEE and TPO. This will lead to an in-depth discussion of which projects benefit most from the unique properties of PVC and PVC-KEE membranes, including specific case studies.
Living on the edge
2024-02-01T00:00:00.0000000 Everything you wanted to know about ES-1 Recently, storms of increasing intensity have been occurring worldwide. In an Environment & Energy News article republished in Scientific American at the end of the 2022 hurricane season, author Chelsea Harvey noted: “even weak hurricanes are getting stronger as the climate warms.” We in the roofing community would be wise to take note and carefully consider how we can better protect roof corners and edges.
Northville track teams up for Balawajder Relays win
Nearly a decade ago, the Northville boys and girls track and field teams combined into one program. Though the teams practice together, the two genders compete separately. That is, except on Saturday when the Mustangs won the Balawajder Classic Co-ed Relays hosted at Milford. Northville topped the seven-school field with 127 points. Milford was runner-up with 97, followed by Novi (89), Clarkston (77), Williamston (54), West Bloomfield (54), and Rochester (49).
Sequence of Alzheimer disease biomarker changes in cognitively normal adults
From the Division of Public Health Sciences (J.L.), Department of Surgery, Siteman Cancer Center Biostatistics Core (J.L.), Division of Biostatistics (J.L., F.A., E.G., C.X.), Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (F.A., E.G., A.M.F., T.B., P.M., J.H., R.J.B., J.C.M., R.J.P., C.X.), Department of Neurology (E.M.M., A.M.F., J.H., R.J.B., J.C.M., R.J.P.), Department of Radiology (T.B., P.M.), Department of Pathology (J.C.M., R.J.P.), Department of Immunology (J.C.M., R.J.P.), and Department...
Revisited: Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre
Completed in 2014, the Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre sets an architectural precedent based on two-way knowledge transfer, a long-established Yolngu1 practice of combining Indigenous customs with introduced ways to negotiate a creative synthesis.
Building the Policy Wave: The Power of Data-based Storytelling
February 21, 2019 In his classic book on public policy, John Kingdon (2017) likens policy advocates to surfers waiting in the ocean for the right wave at the right time to ride their boards to shore. With hundreds of policy ideas waiting for their time to come, it’s an apt analogy. Like surfers looking for that perfect wave, advocates and policymakers await the timely confluence of public energy and politics to bring those policies to shore.
I tracked every penny I spent in a week and this is what I learnt
I like to think that I’m ‘fairly good’ with money. I’d give myself a B+. I’ve never been overdrawn, my only debt is my student one (which to be fair, is five digits and utterly unthinkable) and I have two savings accounts, including a stocks and shares ISA. But, I also have an Amazon One-Click problem and an Outnet Premier problem and I really like flat whites, and snacks, and Uber. I also never, never chop my own garlic.
Eating Scenery: The Killarney Story
description Eating Scenery is more than a documentary. It is a film for anyone whose identity is linked to a place they call home. This will be the story of the Killarney people, their passion and love for one of the true wonders of Ireland. An inspiration for musicians, artists and writers. A place that played an important role in Ireland's history. We intend to celebrate the Park but we also want to highlight the challenges National Parks face in Ireland.
Home Energy Blog :: Integrating Building Performance with Design
Now, more than ever, it is important for design professionals to be advocates of environmentally responsible design. Architects should aim to create places that occupants care about and care for, and maintain and enjoy for a long time. Unfortunately, architects may not have adequate training or experience to handle performance mandates relating to building integrity and comfort.
Housing and Indigenous people living with a disability: lived experiences of housing and community infrastructure
Citation: Grant, E., Zillante, G., Tually, S., Chong, A., Srivastava, A., Lester, L., Beilby, J. and Beer, A. (2016) Housing and Indigenous people living with a disability: lived experiences of housing and community infrastructure, AHURI Positioning Paper No. 168, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne, https://www.ahuri.edu.au/research/position-papers/168.
New work on Architecture for Aboriginal Children and Families
This comprehensive work reviews the development, outcomes and responses of users to three Children and Family Centres constructed in South Australia and others around Australia.
Historical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociological Theory
Grant, E. (2016). The architecture of detention: why design matters, in 'Dossier - Reporting from the (Australian) front: Housing in Extremis' (edited by Stead, N. & Greenop, K.), Architecture Australia, 105(5): 49-50.
Grant, E. and Anthony, T. (2015). Kununurra Courthouse, Australian Design Review, May, 2015.
Historically, courthouses have been a means of alienating Aboriginal people from their community and place. This article by Elizabeth Grant and Thalia Anthony in Australian Design Review discusses the Kununurra Courthouse. The project was designed jointly by TAG Architects and iredale pedersen hook. The design reflects the intersection of the justice system with Indigenous worldviews.
Terror arrives in Canada - but whose?
New anti-terror legislation will, according to its proponents, show terrorists that Canada will “never be intimidated.” But many Canadians themselves are more than a little intimidated by Bill C-51. On October 22, 2014 32-year-old Michael Zehaf-Bibeau killed Corporal Nathan Crillio at the Canadian National War Memorial with a .30-30 calibre Winchester riffle, a firearm typically suited to hunting deer.
Home Energy Magazine :: The Big Bounce
When the sunlight bounces off the roof, where does it go? Have you ever wondered what happens to solar radiation when it bounces off a “cool” reflective white roof? Many people in roofing design and construction have recently been asking that very question. To read complete online articles, you need to sign up for an Online Subscription. Once an order has been placed there is an automatic $10 processing fee that will be deducted with any cancellation.
Dark Tourism, Aboriginal Imprisonment and the ‘Prison Tree’ That Wasn’t - Indian Country Media Network
An ancient boab tree with a girth of 14.7 metres stands near the town of Derby in remote Western Australia. Boabs’ massive trunks and spindly branches create the rather intriguing illusion that the trees are growing upside down. They look like their roots are sticking up into the air. The Derby boab has stood stoically for around 1,500 years, a witness to aboriginal life and the much more recent colonial incursion onto country. As boab trees age, their trunks eventually become hollow.
Dark tourism, Aboriginal imprisonment and the ‘prison tree’ that wasn’t
An ancient boab tree with a girth of 14.7 metres stands near the town of Derby in remote Western Australia. Boabs’ massive trunks and spindly branches create the rather intriguing illusion that the trees are growing upside down. They look like their roots are sticking up into the air. The Derby boab has stood stoically for around 1500 years, a witness to Aboriginal life and the much more recent colonial incursion onto country. As boab trees age, their trunks eventually become hollow.
Finally Fit for Purpose
This article argues that Australian prisons have uncritically emulated American penitentiaries in their architecture and structure. We suggest that simply transporting physical design models from one geographic and politico-cultural setting to another, with little commitment to understanding the context-bound philosophies and conditions that underpin such models, has been highly problematic. The result has been an Australian penal estate that for decades was incompatible with its aims and purpose.
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