Please find below a list of conference and conference dinner speakers and their backgrounds.
Neil Sipe
Associate Professor / Head, Urban & Environmental Planning Discipline
Neil Sipe received his PhD from Florida State University in 1996. He has taught in the Griffith School of Environment since 1998 and has served as head of the planning program from 2002 to 2006 and 2008 to the present. Neil has an extensive teaching record in the field of transport planning and in recent research has been the first Australian scholar to propose methods for defining and mapping transport exclusion and oil vulnerability. He has a strong track record in empirical research that links issues of spatial access and socio-economic equity in urban contexts, both in the USA and in Australia. He is co-author (with J. Dodson) of Shocking the Suburbs: Oil Vulnerability in the Australian City (UNSW Press 2008).
