Teaching · Research translation · Industry advice
Academic exchange and research translation
Connecting practitioner knowledge with teaching, research partnerships and evidence that public organisations can use.
Project context
- Organisation
- RMIT University · University of Melbourne · research partners
- Context
- Teaching, assessment, advisory work and research exchange
- Practice
- Teaching · Research translation · Industry advice
Guest teaching and assessment
Alisha contributed guest teaching, critique and assessment to RMIT Interior Design, including work with James Carey in 2020. Her feedback connected material experiments, conceptual diagrams and process documentation with the relationship between people, environments and inhabitation. She has also contributed through the Interior Design Industry Advisory Committee.
Practical teaching and gender inclusion
In 2025, Alisha taught women and non-binary people practical tool and fabrication skills through University of Melbourne Architecture, Building and Planning workshops. Her professional records identify Peter McPhee grant support for this work. The teaching connected practical making with questions about access to technical environments.
Housing research exchange
At the 2025 Housing@RMIT HDR and ECR Symposium, Alisha presented “From Engagement to Development: Lessons Learned from the Homelessness Sector”. She brought sustained community development, care and participation into discussions of public-housing design and delivery.
Research partnerships and translation
Her Council work included helping develop a Deakin University partnership with colleagues on healthier food environments in community and sporting facilities, with contributions to research governance and translation. She also engaged with Victoria University research on preventing far-right extremism and developed regional mental-health advocacy papers. These contributions connect practitioner knowledge with research questions and public decisions.
Relevant consulting support
This experience informs research translation, facilitated learning, stakeholder briefings and tailored training. Soft Infrastructure can help make evidence accessible and connect it with the questions an organisation needs to answer.
Official information and sources
Public sources provide programme, policy and research background. The contribution described above is Alisha’s account of her experience; these links do not independently verify every personal contribution or imply organisational endorsement.
Contribution, evidence and limits
This account describes Alisha’s contribution in the project context identified above. Read the role credits and source links alongside the account. Prior Council employment and partner-led work inform Soft Infrastructure’s practice; they are not presented as new consulting commissions. Outputs and activities are described where documented. No additional measured outcomes or causal impact are inferred.