Biography
Lisa Zamberlan is Pro Vice-Chancellor, International within the University Office of Global Affairs, Division of the Vice Chancellor and President.
Professor Lisa Zamberlan commenced as Pro Vice-Chancellor International at UNSW Sydney in 2023, leading transnational partnerships and collaboration opportunities across institutions, government agencies and industry partners to advance UNSW’s global education, innovation and impact agenda.
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Lisa Zamberlan is Pro Vice-Chancellor, International within the University Office of Global Affairs, Division of the Vice Chancellor and President.
Professor Lisa Zamberlan commenced as Pro Vice-Chancellor International at UNSW Sydney in 2023, leading transnational partnerships and collaboration opportunities across institutions, government agencies and industry partners to advance UNSW’s global education, innovation and impact agenda.
Lisa is an alum of UNSW Sydney and academic in the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture. Previous appointments include Discipline Director, (2018–2023); Associate Dean International and Faculty Executive member, UNSW Built Environment (now UNSW Arts Design and Architecture) (2019–2023); and Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor International (2022–2023).
A Senior Fellow of Advanced HE, Lisa’s collaborative research examines three interrelated themes: discipline identity, transformative learning in the design studio; and the future of design practice. Her publications examine the role of collective creativity in contemporary practice, a reconsideration of creativity in design education, the impact of peer learning in the design studio and education for design-led enterprise and innovation. She has been recognised in both Industry and Research practice with Awards of Excellence, as an invited External Reviewer for Higher Education Programs, as a National Board member (IDEA), as nominated assessor for the Australian Awards for University Teaching, Contributing Editor and as a member of the College of Reviewers (iJADE).
My Grants
2016 BE Research Start Grant: Homeland, returning, remembering re-imagining
2015 SOTL Research Grant: A review of the BIA peer tutor program
2014 BE Faculty Research Grant Program: Developing entrepreneurial capacity in design education: an analysis of structural and pedagogical models for renewed curricula
2014 SOTL Research Grant: Developing an improved peer mentor program at FBE
2013 BE Faculty Research Grant Program: Design for an Unimagined Future
2013 SOTL Research Grant: Assessing Creativity in the Design Studio
2013 BE Research Link Grant: Creative Districts:Surry Hills, Sydney
2011 BE Research Link Grant: Joseph Holtzman
2010 BE Research Link Grant:The Requisite of Delight
My Qualifications
MDesign Research (Hons)
My Research Activities
Lisa’s research examines three interrelated themes: discipline identity in architecture; the practice of learning and teaching in the design studio; and the future of design practice. Her research has focused on transformative learning in the design studio and the changing landscape of contemporary practice. Recent publications examine the role of collective creativity in contemporary practice, a reconsideration of creativity in design education, the impact of peer learning in the design studio and education for design-led enterprise and innovation. This research has been published in Design Issues, IDEA, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Journal of Peer Learning and International Journal of Design Education.