Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Overview
Dr Maram Shaweesh’s interdisciplinary research sits across several humanities and spatial disciplines including architecture, housing adequacy, migration and multiculturalism, everyday encounters in the Australian suburb, urban design and young people's experiences in urban spaces.
Maram has undertaken a range of research projects focused on housing. For example, she undertook an investigation of everyday life in suburban housing as experienced by the Australian Lebanese community. This research deployed social qualitative research methods to identify the relationship between housing design and policy, and the social and cultural context in Australia (such as changing family ideals, household composition, children wellbeing, parenting values, and social marginalisation).
Maram was also part of the team working on the Growing Up in Logan project as part of Growing Up in Cities. In collaboration with Logan City Council (CityStudio) and Beenleigh State High School, the project is examining adolescents’’ perceptions of urban space to better understand how local environments impact their everyday life.
Maram has experience working with remote Indigenous communities. She was involved in the “Gunana Futures” research project investigating housing adequacy in Mornington Island. The project focused on the influences of cultural practices of Indigenous Australians on their housing needs, policy influences on the everyday life of Aboriginal Australians, and investigates the challenges they face in an isolated community.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor of Architecture, The University of Queensland
Publications
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Other Outputs: Making Home in the Suburb: An Architectural Analysis of Everyday Life in the Australian Lebanese House
Shaweesh, Maram (2023). Making Home in the Suburb: An Architectural Analysis of Everyday Life in the Australian Lebanese House. PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/fbcd714
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Conference Publication: The future of mainstream Australian housing: insights into multigenerational living of Australia’s Lebanese community
Shaweesh, Maram (2021). The future of mainstream Australian housing: insights into multigenerational living of Australia’s Lebanese community. The Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand: 37, What If? What Next? Speculations on History’s Futures, Perth, Western Australia, 18-25 November 2020. Perth, WA, Australia: SAHANZ.
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Journal Article: Aesthetic anxieties in the migrant house: the case of the Lebanese in Australia
Shaweesh, Maram and Greenop, Kelly (2020). Aesthetic anxieties in the migrant house: the case of the Lebanese in Australia. Fabrications, 30 (2), 217-240. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1749219
Grants
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Targeted Review of Student Equity in Higher Education Programs and System Level Policy Levers
(2023–2024) The National Priorities Pool Program
Publications
Journal Article
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Aesthetic anxieties in the migrant house: the case of the Lebanese in Australia
Shaweesh, Maram and Greenop, Kelly (2020). Aesthetic anxieties in the migrant house: the case of the Lebanese in Australia. Fabrications, 30 (2), 217-240. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1749219
Conference Publication
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Shaweesh, Maram (2021). The future of mainstream Australian housing: insights into multigenerational living of Australia’s Lebanese community. The Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand: 37, What If? What Next? Speculations on History’s Futures, Perth, Western Australia, 18-25 November 2020. Perth, WA, Australia: SAHANZ.
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Experiencing house crowding in Australian dwellings: a multicultural perspective
Shaweesh, Maram and Greenop, Kelly (2019). Experiencing house crowding in Australian dwellings: a multicultural perspective. 9th State of Australian Cities National Conference (SOAC 2019), Perth, WA, Australia, 30 November - 5 December 2019. Perth, WA Australia: Analysis and Politics Observatory. doi: 10.25916/5ec72422282e0
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Shaweesh, Maram (2019). The expression of parenting values in the domestic setting: the case of the Lebanese community in Sydney. Displacement and domesticity since 1945, Brussels, Belgium, 28– 29 March 2019. Brussels: KU Leuven Department of Architecture.
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Shaweesh, Maram (2019). The expression of parenting values in the domestic setting: the case of the Lebanese community in Sydney. Displacement and Domesticity Since 1945: Refugees, Migrants and Expats Making Homes, Brussels, Belgium, 28 - 29 March 2019. Leuven, Belgium: KU Leuven.
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Shaweesh, Maram (2017). Domestic space management as expression of culture: the Lebanese population experience in Australian dwellings. Aesthetic Anxiety or Performative Subjectivity: National Narratives Encountering migrant architecture in Australia , Geelong, VIC, Australia, 17 November 2017. Geelong, VIC, Australia: Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship of Globalisation.
Other Outputs
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Shaweesh, Maram (2023). Making Home in the Suburb: An Architectural Analysis of Everyday Life in the Australian Lebanese House. PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/fbcd714
Grants (Administered at UQ)
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Targeted Review of Student Equity in Higher Education Programs and System Level Policy Levers
(2023–2024) The National Priorities Pool Program
