{"id":5855,"date":"2016-11-11T01:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/phd-student-awarded-park-design\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:07:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:07:48","slug":"phd-student-awarded-park-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/phd-student-awarded-park-design\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student awarded for park design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Curtin PhD candidate\u00a0Isaac Middle on\u00a0receiving\u00a0the David Aldous Student of the Year Award at the Parks and Leisure Awards of Excellence in Adelaide in October.\u00a0Middle<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0currently undertakes his research with Curtin\u2019s Centre for Sport and Recreation Research (CSRR).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His\u00a0research, including his recently completed doctoral thesis, has focused on the planning and design of public parks and private gardens, with the aim of getting more people outdoors, active and in contact with nature. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Middle also teaches\u00a0urban and regional planning as a sessional academic at Curtin, driving the importance of green spaces into professional courses and into the awareness of future practitioners, whose decisions will have a fundamental impact on the future quality and impact of public and private green space in our society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This year\u2019s award ceremony was held at the iconic Adelaide Oval and hosted by Stephanie Brantz, one of Australia&#8217;s most popular sports presenters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Curtin PhD candidate Isaac Middle on receiving the David Aldous Student of the Year Award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":[{"title":"Urban and Regional Planning","qualification":"Master of Urban and Regional Planning","link":"http:\/\/courses.curtin.edu.au\/course_overview\/postgraduate\/Master-UrbanRegionalPlanning","description":"Urban and regional planning is about land use, but it is also about the environment, design, communication, economics, law and the needs of people and communities. 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