Dr Bhishna Bajracharya is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the Mirvac School of Sustainable Development, Bond University. Prior to his position at Bond, he taught at the planning program in the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) for twelve years.  While at QUT, he provided academic leadership as course coordinator for the undergraduate planning program for four years. He has also worked as a post doctoral fellow at the Demography program, Research School of Social Sciences in Australian National University from 1994 to 1996.  While working in Nepal as an architect in the early 1980s, he was involved in the design and development of a number of educational buildings under World Bank funding.

Bhishna has carried out research on topics such as transit oriented development, master planned communities, subtropical design, Local Agenda 21 and mega cities in Asian countries.  He has written papers on planning processes and governance of master planned communities as well as on sustainability frameworks for transit oriented development.  He has been awarded certificate of merit by the PIA, Queensland Division for his research on master planned communities (2007) and transit oriented development (2005).  Bhishna, together with academics from QUT’s Creative Industry faculty, recently received an ARC Linkage grant on the use of community narratives and new media in urban planning.

Publications

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Bajracharya,_Bhishna.html