Dr Helen Giggins
Lecturer
School of Architecture and Built Environment (Construction Management (Building))
- Email:helen.giggins@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 6424
Career Summary
Biography
Dr Giggins is currently working as Lecturer in the Discipline of Construction Management in the School of Architecture and Built Environment. Helen received her PhD from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia in 2009. Her thesis titled ‘Security of Genetic Databases’ was nominated for the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation in 2009. Her current research interests are diverse, ranging across disaster management and recovery, use of ITC in education and architectural history. Her previous research interests include privacy preserving data publishing, privacy preserving data mining, trust management and graph theory applications.
Research Expertise
Helen has a diverse research expertise, having completed her PhD in the area of statistical database security, but now working in the field of construction management.
Administrative Expertise
Helen is currently the Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Construction Management (Building). She is also currently on Academic Senate in an elected position for the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment.
Collaborations
Helen is currently involved in several research collaborations, and grants. These include: A $10,000 internal Teaching and Learning grant titled "Development of an integrated system to provide students with 'verbal' feedback". Helen is Team Leader on this grant. A University of Newcastle Linkage Pilot Research Grant titled "Mapping research priorities for disaster preparedness and recovery: Improving built environment resilience through construction industry collaboration". Helen is involved in the Timeline Newcastle project which seeks to recreate the architectural history of Newcastle using an iPad application.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Newcastle
- Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Newcastle
- Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours), University of Newcastle
Keywords
- Architectural History
- Construction Management
- Data Mining
- Disaster Management
- Disaster Management and Recovery
- Graph Theory Applications
- Privacy Preserving Data Publishing
- Project Planning
- Work-Integrated Learning
Languages
- English (Fluent)
Fields of Research
| Code | Description | Percentage |
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| 040604 | Natural Hazards | 20 |
| 120201 | Building Construction Management and Project Planning | 60 |
| 089999 | Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified | 20 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
| Title | Organisation / Department |
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| Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Architecture and Built Environment Australia |
Academic appointment
| Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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| 1/02/2011 - 1/11/2011 | Project Officer | University of Newcastle School of Engineering and Built Environments Australia |
| 1/11/2010 - 1/01/2011 | Research Assistant | Charles Sturt University School of Computing and Mathematics |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Chapter (3 outputs)
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| 2012 | Giggins HP, Gu N, 'Web 2.0 opportunities for professional placement', Work Ready: E-Portfolios to Support Professional Placements, Office for Learning and Teaching, Sydney, NSW 123-136 (2012) [B2] | |||||||
| 2007 |
Brankovic L, Islam MZ, Giggins HP, 'Privacy-preserving data mining', Security, Privacy and Trust in Modern Data Management, Springer, Berlin 151-165 (2007) [B1]
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| 2007 |
Brankovic L, Giggins HP, 'Statistical database security', Security, Privacy and Trust in Modern Data Management, Springer, Berlin 167-181 (2007) [B1]
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Conference (20 outputs)
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| 2015 |
Morrison T, Giggins H, foulcher N, 'Preserving Lost Industrial Heritage: Newcastle Australia', Across Space and Time. Papers from the 41st Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (2015) [E1]
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| 2015 |
Salami R, Von Meding JK, Giggins H, Olotu A, 'Disasters, vulnerability and inadequate housing in Nigeria: A viable strategic framework.', Proceedings ANDROID Residential Doctoral School (2015) [E1]
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| 2014 |
Giggins H, Von Meding J, Gajendran T, MacKee J, Brewer G, 'The negative impact of media and socio-political influence on disaster reconstruction and resilience', Proceedings of the 5th International Disaster and Risk Conference: Integrative Risk Management - The Role of Science, Technology and Practice, IDRC Davos 2014 (2014) [E1] The construction sector has an important role to play in the future creation of a more resilient built environment. The restoration of and design of new community infrastructure i... [more] The construction sector has an important role to play in the future creation of a more resilient built environment. The restoration of and design of new community infrastructure in the wake of major disasters can provide opportunities to reduce future threats and hazards in the built environment. However, there are often competing interests involved and these sociopolitical factors may result in a lack of transparency and fairness around decision-making processes. It has been previously documented that reconstruction efforts can be unduly impacted by misguided political and economic pressures to get communities 'back on their feet' quickly. Large scale disasters, particularly where there has been significant loss of life, tend to trigger intense media scrutiny and public expectation for rapid response and recovery. Particularly where there has been a large public fund-raising effort, both victims and donors often feel a stronger sense of attachment to the immediate recovery efforts in effected communities. The resulting media scrutiny and public pressure, real or perceived, on politicians to make quick decisions in relation to the reconstruction of community built infrastructure can lead to knee-jerk announcements regarding reconstruction plans that do not consider the longer-term sustainability and resilience of a community. In non-urban, or regional, communities the impact of poor political decisions can become even more pronounced. This paper will present analysis from semi-structured interviews conducted with stakeholders involved in the reconstruction after the 'Black Saturday' fires that occurred in regional Victoria, Australia, in early 2009.
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| 2014 |
Brewer G, Giggins H, Von Meding J, Mackee J, Gajendran T, 'Understanding the role of human and nonhuman actants in post-disaster contexts: A tentative deployment of Actor Network Theory to evaluate its usefulness', Proceedings of the 5th International Disaster and Risk Conference: Integrative Risk Management - The Role of Science, Technology and Practice, IDRC Davos 2014 (2014) [E1] In the aftermath of disasters attention naturally focuses on the impacts humans experience during rescue, recovery and rebuilding. Resilient outcomes are desirable but by no means... [more] In the aftermath of disasters attention naturally focuses on the impacts humans experience during rescue, recovery and rebuilding. Resilient outcomes are desirable but by no means guaranteed, and the consequences are usually attributed to the actions of humans. In a novel deployment this research uses an Actor Network Theory (ANT) lens to reanalyse case study data from three disaster theatres. It reveals the impact of nonhuman actants upon human actants, and their consequences for recovery efforts and resilience outcomes. In particular it exposes the potential economic retardation that food aid can inflict on fragile societies; the value of coherent policies and processes for resilient reconstruction in highly structured societies, and; the mixed blessings arising from the presence of TV cameras in disaster theatres. It concludes that using an ANT lens sensitises researchers to the influences that nonhuman actants can exert in dynamic post-disaster contexts, but that the use of purist ANT approach to solving problems within disaster theatres is not a practical proposition.
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| 2014 |
Brewer G, Giggins H, von Meding J, Mackee J, Gajendran T, 'Mixed messages: tacit communication emanating from non-human actants in disaster contexts.', 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUILDING RESILIENCE, INCORPORATING THE 3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ANDROID DISASTER RESILIENCE NETWORK (2014) [E1]
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| 2014 |
Morrison T, Giggins H, Goddard K, 'Preserving the Cultural Heritage of iconic Newcastle hotels', Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development (2014) [E1]
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| 2013 |
Gajendran T, Mackee Jamie, Brewer Graham, Giggins Helen', Le Goff Raichel, 'Organising the management of disaster recovery and construction: A built environment perspective', International Conference on Building Resilience: Individual, institutional and societal coping strategies (2013) [E1]
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| 2013 |
Giggins H, Morrison T, Foulcher N, 'Bringing Together the Present with the Industrial past: the Newcastle Digitalised Heritage Project', Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage: Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures (2013) [E2]
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| 2013 |
Shih SY, Sher W, Giggins HP, 'Assessment of the Building Code of Australia to Inform the Development of BIM-enabled Code checking Systems', Proceedings of the 19th CIB World Building Congress, Brisbane 2013: Construction and Society (2013) [E1]
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| 2013 |
Morrison T, Giggins H, Foulcher N, 'Timeline Newcastle: Reconstructing Industrial Newcastle - Implementation and Exhibition', Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA London 2013) (2013) [E1]
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| 2013 |
Gajendran T, Mackee J, Brewer G, Giggins HP, Le Goff R, 'The impact of governance: Collision of the social and political dimensions on sustainable post disaster redevelopment', Resilience: Individual, institutional and societal coping strategies (2013) [E1]
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| 2012 |
Morrison T, Giggins HP, Foulcher NC, 'Evolving architectural history and digital intangible heritage', NODEM 2012: Archiving and Visualization of Intangible Heritage (2012) [E3]
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| 2012 |
Giggins HP, Brankovic L, 'VICUS - A noise addition technique for categorical data', Proceedings of the Tenth Australasian Data Mining Conference AusDM' 2012 (2012) [E1]
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| 2011 | Islam MZ, Giggins HP, 'Knowledge discovery through SysFor - a systematically developed forest of multiple decision trees', Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM'11) (2011) [E1] | |||||||
| 2009 |
Berretta RE, Giggins HP, 'Online support material for computer science honours program using Blackboard', Proceedings 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (2009) [E1]
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| 2008 |
Giggins HP, Brankovic L, 'Statistical disclosure control: To trust or not to trust', Proceedings: International Symposium on Computer Science and Its Applications, CSA 2008 (2008) [E1]
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| 2004 |
Alfalayleh MMD, Brankovic L, Giggins HP, Islam MZ, 'Towards the graceful tree conjecture: a survey', Proceedings from Fifteenth Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (2004) [E1]
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| 2003 |
Giggins HP, Brankovic L, 'Protecting Privacy in Genetic Databases', Proceedings for EMAC 2003 (2003) [E1]
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| 2002 |
Giggins HP, Brankovic L, 'Ethical and Privacy Issues in Genetic Databases', Third Australian Institute of Computer Ethics Conference (2002) [E1]
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Creative Work (1 outputs)
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| 2012 |
Morrison T, Foulcher NC, Giggins HP, Reconstructing Victorian Newcastle (2012) [J1]
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Grants and Funding
Summary
| Number of grants | 9 |
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| Total funding | $177,384 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20161 grants / $70,000
Disaster Resilience Education Capacity Building in South-East Asia$70,000
Funding body: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
| Funding body | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
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| Project Team | Doctor Jason Von Meding, Doctor Sittimont Kanjanabootra, Doctor Helen Giggins, Associate Professor Graham Brewer, Doctor Thayaparan Gajendran, Associate Professor Jamie MacKee, Professor Mario Delos Reyes, Dr Sharifah Syed Zakaria, Dr Indrajit Pal, Professor Hung Pham |
| Scheme | Australia-ASEAN Council (AAC) grants program |
| Role | Investigator |
| Funding Start | 2016 |
| Funding Finish | 2017 |
| GNo | G1501214 |
| Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - Commonwealth |
| Category | 2OPC |
| UON | Y |
20151 grants / $50,000
Modelling disaster resilience: enhancing student learning through trans-disciplinary simulation of wicked scenarios (RES-SIM)$50,000
Funding body: Office for Learning and Teaching
| Funding body | Office for Learning and Teaching |
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| Project Team | Doctor Jason Von Meding, Doctor Sittimont Kanjanabootra, Doctor Helen Giggins, Dr Vanessa Cooper |
| Scheme | Seed Projects |
| Role | Investigator |
| Funding Start | 2015 |
| Funding Finish | 2015 |
| GNo | G1401485 |
| Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
| Category | 1CS |
| UON | Y |
20142 grants / $39,750
Resilience Education Australia-China-Taipei (REACT) Network$38,250
Funding body: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
| Funding body | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
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| Project Team | Doctor Jason Von Meding, Doctor Thayaparan Gajendran, Associate Professor Jamie MacKee, Doctor Helen Giggins, Associate Professor Graham Brewer, Doctor Sittimont Kanjanabootra, Professor Qian Ye, Professor Zhangang Han, Associate Professor Yanli Lue, Associate Professor Wan-yu Shih, Associate Professor Jie-Ying Wu, Associate Professor Wen-Yen Lin |
| Scheme | Australia-China Council Grant |
| Role | Investigator |
| Funding Start | 2014 |
| Funding Finish | 2014 |
| GNo | G1400533 |
| Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - Commonwealth |
| Category | 2OPC |
| UON | Y |
Heritage 2013, Guimaraes, Portugal, 22-25 July 2014$1,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment
| Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment |
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| Project Team | Doctor Helen Giggins |
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2014 |
| Funding Finish | 2014 |
| GNo | G1400440 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
20131 grants / $1,200
Visiting Pasts, Developing Future International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan. 5 - 9 April 2013$1,200
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment
| Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment |
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| Project Team | Doctor Helen Giggins |
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2013 |
| Funding Finish | 2013 |
| GNo | G1300350 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
20123 grants / $15,234
Mapping research priorities for disaster preparedness and recovery: Improving built environment resilience through construction industry collaboration$9,394
Funding body: University of Newcastle
| Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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| Project Team | Associate Professor Jamie MacKee, Doctor Thayaparan Gajendran, Doctor Helen Giggins, Professor Michael Ostwald |
| Scheme | Linkage Pilot Research Grant |
| Role | Investigator |
| Funding Start | 2012 |
| Funding Finish | 2012 |
| GNo | G1101160 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
New Staff Grant 2012$5,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
| Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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| Project Team | Doctor Helen Giggins |
| Scheme | New Staff Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2012 |
| Funding Finish | 2012 |
| GNo | G1200984 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
10th Australasian Data Mining Conference, 2012, Sydney, 5 - 7 December 2012$840
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment
| Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment |
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| Project Team | Doctor Helen Giggins |
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2012 |
| Funding Finish | 2012 |
| GNo | G1201126 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
20091 grants / $1,200
The 2009 International Conference on Education, Information Technology Applications (EITA 2009), Beijing, China, 8-11 August 2009$1,200
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment
| Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment |
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| Project Team | Doctor Helen Giggins |
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2009 |
| Funding Finish | 2009 |
| GNo | G0190407 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Total current UON EFTSL
Current Supervision
| Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title / Program / Supervisor Type |
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| 2016 | PhD |
Paucity of Ethnicity and Cultural Authenticity in the Built Environment - How does it Affect Recovery in a Post Disaster Setting PhD (Building), Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor |
| 2013 | PhD |
Towards Developing Viable Strategic Framework to Combat Inadequate Housing: A Case of Ibadan Metropolis, Nigeria PhD (Building), Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor |
Past Supervision
| Year | Level of Study | Research Title / Program / Supervisor Type |
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| 2016 | PhD |
Challenges Associated with Implementing BIM-Enabled Code-Checking Systems Within the Design Process PhD (Building), Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor |
News
Australia-ASEAN Council funding for Disaster Resilience
January 8, 2016
A team of UON researchers have secured funding of $77,000 in the inaugural round of the Australia-ASEAN Council grant program for their project 'Disaster Resilience Education Capacity Building in South-East Asia'.
Dr Helen Giggins
Position
Lecturer
School of Architecture and Built Environment
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
Focus area
Construction Management (Building)
Contact Details
| helen.giggins@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Phone | (02) 4921 6424 |
| Fax | (02) 4921 6913 |
Office
| Room | AG22 |
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| Building | Architecture |
| Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |
News
Australia-ASEAN Council funding for Disaster Resilience
A team of UON researchers have secured funding of $77,000 in the inaugural...
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