Biography
Anahita Sal Moslehian is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the HOME Strategic Research & Innovation Centre at the School of Architecture & Built Environment. With background qualifications in Architecture, Anahita's research interests are building design innovation, hospital design evolution, health-promoting building design, social and affordable housing, and family-friendly apartment design.
In her PhD research, Anahita employed a mixed grounded theory methodology to conceptualise the nature of innovation in hospital building design. Her in-depth historical analysis of hospital design evolution has yielded a framework that highlights the main components of the innovation ecosystem, its overall behaviour, the most influential contextual factors and their interplay, and maps generative interactions that support innovation processes over the past 100 years.
Anahita is an EDAC-certified researcher and her passion lies in exploring how the design of our everyday spaces can enhance human health and wellbeing, care, and cure. She is also keen on understanding the relationship between architectural design and its socio-political contexts, in which the built environment is designed and experienced. Although healthcare buildings remain her primary area of interest, her research also encompasses housing and workplaces to better understand the relationship between the built environment and health outcomes. She has applied the systematic thinking, developed during her PhD, to study the design of health-promoting environments, social and affordable housing, and family-friendly apartments within the Australian context. Anahita has actively contributed to four key projects at HOME, including her latest study exploring the impacts of living in compact modular units on the transitioning process of homeless men. Further, in 2022, she collaborated with Biophilia Lab, where her research centred on the application of the biophilic design framework in the design of new mental health facilities in Barwon Health.
Read more on Anahita's profileResearch interests
- Healthcare Building Design, Design Innovation, Biophilic Design, Therapeutic Environment Design
- Affordable and Accessible Housing, Health Promoting Building Design, Homelessness and Social Inclusion, Family-Friendly Apartment Design
- Systematic Thinking, Mixed Grounded Theory.
Affiliations
Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ);
European Network of Housing Researchers;
Australian Health Design Council (AHDC);
New Zealand Health Design Council (NCHDC);
The Centre for Health Design (CHD);
The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC); and
Australian Academy of Science EMCR Forum.
Research groups
HOME Research Centre: Providing evidence-based, community-tailored housing and social inclusion strategies.
Biphilia Lab: Creating a healthier and resilient world.
CHIME: Delivering an evidence-based, consumer-centred and co-designed approach to mental health service improvement.
Awards
Oct 2018 | Deakin University Postgraduate Research Scholarship (DUPRS)
Jun 2020 | SEBE Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition (1st place)
Feb 2017 | Ranked first among all masters students of Architectural Engineering Department - Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Sep 2014 | Awarded as a top-three student for straight admission to the Master program without entrance examination - by Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology
Sep 2014 | Ranked second among all bachelor students of Architectural Engineering Department - Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
2010-14 | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Tuition Fee Fellowship
Publications
Anahita Sal Moslehian, Phillip Roös, Jason Gaekwad, Lana Van Galen
(2023), Vol. 233, pp. 1-15, Building and Environment, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Anahita Sal Moslehian, Elyse Warner, Fiona Andrews
(2023), Vol. 38, pp. 1983-2003, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Berlin, Germany, C1
J Gaekwad, A Sal Moslehian, P Roös
(2023), Vol. 90, Journal of Environmental Psychology, C1
Impacts of building defects on the health and wellbeing of apartment residents: a scoping review
F Andrews, A Sal Moslehian, N Johnston, R Tucker
(2023), pp. 1-17, Building Research & Information, London, Eng., C1
The nature of innovation in hospital building design: a mixed grounded theory study
A Sal Moslehian, T Kocaturk, F Andrews, R Tucker
(2022), Vol. 23, pp. 792-814, Construction innovation, Bingley, Eng., C1
Jason Gaekwad, Anahita Sal Moslehian, Phillip Roös, Arlene Walker
(2022), Vol. 13, pp. 1-20, Frontiers in Psychology, Lausanne, Switzerland, C1
Analysis of Factors Historically Affecting Innovation in Hospital Building Design
Anahita Moslehian, R Tucker, T Kocaturk, F Andrews
(2022), Vol. 15, pp. 249-269, Health Environments Research and Design Journal, London, Eng., C1
A Sal Moslehian, R Tucker, T Kocaturk
(2022), Vol. 21, pp. 1-15, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, London, Eng., C1
A Sal Moslehian, T Kocaturk, R Tucker
(2021), Vol. 49, pp. 265-280, Building Research and Information, C1
Ghasem Motalebi, Anahita Moslehian, Elmira Hasanzadeh
(2021), Vol. 27, pp. 358-370, International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, London, Eng., C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
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