Sara Wilkinson

Sara is an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. She worked as a Chartered Building Surveyor in the UK before starting an academic career there. She works at the intersections of sustainability, resilience, building adaptation and transformation. Her research aims to improve local, national and international outcomes of urban development in built environments in respect of the most pressing challenges of our time: climate change, energy and water use, and a growing, increasingly urbanised global population. Sara engages in trans-disciplinary research with colleagues from science, health, business and technology as well as built environment disciplines. She has published over 290 outputs including books, research reports, journal and conference papers.