Summary
Shiva Nouri is an interdisciplinary urban researcher and academic tutor with eight years’ experience spanning urban planning, GIS, and digital geographies. Holding a PhD from the University of Melbourne, her ethnographic research reveals how social media mediates migrant women’s experiences of home, place and everyday (im)mobilities, blending mobile methods, walking interviews and digital ethnography. She teaches and mentors Master of Urban Planning students on participatory planning and minor theses, guiding research design, methodology and critical engagement with social justice in urban change. Shiva has combined academic projects on pandemic impacts and global South urbanisms with hands-on GIS master planning and policy research in Iran, enabling a rare mix of community-rooted qualitative insight and technical spatial analysis. Colleagues value her ability to translate nuanced, place-based findings into pedagogy and collaborative research that bridges communities and scholarly debate.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Urbanism, Urbanism at Imam Khomeini International University
Master of urban planning, Master of urban planning at Shahid Beheshti University
The University of Melbourne
English, Persian, Arabic, Turkish