Creating a tourist site in a water-challenging landscape, which will use local native flora (attractive for honey bees) as a tool for interactive modern design

Tourism Destination Image has a positive effect not only on consumers’ intentions to visit Australia but also on their intentions to purchase Australian honey. The Cooperative Research Centre for Honey Bee Products is focussing on tying the honey product to place and flora. CRC is the interdisciplinary centre where researchers will work closely with industry partners.

This Scholarship, supervised by a world-leading landscape architect and urban ecologist Dr Maria Ignatieva at the University of Western Australia, provides an opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary research which combines biological knowledge and landscape design skills. The final goal of the project is to create a tourist site in a water-challenging landscape, which will use local native flora (attractive for honey bees) as a tool for interactive modern design. The site is located in the unique Western Australian environment (the Perth region is one of 35 recognised international biodiversity hotspots). Research will involve study of the best precedencies, analysis of Western Australian flora suitable for honey bee as well as site analysis and conceptual proposal for landscape design of the site with identification of zones, main buildings and traffic circulation, plants and relevant details.

Study area
Landscape architecture, biology

Value
The Scholarship offers a stipend for 3 years of $30,000 per annum with a 6 month extension, as well as funding to implement the design.

Eligibility
Requirements specific to this project: applicants must have s\kills in biology and landscape architecture relevant to this project

Basis of award
Academic Achievement

Students accepted include Australian Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident, and/or International.