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  1. Structural Capacity Constraints in Australia’s Housing Crisis: A System Dynamics Analysis of the National Housing Accord’s Unachievable Targets

    Article • Systems, January 2026, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  2. Towards a Sustainable Circular Economy (SCE) for Nepal: Current Realities and Perspectives

    Article • Challenges, September 2025, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  3. Circular Economy for Nepal’s Sustainable Development Ambitions

    Article • Challenges, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  4. The Circular Economy Transition in Australia: Nuanced Circular Intermediary Accounts of Mainstream Green Growth Claims

    Article • Sustainability, September 2023, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  5. The Circular Economy Transition in Australia: Nuanced Circular Intermediary Accounts of Mainstream Green Growth Claims

    Article • August 2023, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  6. Community Development for Bote in Chitwan National Park, Nepal: A Political Ecology of Development Logic of Erasure

    Article • Sustainability, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  7. Human Centred Design Considerations for the Development of Sustainable Public Transportation in Malaysia

    Article • Applied Sciences, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  8. Expert and Diffuse Design of a Sustainable Circular Economy in Two German Circular Roadmap Projects

    Article • Social Sciences, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  9. Figuring the Transition from Circular Economy to Circular Society in Australia

    Article • Sustainability, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  10. My review of this important text about the mental lexicon

    Article • Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, February 2021, John Benjamins

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  11. Resilience Thinking and Strategies to Reclaim Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: Cascade Tank-Village System (CTVS) in Sri Lanka

    Article • Challenges, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  12. Resilience Thinking and Strategies to Reclaim Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: Cascade Tank-Village System (CTVS) in Sri Lanka

    Article • October 2020, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  13. What do Faculty and Students at PG Level think about strong and weak sustainability?

    Article • May 2020, Emerald

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  14. Survey Study on Attitudes to Multi-Dimensional Sustainable Development with U.K. MSc Students

    Article • Social Sciences, February 2019, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  15. Survey Study on Attitudes to Multi-Dimensional Sustainable Development Ladder with UK MSc Students

    Article • February 2019, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  16. Voluntourism does not deliver sustainable development nor even sustainable design

    Article • Social Sciences, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  17. Sustainable Community Development or Voluntourism: Illustrative Case Study of Sustainable Housing in Maharashtra

    Article • November 2018, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  18. Co-design prototypes as arguments

    Article • The International Journal of Architectonic Spatial and Environmental Design, January 2018, Common Ground Publishing

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  19. Design thinking is more about developing a mindset to creativity and innovation than a set of tools

    Article • Journal of Design Business & Society, October 2015, Intellect

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  20. Problem Finding through Design Thinking in Education

    Article • May 2015, Emerald

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  21. Applying sustainable industrial design principles to design of EV bus and shelter system

    Article • March 2015, SAE International

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  22. ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 2

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  23. Investigating Shape Comparison Tools for Benchmarking Differences in Product Appearance During Product Styling

    Article • December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  24. Strong sustainable principles for designing technology

    Article • December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  25. What do postgraduates think of research training and what are their ambitions?

    Article • The Design Journal, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  26. Review of a new textbook for PhD students in Design

    Article • Design and Culture, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  27. How does design creativity and innovation happen

    Article • International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  28. Editorial: Pedagogies, writing and identity in the arts and humanities

    Article • Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, October 2012, SAGE Publications

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  29. Do art and design need distinct writing genres?

    Article • Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, October 2012, SAGE Publications

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  30. The nature of design is extended to include designing everyday experience

    Article • Design Philosophy Papers, May 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  31. Testing the integration of smartphone-enabled ethnography with design

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  32. Teaching Design Thinking: Expanding Horizons in Design Education

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, January 2012, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  33. How do new academics experience their transition from creatives

    Article • Research in Post-Compulsory Education, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  34. Beyond designing

    Article • November 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  35. Socially responsible design

    Article • CoDesign, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  36. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, December 2010, Intellect

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  37. To what extent is everyday practice 'designed'

    Article • Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, December 2010, Intellect

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  38. An activity theory focused case study of graphic designers’ tool-mediated activities during the conceptual design phase

    Article • Design Studies, September 2010, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  39. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, July 2010, Intellect

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  40. How do teachers manage their allegiances to students, their own values and the insitution

    Article • Ethnography & Education, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  41. Legitimating industrial design as an academic discipline in the context of an Australian Cooperative Centre

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, January 2010, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  42. Design research and training: views of educators in a university of technology in Australia

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, January 2010, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  43. Product design engineering – a global education trend in multidisciplinary training for creative product design

    Article • European Journal of Engineering Education, November 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  44. Graphic designers' activities during the conceptual design phase of client-initiated projects

    Article • Art Design & Communication in Higher Education, September 2009, Intellect

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  45. What education should we be offering postgraduate design students

    Article • Design Studies, May 2009, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  46. Teaching and evaluation of critical appraisal skills to postgraduate ESL engineering students

    Article • Innovations in Education and Teaching International, May 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  47. The relevance and consequences of academic literacies for pedagogy and research in practice-based postgraduate design

    Article • Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, December 2008, Intellect

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  48. Book review: KEN HYLAND, Metadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing. London and New York: Continuum, 2005. 230 pp

    Article • Discourse & Society, November 2008, SAGE Publications

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  49. Neo-pragmatism offers an interpretation of design vocabulary

    Article • Design Issues, October 2008, The MIT Press

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  50. Architecture faculty and students discursively construct facts and emotions

    Article • Art Design & Communication in Higher Education, May 2008, Intellect

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  51. Pragmatism can e expanded to include the visual creative practices of design

    Article • Artifact, April 2008, IUScholarWorks

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  52. Curriculum documents and practice in the NZ polytechnic sector: consensus and dissensus

    Article • Research in Post-Compulsory Education, March 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  53. Visually mediating knowledge construction in project-based doctoral design research

    Article • Art Design & Communication in Higher Education, October 2007, Intellect

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  54. Book Review: Researching Society and Culture

    Article • Discourse & Society, January 2007, SAGE Publications

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  55. Credit-Based Discipline Specific English for Academic Purposes Programmes in Higher Education: Revitalizing the profession

    Article • Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, October 2005, SAGE Publications

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  56. Where is action research going especially with regard to so-called empowerment

    Article • The Australian Educational Researcher, August 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  57. How to raise the awareness of Spanish language learners to grammar issues

    Article • Hispania, December 1997, JSTOR

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  58. What theories and principles should inform design engagement with sustainable development?

    Article • De Gruyter

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  59. Integrating ‘Designerly’ Ways with Engineering Science

    Article • IGI Global

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  60. Integrating ‘Designerly’ Ways with Engineering Science

    Article • IGI Global

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles

  61. Integrating ‘Designerly’ Ways with Engineering Science

    Article • IGI Global

    Associate Professor Gavin B Melles