Professor Paul Memmott AO is an anthropologist and architect.
He founded the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the
University of Queensland (School of Architecture and Institute for
Social Science Research), where he has been Director for several
decades. His research interests encompass Aboriginal sustainable housing
and settlement design, Aboriginal access to institutional architecture,
Indigenous constructs of place and cultural heritage, vernacular
architecture, social planning in Indigenous communities, cultural change
and architectural anthropology. Memmott also has extensive professional
anthropological experience in Aboriginal land rights claims and Native
Title claims.