Rate My Professor Carroll Go-Sam

Carroll Go-Sam is Dyirbal gumbilbara bama of Ravenshoe, North Queensland. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) from the University of Queensland in 1997. Currently serving as a Lecturer in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Queensland, her research focuses on Indigenous architecture, particularly its intersections with public, civic, social, and institutional architecture. She is actively involved in research, consultation, and design practice emphasizing Indigeneity in architecture, civic spaces, and Indigenous-led models of housing. Go-Sam co-led the Gununa Futures research project from 2022 to 2024 and UQ's Campuses on Countries: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement and Design Framework from 2020 to 2021. She has presented at national and international forums such as the Asia Pacific Architectural Forum, Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Brisbane Writers Festival, and MPavilion Blakitecture. Previously, she was an Indigenous Design Place researcher from 2017 to 2019 and contributed to a consultancy on safe drinking water in the Torres Strait Islands.

Go-Sam received an ARC Discovery Indigenous Award for 2014-2016 for her project Defining the Impact of Regionalism on Aboriginal Housing and Settlement. Her publications include book chapters like 'Storying in architecture design studio: Mirndiyan Gununa Art Centre' (2025, with Kelly Greenop), 'Aboriginal social housing in remote Australia: crowded, unrepaired and raising the risk of infectious diseases' (2025, with Paul Memmott et al.), 'Spinifex houses of the Western Desert' (2023, with Paul Memmott), and 'Mobilising Indigenous agency through cultural sustainability in architecture: are we there yet?' (2018, with Catherine Keys). Notable journal articles encompass 'Building relationality: sustaining First Nations aspirations in design studio teaching' (2025, with Christine Marie Phillips and Jock Gilbert), 'Creating space: The rise of Indigenous recognition and representation in architecture' (2025, with Georgia Birks and Deidre Brown), and 'Aboriginal social housing in remote Australia: Crowded, unrepaired, and raising the risk of infectious diseases' (2022, with Paul Memmott et al.). She supervises higher degree research students and participates in funded initiatives, including a 2025-2026 pilot project on improving skin health in remote Indigenous communities.