Rate My Professor Rebecca Scherini

Dr. Rebecca Scherini serves as a Lecturer in the School of Design and the Built Environment within the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. She assumed the position of Lecturer in March 2024 and concurrently acts as Course Coordinator for Student Engagement. Scherini earned her Doctor of Philosophy from Curtin University, specializing in City, Urban, Community and Regional Planning. Her PhD dissertation, titled 'Embodied Immersive Experiences: A Path to Facilitating Connection to Non-Human Nature,' examines immersive and embodied methodologies to strengthen human-nature connections. She is listed as a research supervisor on Curtin University's research portal, supporting PhD and higher degree by research students.

Scherini's research contributions center on urban planning, disaster risk reduction, and housing resilience. She collaborates on the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) project 'Improving coordination of data and actors for disaster-responsive housing and safer communities,' led by Dr. Francesca Perugia. This interdisciplinary initiative involves Dr. Courtney Babb and Professor Steven Rowley from Curtin's School of Design and the Built Environment and Faculty of Business and Law, alongside researchers from RMIT University and UNSW Sydney. Approved by Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee in September 2023, the project investigates data management and stakeholder coordination to lessen natural disaster impacts on housing. A featured scholarly output is the 2025 journal article by Perugia, Babb, Scherini, Rowley, Logan, Shirowzhan, Lu, and Pettit. In teaching, Scherini coordinates units including 'Understanding Governance in Planning' and 'Governance for Planning in Australia,' delivering essential instruction on planning governance frameworks. Her scholarly works are accessible via ORCID iD 0000-0002-3900-1348.