Elizabeth Grant (anthropologist)
| Elizabeth Grant | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963 Mount Gambier, Australia |
| Nationality |
 Australian |
| Alma mater | The University of Adelaide |
| Occupation | Architectural anthropologist, Academic |
| Spouse(s) | Leonard Cohen |
| Children | Todd, Paul and Timothy |
| Website | Official website |
Elizabeth Grant (born 1963) is an Australian architectural anthropologist and academic working in the field of Indigenous Architecture at the University of Adelaide. She researches, writes and speaks on architecture and design for Indigenous peoples and prison architecture and reform. She is a regular guest on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National and ABC Local Radio. She regularly writes and reviews architectural projects for architectural magazines such as Architecture Australia, the journal of the Australian Institute of Architects, the Australian Design Review and others.
Grant was born and raised in Mount Gambier, South Australia. Her German immigrant father, Berthold Enderl valued education highly due to interrupted schooling and experiences growing up during World War II in Regensburg and encouraged his children to study and work hard. He stated "education is the only thing that cannot be taken away from you."
Grant appeared with her eldest son, Todd on the third season of The Amazing Race Australia.
Grant's early schooling was in Mount Gambier, prior to taking up studies at the University of Adelaide. Grant was awarded an undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Adelaide and was a collegian at St Ann's College during her studies. Grant later studied and was awarded a Graduate Diploma and a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies. Her master's thesis examined the development of Aboriginal housing at Oak Valley after land rights were granted under Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture from the University of Adelaide on her thesis entitled 'Towards Safer and more congruent environments for Aboriginal Prisoners.' The doctoral thesis was supervised by Professor Terence Williamson and Dr Paul Memmott and examined Aboriginal people's preference for prison environments as a mechanism to reduce negative behaviours such as deaths in custody in prison environments. It was the first empirical study of its kind.
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