Professor Paul Memmott is an anthropologist and architect, and for some decades was the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland, School of Architecture and Institute for Social Science Research. This has now become the Aboriginal Environments Research Collaborative (AERC) within the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Queensland. The AERC has provided and continues to provide an applied research focus on a range of topics in relation to Indigenous populations, including institutional architecture, vernacular architecture, housing, crowding, governance, well-being, homelessness, family violence and social planning for communities.