DrGlenn P. Costin

Unit Chair, lecturer and or tutor for the following units Core to the Bachelor of Construction Management (Professional) (BCM), Bachelor of Design (Architecture) (BDA) and the double degrees BDA/BCM and BCM/BPRE (Properties and Real Estate):

• SRT151  Construction and Structures 1
• SRT251 Construction and Structures 2 
• SRT351 Construction and Structures 3  
• SRR402 Construction Research Thesis

Also:

• SRT159 Construction Project 1 (Core only to the BCM)

And:

• SRR721 Construction Research Project (Core to the Master of Construction Management [Professional] [MCM])

Dr Costin also guest lectures on speciality areas in the units: SRV449 - Bushfire, SRV799 - Bushfire (both are course Capstone units), SRM776 - National Construction Code, SRM489 - Ethics of Materiality, SRD164 - Design + Structure, SRA143 - Force to Form (Practical).

Dr Costin’s teaching history is extensive, highly regarded, cross-sectorial and international. Beginning in the United Kingdom’s vocational sector delivering the City & Guilds carpentry & Joinery qualifications, Dr Costin returned to Australia where he adopted a similar role with TAFE NSW in Griffith. Following a year designing, constructing, project managing and teaching Papua New Guinea Nationals to construct school and accommodation buildings on Manus Island, he returned to take up a TAFE NSW appointment in Albury. Some of his notable and novel teaching interventions during this period included:

• Quick Hut 2000 project with the Dusseldorp Skills Foundation (including leading the team representing Australia at the 1st APEC Youth Skills Forum in Korea to showcase the outputs)
• Guiding and training Albury's Dragon’s Abreast cancer survivors in construction of arguably the nation's most lauded timber dragon boat
• Development of a First Nations LearnScape with the National Environment Centre
• Engaging high school youth to construct and install a modularised timber footbridge over an indigenous artist's tiled mosaic watercourse at Lake Sambell, Beechworth.

Entering the university sector in 2018 at Deakin’s Waterfront campus, Dr Costin sits between the disciplines of architecture and construction management, developing and delivering as Unit Chair the key structural units critical to both fields of endeavour. Again, his notable teaching interventions have led to significant improvements in leaning outcomes as well as his student groups winning prestigious awards in the USA and Australia, including consecutive 1sts in the Autodesk Challenge Cup (2024 & 2025).

In addition, Dr Costin lectures into multiple other units, including Masters and Undergraduate capstones covering concepts such as bushfire, ethics of materiality, the National Construction Code and architectural structural history. In the latter, his highly engaging practical lectures are keenly attended by students for their grounded exposition of historical architectural forms evolving from forces, materiality and the attendant skill and knowledge development across millennia. The value of such lectures has echoed outwards, drawing in students from other universities seeking greater understanding of these important structural elements. The construction management Honours units, research methods and thesis are also commonly undertaken as Unit Chair and or teaching where he is highly respected, with spaces in his tutorials keenly sought after.

Dr Costin’s skills, knowledge and adaptability have become known to other universities, where he has lecturered in such prestigious programs as University of Melbourne Law School’s Master of Construction Law.  This adaptability has also led to him often being the first in the school, frequently the faculty, to adopt new delivery approaches, and to bring First Nations ways of being doing and knowing into the school’s curricula. The latter reflecting his extensive experience on country throughout Australia including the National Environment Centre and Charles Darwin University's Alice Springs campus.