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Browse the academic profiles of our Architecture staff.
Academic staff
Dr Benjamin Blackwell
Lecturer in Architecture
Research Specialisms: Architectures of Science, Architectures of Education, Science and Technology Studies, Architecture and Power
Dr Kim Förster
Lecturer in Architectural Studies
Research specialisms: Environmental histories of architecture, landscape and the urban; Archives of (energy) transition and the geopolitics of cement and sustainability genealogy of architectural culture and pedagogy
Dr Ewan Harrison
Lecturer in Architectural Studies
Prof Deljana Iossifova
Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies
Research specialisms: Global urban transformations; Sustainable infrastructure transitions; Urban borderlands and coexistence; Urban ageing; Emerging urban phenomena
Dr Chathu Jayakody
Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism
Dr Alan Lewis
Senior Lecturer in Architectural Studies
Research specialisms: Health and wellbeing; Older people's housing; Building users' experience; Social construction of building users; Design standards
Dr Camilla Lewis
Lecturer in Architectural Studies
Research specialisms: Urban regeneration; Urban studies and ageing; Urban change and inequalities; housing, belonging and community
Dr Leandro Minuchin
Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Global Urbanism
Dr Trude Renwick
Lecturer in Architectural Studies
Professor of Architectural History
Research specialisms: Materialist epistemologies of architecture; Architecture in the global Cold War; Mobilities of architecture: people, materials, technologies, images; Postcolonial architecture in West Africa and the Middle East; GIS-based architectural historiography
Dr Léa-Catherine Szacka
Senior Lecturer in Architectural Studies
Research specialisms: Architecture curating and the history of architecture exhibitions; Postmodern architecture; Ephemeral architecture in the 19th and 20th century; Oral history; Media and architecture
Dr Huda Tayob
Lecturer in Architectural Studies
Prof Stephen Walker
Professor of Architectural Humanities
Research specialisms: Art and architecture; Fairgrounds and temporary architectures; Critical theory; Visual research methods; Architecture and the body
Dr Matthew Wells
Lecturer in Architectural Studies
Research specialisms: Modern architecture in Britain and Europe (1815–1945); architectural drawings and models; technological and material histories of architecture; Victorian and Edwardian built environment in the British world
Rosamund Lily West
Lecturer in Architectural Studies
Prof Albena Yaneva
Professor in Architectural Theory
Research specialisms: The relational turn in architecture; Pragmatist philosophy and architecture; ANT politics of design and urban controversies; Anthropology of design and construction practice; Architectural collections
Research Associates
Dr Niamh Kavanagh
Research Associate
Research Assistants
Elsa Holm
Research Assistant
Professional support staff
Lara Gerrard
Workshop Technician
Scott Miller
Technical Workshop Manager
Angus Riddell
Workshop Assistant
Paulina Voang
Workshop Assistant