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Academic staff
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 Deljana Iossifova
Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies
Research specialisms: Global urban transformations; Sustainable infrastructure transitions; Urban borderlands and coexistence; Urban ageing; Emerging urban phenomena
Dr Alan Lewis
Lecturer in Architecture
Research specialisms: Health and wellbeing; Older people's housing; Building users' experience; Social construction of building users; Design standards
Dr Leandro Minuchin
Lecturer in Architecture and Global Urbanism
Dr Lukasz Stanek
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
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
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 Stephen Walker
Reader in Architecture
Research specialisms: Art and architecture; Fairgrounds and temporary architectures; Critical theory; Visual research methods; Architecture and the body
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
Eric Cheung
Research Associate
Dr Youcao Ren
Research Associate
Professional support staff
James Backhouse
Senior Workshop Technician
Scott Miller
Workshop Technician
Research specialisms: The use of modelmaking in architectural education and practice; The history and origins of architectural modelmaking