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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 


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


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