Prospective Research Topics and Supervisors
Altan, Dr Hasim
Sustainable architecture, environmental design, energy efficient building design, low carbon impact buildings, building energy use, zero energy housing, building integrated renewable energy technologies.
Awan, Dr Nishat
Diversity, post-coloniality and geo-politics in spatial practice and theory. Creative research methodologies, including the topological as method. The intersection of culture and technology.
Blundel Jones, Prof Peter
Architectural history and theory of the 19th and 20th centuries, architectural anthropology, urban history, writing and criticism.
Cerulli, Dr Cristina
Knowledge in design processes, emergence and complexity, non conventional practice, management and procurement.
Chiles, Prue
Architectural and urban design and new futures, participative processes, learning environments, re-defining contemporary architectural practice, home environments and their anthropology, and research by design.
Cruise, Dr Rachel
Structural engineering, Life Cycle Costing and Life Cycle Assessment, the relationship between structural engineering and architecture, methodologies of design, fabrication and production processes.
Fotios, Prof Steve
Research in lighting, research methods for visual psychophysics, building services, and environmental design.
Hoskyns, Dr Teresa
Design and project based PhD's. Public space, public realm, public sphere. Civil society. Theatre and performance. Feminist theory and practice. Social and political production of space. Political philosophy, democratic theory, and cultural geography.
Jones, Dr Lucy
The sociology of sustainable architecture, eco-housing, identity and values, architectural philosophy, phenomenography, planning theory, straw-bale building, self-build, environmental campaigns, and activist geographies.
Kang, Prof Jian
Computer simulation for room acoustics and environmental noise control, auralisation, urban soundscape and acoustic comfort considering social and psychological aspects of sounds, acoustic scalemodeling, acoustic materials.
Kossak, Dr Florian
Urban history, contemporary urbanism, urban design, experimental mediation of architecture.
Lintonbon, Dr Jo
Urban history and theory of the 19th and 20th centuries, building conservation and conservation led urban regeneration, design approaches within the historic built environment.
Meagher, Dr Mark
Augmented environments, digital forms of making, smart materials, information visualization, architecture and social media.
Parnell, Dr Rosie
Children and young people’s environments, learning environments, the user in design and education.
Peng, Dr Chengzhi
Climate change conscious urban neighbourhood design, mixed reality modelling for co-design of smart spaces, locative media and social computing in urban context modelling, interlinking architectural modelling and writing.
Petrescu, Prof Doian
Feminist theory and practice, participation in architecture, contemporary theory, politics and poetics of space, activist praxis and education, culture and resilience.
Phiri, Dr Michael
Architecture and wellbeing, evidence-based healthcare design, healthcare guidance/standards and design tools, development of electronic databases, infrastructure planning and capital project implementation, post-occupancy evaluation.
Samuel, Prof Flora
Architectural history and education, the home, issues of quality and value, architectural and urban design, detail design, analytical psychology.
Schneider, Dr Tatjana
Production and political economy of the built environment (in particular housing); reframing of architectural practice (architecture as spatial agency); ‘alternative’ practice; collaboration.
Stevenson, Prof Fionn
Sustainable design, building performance evaluation, housing occupancy feedback, occupant behaviour, bioregionality, ecological construction materials and products, design for usability, deconstruction and re-use.
Tyszczuk, Dr Renata
The contemporary city, experimental practice, reframing sustainability.
Walker, Dr Stephen
Contemporary theory, art and architecture. Urban histories, theories, and the contemporary city.
Wang, Dr Tsung-Hsien
Performance-driven design process, parametric modelling, geometry construction and optimisation, cloud-based computing for interactive/real-time building information visualisation, building information interoperation, automated sustainable evaluation.
Wigglesworth, Prof Sarah
The architectural profession, gender and architecture.