Find a supervisor
Successful candidates to a PhD will be allocated a primary supervisor and a secondary supervisor to guide and support your research. Our overall aim is to provide careful, sympathetic and expert supervision from active researchers.

Supervisors and research topics
Supervisor | Research interests |
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Dr Emma Cheatle | Critical-creative spatial theory and ficto-critical writing; Feminist and de-colonial theory, practice and pedagogy; Urban common land; Health and maternity architecture; Modernist art and architecture; Interdisciplinary topics between art architecture and literature |
Dr Wen-Shao Chang | Timber Engineering, Bamboo Engineering, Structural Materials, Building Conservation, Earthquake Engineering, Structural Control |
Professor Steve Fotios | Research in lighting for pedestrians, drivers and cyclists; research methods for visual psychophysics. |
Professor Karim Hadjri | Inclusive/age-friendly design; Ageing-in-place: accessible design; Design for health and wellbeing; Design of dementia-friendly environments; Design of enabling environments. |
Dr Luis Hernan |
Internet of Things; Digital domesticity; Biodesign; Emergent Materials; Object Oriented Ontology; New Materialsm; Philosophy of Design/Design Philosophy; Research through Design. |
Dr Krzysztof Nawratek | Post-capitalist city (crisis of neoliberal city model), Post-secular urban theory (city and religions), Urban Re-industrialisation |
Dr Catalina Mejía Moreno | Feminist, decolonial and anticolonial theory, practice and pedagogy; Creative and interdisciplinary research between art, media and architecture; Spatial practices and discourses of power and resistance; Minor and subaltern architectures; Social and environmental inequality and conflict; Modernity, politics and architecture with an emphasis on architectures and the south and transcontinental and transatlantic flows and networks. |
Dr Chengzhi Peng | Morphological descriptors/predictors in urban microclimate simulation of neighbourhood planning and building design; Modelling environmental stress vulnerability of a city’s building stocks (e.g., dwelling, cultural heritage, healthcare, industrial etc.) in future climate to inform sustainable stock management |
Professor Doina Petrescu | Feminist theory and practice, participation in architecture, contemporary theory, politics and poetics of space, activist praxis and education, culture and resilience. |
Dr Xiang Ren | Architectural history and theory of 20th century, Modernism and after; Social and cultural anthropological studies of building and settlement; Vernacular, participative and socially-engaged architecture; Rapid urbanism and traditional villages; Architectural disciplinarily viable knowledge production and dissemination; Architectural research practice and design research |
Professor Darren Robinson | Statistical modelling of peoples’ presence, activities, comfort and behaviours; Multi-agent stochastic simulation, integrating the statistical models with complementary representations of agents’ decisions; Solar radiation and daylight modelling in the urban context; Urban energy simulation; Integrated modelling of the spatial structures and functioning of urban systems. |
Dr Sally Shahzad | Personal Comfort Systems (PCS); Thermal comfort; Environmental control; User behaviour; Energy efficiency; Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE); Healthy buildings; Ventilation strategies; Sustainable architecture; Low carbon design. |
Professor Fionn Stevenson | Sustainable design, building performance evaluation, housing occupancy feedback, occupant behaviour, bioregionality, ecological construction materials and products, design for usability, deconstruction and re-use. |
Professor Renata Tyszczuk | The contemporary city, experimental practice, reframing sustainability. |
Dr Jim Uttley | Behaviour in the built environment; Light and lighting; Active travel within the built environment; Road safety; Behavioural research methods; Visual behaviour within the built environment |
Dr Tsung-Hsien Wang | Performance-driven design process, geometry construction and optimisation, cloud-based computing for interactive/real-time building information modelling and visualisation, information interoperation for building performance simulation and sustainability evaluation. |
Dr Parag Wate | Procedural Building and Urban scale modelling; Building and Urban Energy Simulation; Parametric programming and computation for Simulation; Data-driven methods for Sustainable Built Environment; Uncertainty Quantification in Building and Urban performance prediction. |