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 |
|---|---|
| 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 Irit Katz | Spaces of displacement, migration and refuge; Urban spaces of ethnic and cultural diversity, exclusion and inequality; Camps (refugee camps, migrant camps, resettlement camps, protest camps, detention camps, etc.); Transnational and urban borderscapes; Spaces of conflict and violence; Housing, including rights and evictions, emergency shelters and diaspora homes; The relations between politics, aesthetics, and poetics; Critical spatial practice; Critical theories, including urban critical theories, feminist theories, post/decolonial theories and political philosophy |
| Dr Florian Kossak | Urban history, contemporary urbanism, urban design, experimental mediation of architecture. |
| Dr Ranald Lawrence | Environmental design, history of environment, urban history, architectural regionalism, building performance evaluation, occupant behaviour, adaptive comfort theory. |
| Dr Jo Lintonbon | Urban history and theory of the 19th and 20th centuries, building conservation and conservation led urban regeneration, design approaches within the historic built environment. |
| Dr Krzysztof Nawratek | Post-capitalist city (crisis of neoliberal city model), Post-secular urban theory (city and religions), Urban Re-industrialisation |
| 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. |