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Academic Staff
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Research Interests
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Seraphim Alvanides
ABE PhD Studies Programme Leader |
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- Built environment effects on public behaviour and health.
- Population data analysis, urban sprawl and sustainability.
- Active travel uptake: walking, cycling, public transport.
- GI Systems/Science; Big/Open Data; Spatial Data Science.
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| Zaid Alwan |
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- BIM and low carbon appraisals
- Engineering sustainability and green building benchmarks
- Building performance evaluations
- Building assessment expertise
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| James Charlton |
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- City planning, urban design and public participation
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) including heritage BIM
- Digital Communication (Inc. Virtual / Augmented Reality)
- Digital tools, such as laser scanning and virtual city models
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Ruth Conroy Dalton
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- Spatial cognition and space syntax
- Creativity and design processes
- Phenomenology and experience
- Virtual environments
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| Bob Giddings |
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- Architectural design methodologies and design quality
- House design and the development of communities
- Post-city structuring approach to urban design
- Future of the city centre
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| Kanchana Ginige |
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- Disaster risk reduction in the built environment (non-technological measures)
- Optimising risk transfer and risk sharing through construction contracts
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| Paul Greenhalgh |
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- Real estate economics, commercial property, and spatial analysis of markets
- Regeneration, planning and real estate development
- Financialisation of real estate assets and business rates data modelling
- Property vacancy and adaptive reuse
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| Peter Holgate |
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- Creative re-use, craftsmanship and tradition
- Place identity
- Architecture and health
- Architectural education
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| Oliver Jones |
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- Architectural/environmental psychology
- Human experience in virtual environments
- Human-environment interaction
- Digital technologies and the urban environment
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| Paul Jones |
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- Creativity and design process
- Architecture and well-being
- Architecture and prefabrication
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| Lesley McIntyre |
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- Human Building Interaction (HBI), spatial cognition and user experience
- Participatory engagement methods (across age, impairment and disability); well-being, enablement and social inclusion
- Human interaction within buildings across different contexts, typologies and scales.
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- Urban financialisation: business rate retention, tax increment finance, accelerated development zones and methods of property taxation
- Property markets and economic development
- Urban adaptation and the future city
- Real Estate Modelling: Big/open data, dark data, urban analytics, GISc
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| Rosie Parnell |
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- Children’s spaces, children’s experiences of built environment
- Participatory design, design and creative process, play, designing with children
- Architectural/built environment education, spatial literacy
- Learning, pedagogy, space: learning environments, school design
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| Giovanni Pesce |
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- Lime and cementitious binders for construction;
- Nanomaterials and waste utilisation in construction;
- PHREEQC for modelling chemical reactions and processes in construction materials;
- Development of smart sensors for monitoring degradation processes in historic buildings
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| Kyung Wook Seo |
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- Housing form and culture: vernacular and modern dwellings and their transformation
- Open Building: Design and investigation of flexible and modular homes, and building components
- Space Syntax: Morphological analysis of urban fabric, building forms and interior layouts
- Environmental Behaviour: Human cognition and interaction with built environment
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| Ayse Ozbil Torun |
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- Space syntax
- Walkability
- Urban form
- Built environment and public health
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| Ernest Ameyaw |
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- Public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure and services delivery (incl. Smart PPPs)
- Construction business: Risk management strategies and practices of construction contractor organisations
- Corruption and ethical issues in infrastructure procurement
- Sustainable construction - carbon management and green building technologies in construction
- Construction informatics (e.g. BIM / digital technologies) and their impact on project performance
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Zahirah Mokhtar Azizi
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- Soft Cost Elements (SCE) and its impact on sustainable development
- Decision-making for sustainability
- Economic sustainability in the built environment
- Sustainable cities and communities
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Gayan Wedawatta
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- Procurement in the construction industry (with special emphasis on collaborative approaches to procurement)
- Cost and contract management in construction
- Disaster resilience in the built environment (especially flood adaptation)
- Post-disaster re-construction and recovery
- Construction 4.0 for disaster resilience
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Kishor Zingre
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- Designing low carbon buildings using bio-inspired concepts
- Building energy modelling, simulations and analysis
- Formulation of heat transfer models for energy-efficient envelope surfaces
- Building Information Modelling
- Intelligent building automation
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