PhD Students

Rand Agha

  • Comprehensive Intelligence in Sustainable Courtyard House Architecture
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  • Supervised by: John Kamara and Ian Thompson

Oluwatoyin Akim

  • Impact of Community Participation on Peri-Urban Development Projects in Akure, Nigeria
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  • Supervised by: John Kamara and Martin Beattie

Mabrouk Alsheliby

  • Crisis of traditional identity in built environment of the Saudi cities. a case study: The old city of Tabuk
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  • Supervised by: Martin Beattie and Andrew Ballentyne

Abdelatif El-Allous

  • The Contemporary Role and Transformation of Civic Public Architecture: The Case of Tripoli's Central Municipal Building, Libya
  • Supervised by Martyn Dade-Robertson and Ali Madanipour

Yun Dai

  • The Conservation of Twentieth Century Architecture in China
  • Supervised by Adam Sharr and John Pendlebury

Mohamed Mahgoub Elnabawi

  • Natural Ventilation: An Evaluation of Strategies for Improving Indoor Air Quality in Hospitals of Semi-Arid Climates
  • Supervised by: Neveen Hamza and Steve Dudek

Keiji Makino

  • An Ecology of Land Use
  • Supervised by: Adam Sharr and John Pendlebury

Najla Mansour

  • Learning from Vernacular Natural Ventilated Residential houses in Mediterranean climate zone of Lebanon; and developing its application methods in designing contemporary housing in Beirut
  • Supervised by: Martin Beattie and Graham Farmer

Catalina Mejia-Moreno

  • On Repetition: Photograhpy in/as architectural criticism - Working through the archives of Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich's German Pavilion and the North American concrete grain elevators
  • Supervised by Katie Lloyd Thomas and Mark Dorrian

Mohammed Mohammed

  • Natural Ventilation: An Evaluation of Strategies for Improving Indoor Air Quality in Hospitals of Semi-Arid Climates
  • Supervised by: Steve Dudek and Neveen Hamza

Macarena Beltan Rodriguez

  • Modelling the effects of household practices on heating energy consumption in social housing. A case study in Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Supervised by: Carlos Calderon and P. James (Civil Engineering)

Khalid Setaih

  • Usage of Thermally Comfortable Outdoor Space through the Lens of Adaptive Microclimate
  • Supervised by Neveen Hamza and Tim Townsend

Dhruv Sookhoo

  • Becoming Planners and Architects: the Formation of Perspectives on Residential Design Quality
  • Supervised by: Andrew Ballantyne and Geoff Vigar

Tijana Stevanović

  • After the Blueprint: Questions around the unfinished in New Belgrade
  • Supervised by: Katie Lloyd Thomas and Mark Dorrian

Salem Tarhuni

  • Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Construction - Case of Tower Buildings in Libya
  • Supervised by John Kamara and Peter Walker

Javier Urquizo

  • A Spatial Carbon Analysis Model for Retrofitting the Guayaquil’s Residential Sector – GURCC as a Case Study
  • Supervised by: Carlos Calderon and P. James (Civil Engineering)

Sha Miao