Graduate School With currently over 80 PhD students and 85 PGT students from the UK, Europe and further afield, the school has one of the largest cohorts of architecturally based research students in the UK, reflecting its pre-eminence in the field of architectural research. The Graduate School embraces these Doctoral programmes, it fosters links between PhD students and research staff, and supports the flourishing research culture within the School. Our PhD research is intrinsically inter-disciplinary and is open to students with an interest in any aspect of architectural research. These include histories, theories, practices and politics of architecture, environmental design (lighting, acoustics and the thermal environment), sustainability and structures, design processes and user behaviour, computer-aided design, emergent systems and complexity, sociotechnical systems (particularly related to sustainable energy technologies) urban design and development, community design and participation, places and place-making, children’s environments, feminist approaches, transformative education and practice. With a tradition of innovative education, our PhD Programmes encourage student-led initiatives and exchanges in research and education. We have a programme of events and seminars, often shared with larger research groups in SSoA, and more informal lunchtime research meetings. The PGR School also organizes informal meetings and formal public presentations for PhD students, and other research cluster activities such as the on-going East-West seminars, Lines of Flight, and the Lighting, Home and Digital Groups. Our students continue to win prizes for their work. For example, Reinhard Neubauer was awarded a 2015 Newman Student Award Medal for his PhD on “Subjective Estimation of Airborne Sound Insulation;” Zeynep Keskin received an award as a finalist in the 2015 Young Lighter of the Year Award, organised by the Society for Light and Lighting; Ahmed Louay Ahmed (as part of the Northern Ireland BIM Hub team) won the award for best Architectural Design and Presentation (Best Use of BIM for Design, Drama and Excitement) at Build Newcastle Live; Gloria Vargas was awarded for the best paper presentation in the Thermal Comfort Sessions for a paper she coauthored with Fionn Stevenson on ‘Thermal History and sequences in transitional spaces; does order matter?’ at the 7th International Conference of SuDBE2015, 27th-29th July 2015, Reading; and Xiang Ren was awarded the prestigious ‘2015 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad’.
Current PhD Students Sadiq Abid Annie-Brient Aboagye Ahmed Ahmed Pouyan Akbari Mohamad Al Taha Maha Al-Ugaily Yahia Ali Taghi Amirhosseini Carolyn Butterworth Choong Yew Chang Shen Chen Jianyu Chen Michael Coates Andrew Colau Ahmed El-Astal Rafael Mauricio Eufrasio Espinosa Fariba Fani Molki Rui Miguel Ferreira dos Santos Scott Fox Ziyad Frances Fabio Franz Carl Fraser Ayesha Ghazanfar Caterina Giuliani Diego Andres Gonzalez Carrasco Meryem Gurel Vera Hale Ahlam Harahsheh Gillian Horn Junjie Huang Iulia Hurducuas Hyunju Jang Dongwon Jeong Like Jiang Sarah Joyce Daniel Kerr Zeynep Keskin Cressida Kocienski Derong Kong Andreas Lang Phillip Langley
Efstathios Margaritis Alona Martinez-Perez Ula Abdali Khalel Merie Juliza Mohamad Nurul Mohamad Aiman Mohd Rashid Kate Morland Jingyi Mu Aya Musmar Katlego Pleasure Mwale Gunes Nazif Patrick Okofu Kristanti Paramita Junghyun Park Eleni Pashia Oscar Armando Preciado Perez Octavianus Priyanto Hussain Qasem Fei Qu Xiang Ren Shima Rezaei Rashnoodi Chada Romcai Chwas Sabr Emad Salih Cagri Sanliturk Emmett Scanlon Masa Sorn Helen Stratford Reem Sultan Piers Taylor Ian Trowell Nor Izura Tukiman Claire Tymon Alberto Urrutia Maria Van Elk Samuel Vardy Bo Wang Rosie Ward Amro Yaghi Choo Yoon Yi Juri Yoshimi Yang Yu
Al-Chokhdar Yussur Shuyou Zhang Litao Zhou Congratulations to students who successfully completed their PhD during this year: Sukainah Almousa Habid Becerra Ruxandra Berinde Rully Damayanti Ali Eltrapolsi Maryam Fazel Reaingard Neubauer Shuntaro Nozawa Julia Udall James Uttley Gloria Vargas Palma 01 MAUD field trip - Berlin 02 SAS field trip - Switzerland 03 MAAD field trip - Milan