Current PhD students
Meet and be inspired by our Architecture PhD students.
| Name | Thesis title | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|
| Majd Atef Alnajem | Rethinking conservation practices of heritage buildings: The case of Amman | Dr Leandro Minuchin (1st); Prof Stephen Walker (2nd) |
| Felipe Aravena Tejo | On-site modernities: Transformations in the Chilean construction sector towards the industrialisation of the housing supply (1959-1976) | Dr Leandro Minuchin (1st); Dr Matthew Wells (2nd) |
| Omar Campos Rivera | Memory places or urban marketing spaces? The mediatic spatial narratives of restorative justice in Latin America | Dr Léa-Catherine Szacka (1st); Dr. Leandro Minuchin (2nd) |
| Rati Choudhari | Environmentally sustainable futures: The potential of modular city planning | Prof Deljana Iossifova (1st), Dr Joe Ravetz (2nd), Prof Ulysses Sengupta (3rd) |
| Mariza Daouti | Vulnerable landscapes. An urban inquiry into the flammability of Greek rural space | Dr Kim Förster (1st); Dr Trude Renwick (2nd) |
| Mariya Hamada | From ruins to ecosystems: Towards an eco-cyclical approach to architectural afterlives | Dr Kim Förster (1st); Prof Stephen Walker (2nd) |
| David Johnson | Photo encounters with my personal possessions: Explorations of attachment and care | Prof Stephen Walker (1st); Dr Leandro Minuchin (2nd) |
| Xin Li | Fair shelter: Civic infrastructures of care for bodies in pain | Prof Deljana Iossifova (1st), Prof Sarah Marie Hall (2nd), Prof Alison Browne (3rd) |
| Ahmed Naguib | Capital city in the making: Mapping the production process of the new administrative capital in Egypt. | Dr Leandro Minuchin (1st); Dr Léa-Catherine Szacka (2nd) |
| Nesfun Nahar | A pragmatist understanding of campus architecture-making: The case of BRAC University new campus and The University of Manchester engineering building A and B | Prof Stephen Walker (1st); Dr Benjamin Blackwell (2nd) |
| Azna Parveen Palakka Palliyali | Spatial manifestations of monsoon Islam: The Mappila settlements of Malabar | Dr Kim Förster (1st), Dr Trude Renwick (2nd) |
| Qiwei Peng | Elevated highways as social infrastructures interrogating the assemblage of diasporic pedestrians in chongqing under-flyover space | Prof. Stephen Walker (1st), Prof. Deljana Iossifova (2nd) |
| Ziqiu Ren | Filming everyday temporal-spatial patterns: Food markets as infrastructural nodes in Chinese urban-rural continuum | Prof Deljana Iossifova (1st); Dr Trude Renwick (2nd), Dr. Huda Tayob (external) |
| Gonzalo Sanchez Garcia | Design governance at the public/private interface: An evaluation of design codes and their role in promoting quality in UK urban developments | Dr Alan Lewis (1st); Dr Matthew Wells (2nd) |
| Mark Shtanov | Urban integration of waste management processes | Prof Deljana Iossifova (1st), Dr Jaise Kuriakose (2nd) |
| Joshua Silver | Architectural processing: Rethinking the material medial supports of design production since 1983 | Dr Kim Förster (1st); Dr Matthew Wells (2nd) |
| Salma Soliman | The making and unmaking of comfort: The study of mothers, domestic spaces, and architectural standards | Prof Stephen Walker (1st); Dr Matthew Wells (2nd) |
| Cesar Vicencio Vega | The discarded city of extractivism. The case of the Chuquicamata copper mine, Chile | Dr Leandro Minuchin (1st); Dr Kim Förster (2nd) |
| Rujin Wang | Enhancing residential satisfaction and quality of life for older adults in China's urban communities: Design strategies for age-friendly outdoor environments | Prof Deljana Iossifova (1st); Dr. Nan Zhang (2nd) |
| Junyan YE | Transcultural life stories of nature: Chinese international students’ experiences with urban nature from China to Manchester | Prof Deljana Iossifova (1st); Dr Matthew Dennis (2nd); Dr Alison Browne (2nd) |
| Wentao Zeng | Virtual reality-based spatial daylighting evaluation system | Dr Alan Lewis (1st); Dr Camilla Lewis (2nd); (currently: Dr Benjamin Blackwell) |
| Yaran Zhang | Geopolitics on display: Chinese pavilion at Venice architecture biennale [2006-2023] | Dr Léa-Catherine Szacka (1st); Dr Ewan Harrison (2nd) |