I am a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and the MArch course leader at Sheffield Hallam University. I teach design studios and the history and theory of architecture across undergraduate and postgraduate courses. My research is broadly focused on urban inequalities and socially-engaged design practice and education. I have been an active architectural practitioner since 2004, working in the UK and internationally.

I have extensive professional experience of practice in various contexts, including post-socialist and post-conflict environments and in different types of architecture practices and international organisations (United Nations Development Programme/UNDP, Shelter Centre, Architecture & Développement). I have also been involved in initiating projects with local groups and communities. For example, here in Sheffield I was part of an alternative development agency (SKINN) as well as an experimental urban practice (Sheffield Dream City). Currently I am an Associate of Architecture Sans Frontières-UK (ASF-UK), a not-for-profit organisation that supports communities and practitioners in co-designing more equitable cities. 

Over the years my work has been funded by: ESRC, British Council, Newton Fund, Humanities in the European Research Area, Erasmus+, European Cultural Foundation, Leonardo Da Vinci Programme, European Urban Research Association, Department for International Development, Norwegian People’s Aid, Austrian Development Agency, The University of Sheffield (PhD Faculty Scholarship, Research Exchange for the Social Sciences, Festival of the Mind, Arts and Humanities Knowledge Exchange and Impact), University of Westminster (Sustainable Cities and the Urban Environment Research Community), Sheffield Hallam University (Staff Student Research Project, Research Support Fund).