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) |