PhD Welcome to MORE 2026

PHD STUDENTS in The School of Architecture + Cities are engaged in wide-ranging areas of research that fall within and across the School’s five research groups: Architectural Humanities; Emerging Territories; Design Practices; and Heritage + Place. Recently completed theses have made pioneering contributions to global scholarship in climate change, transport, urban planning, heritage and adaptive reuse.

Those who completed this year include: Lorna Stevenson whose thesis is entitled, ‘Multiple Purposes in Policy Pilots: Interrogating English Experiences with E-Scooters’; Rofayda Salem with her thesis, ‘Mashrabiya in passive cooling: Integrating Concepts of Mashrabiya into an Innovative Ceramic Evaporative Screen’; and Shengkang Fu whose thesis is entitled ‘Creative placemaking in heritage sites: The case of Wudadao, Tianjin, China’.

In addition to standard-route PhDs, we continue to supervise students working towards PhD by Published Work and PhD by Practice. These models of doctorate offer routes into postgraduate study for outstanding professionals with an established body of work, and have also helped to forge valuable connections with industry.

This year we welcomed 11 PhD candidates, including three by Published Work and one by Design Practice.

For further details about our PhD programme, visit: 

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees

Krystallia Kamvasinou

PhD Coordinator

Candidates / PhD