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The Department's Professor Emily So is one of the judges for the 2025 Institution of Civil Engineers East of England Merit Awards

16 May 2025

The Awards celebrate the work of professionals engaged in civil engineering infrastructure and the built environment in East of England. You can find more information: https://www.ice.org.uk/about-us/ice-near-you/uk/ice-east-of-england/awards

Dr Fiona Smyth elected to Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society

16 May 2025

Dr Fiona Smyth has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). Founded in 1868, the Royal Historical Society (RHS) is the UK’s foremost society working for historians and history.Fellowship is awarded to scholars who have made an original and significant contribution to historical scholarship through their...

Harnessing AI for addressing air pollution in cities

14 May 2025

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Ramit Debnath, Assistant Professor, on the publication of ‘Physics-based machine learning for predicting urban air pollution using decadal time series data’ in Environmental Research Communications. In this collaborative work with Caltech, researchers develop a new model and...

The Faculty of Architecture and History of Art is proud to retain our Athena Swan Bronze Award for Gender Equality

13 May 2025

The Athena Swan award is a national framework used in higher education and research to promote gender equality and advance the careers of women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) and other fields. It recognises institutions and departments that demonstrate a commitment to creating a more...

The department congratulates our first-ever MPhil (MAUS) students from Bhutan, Pema Yangzom and Sonam Choden, on publishing their MAUS dissertation in a top urban planning journal, Cities

12 May 2025

This dissertation was supervised by Dr Ronita Bardhan and can be read in full here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275125001878 . This research empirically shows that in Bhutan, happiness isn't just a philosophy—it shapes policies, communities, and even housing. The paper ‘Residential Satisfaction...

Ranked 2nd in the Times Higher Education Supplement World Rankings for Architecture 2025

Current job vacancies

Applications are invited for three Design Teaching Fellows in the Department of Architecture. These post are fractional, i.e. 25.3% of...

The Department of Architecture invites applications for two full-time Teaching Associates working within the Department of Architecture...