A strategic research cluster bringing together researchers from spatial planning, architecture and civil engineering to tackle some of the world's most pressing urban challenges.
- Fostering strategic partnerships with other leading research centres;
- Engaging with key research users and maximising impact;
- Supporting our best early career researchers.
Our research is guided by the challenges of:
- Environmentally Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development;
- Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Prosperity and Opportunities for All;
- Technological Innovation; and
- … a need to meet Sustainable Development Goals for cities, climate, environment and communities.
Cluster Staff, Students and Projects
Academic Staff |
Key Interests |
PhD Student |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. D. Adlakha | Healthy cities; active living; sustainable lifestyles; urban transformations | Danielle McCarthy |
| Dr G. Boyd | Architectural design; militarization; infrastructure and architecture; the architecture of coal; architecture of the supermarket; economics and architecture | Stephanie Helm-Grovas |
| Mrs. T. Brooks | ||
| Prof J. Chen | Samuel English, Yaqi Li | |
| Prof G. Ellis (Cluster Research Director) | Health and built environment; energy transition; environmental policy | Ruibing Kou |
| Dr. W Flannery | Marine and coastal planning; stakeholder participation; flood risk management | Ibama Brown, Nuala Carr, Jane Clarke, Benedict McAteer, Maria Pafi, Sheck Sherif |
| Dr. L. Fox-Rogers | Power and politics of planning; neoliberalisation; flood risk preparedness; creative economy | |
| Dr. J. Gunning | Tara Brooks, Danny Ó Cléirigh Ó hÁgáin | |
| Prof G. Keeffe | Emma Campbell, Kevin Roddy, Clare Mulholland, Qiyao Han, Claire Patricia McVeigh | |
| Mr. S. Larkin | ||
| Prof A. Long | ||
| Mr K. McAllister | The built environment …. + autism; children; fear; health and well-being; inclusivity | |
| Prof M. McEldowney | ||
| Prof. M. McGarry | Sally Faulder, Roisin Hyde, Tarla MacGabhann | |
| Dr S. McKay | Regulation; practice; resilience | Dean Blackwood |
| Dr. J. Mariotti | Energy efficient cities; socialist architecture and urban planning; urban governance; urban centralities | |
| Dr. A. Martire | Thomas McConaghie, James Hennesey, Anna Skoura | |
| Dr X. Meng | Jirong Li, Barry McCarron, Hao Wang, Xingyu Zhu | |
| Mr C. Moore | ||
| Mrs. C. Mulholland | ||
| Dr B. Murtagh | Social economics; urban regeneration; contested cities | Mark Lusby |
| Dr S. Nanukuttan | Civil infrastructure management; testing and modelling | Neil Campbell, Yujia Zheng, Douglas Thompson |
| Miss Rachel O'Grady | ||
| Prof W. Sha | Alkali activated binders/concretes; fly ash; ground granulated blast furnace slag; microstructure; durability | |
| Prof M. Soutsos | Alkali activated binders/concretes; fly ash; ground granulated blast furnace slag; microstructure; durability; high performance fibre reinforced concrete; impact and blast resistant structures; the effect of temperature on early age strength development (maturity functions) | Yuanye He |
| Mr. Niek Turner |
Architecture and media; cinema and space; computer vision and new visual research methodologies; augmented and mixed reality |
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| Dr. R. Waldron |
Research Fellows
| Clare Cleland | |
| Esmaeel Esmaeeli | |
| Sara Ferguson | Health and built environment; ageing; GIS |
| Kostas Grigoriadis | Evaluation of concrete patch repairs; non-toxic waterproofing impregnations for ordinary Portland cement (OPC) concrete; microwave curing of cement-based mortars and concretes; alkali activated binder (AAB) concrete; use of recycled aggregate in AAB and OPC concrete |
| Andrew Grounds | Ethical property development; social economy; urban regeneration |
| Jacek Kwasny | Alternative binders; lightweight materials; CO2 curing of concrete; CO2 sequestration in cementitious materials; concrete mix design and rheology |
| Teresa McGrath | Energy modelling; life cycle assessment; geopolymer concrete |
| Mark Whittaker | |
Example Projects
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Re-Use and Recycling of Decommissioned Composite Material Wind Turbine Blades |
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| Reuse and Recycling of Materials and Structures in Energy Efficient Prefabricated Elements for Building Refurbishment and Construction | http://www.re4.eu/ |
| Low Carbon Footprint Precast Concrete Products for an Energy Efficient Built Environment |
https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/geopolymer/lowcoprecon/ |
| Geopolymer Research | https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/geopolymer/ |
| Blast and Impact Resistant Concrete | |
| By-Products for Building Materials | http://bybmproject.com/ |
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