{"id":57,"date":"2017-12-12T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:01:17","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1291\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/06\/20241016_131637-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Members of Urban Living Research Group share a meal outside the Reading School of Architecture\" width=\"377\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/06\/20241016_131637-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/06\/20241016_131637-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/06\/20241016_131637-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/06\/20241016_131637-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/06\/20241016_131637-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Current Academic Staff<\/h2>\n<p>Angeliki Sakellariou \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/?page_id=737&amp;preview=true\">Amy Brookes (formerly Butt)\u00a0<\/a>\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/architecture\/staff\/cristina-cerulli\">Cristina Cerulli\u00a0<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/flewis\/\">Oliver Froome-Lewis<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/?page_id=890&amp;preview=true\">Stephen Gage<\/a> \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/architecture\/staff\/john-harding\"> John Harding<\/a> \/ Laura Humphreys \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/people\/phd\/emohareb\/\">Eugene Mohareb <\/a>\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/people\/mpeters\/\">Michael Peters\u00a0<\/a>\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/people\/p-plaza\">Penelope Plaza<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/architecture\/staff\/sayan-skandarajah\">Sayan Skandarajah<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/architecture\/staff\/michelle-tomlinson\">Michelle Tomlinson<\/a> \/\u00a0Vsevolod Kondratiev-Popov<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Teaching Fellows and Research Staff\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Dr Unis Nisa \/\u00a0Dr Ruchit Purgohit<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Visiting Professors<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/people\/b-allies\">Bob Allies<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>PhD Researchers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/omaima-alabbasi\/\">Omaima Alabbasi<\/a> \/ Ali Alameer \/ Majid Al Jahdhami \/ Rahaf Al Qutub \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/chloe-barrow\/\">Chloe Barrow\u00a0<\/a>\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/architecture\/staff\/jane-elizabeth-bennett\">Jane Elisabeth Bennet<\/a> \/ Armel Bonifacio \/\u00a0Joey De Vera \/\u00a0Rachel Gros \/ Mary Kaaria \/\u00a0Vasilis Kazakos \/\u00a0Yiqing Liu \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/xiaowei-lyu\/\">Xiaowei Lyu<\/a> \/\u00a0Raza Naqvi \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/people\/lpsaila\">Luke Psaila \/ <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/architecture\/staff\/leonardo-ricaurte-ospina\">Leonardo Ricaurte-Ospina<\/a> \/ Xiaoxiong Xie \/\u00a0David Yu<\/p>\n<p><strong>We welcome new PhD applications i<\/strong>n the area of Urban Living. Please take a look at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/CME\/cme-phd-programmes\/cme-phd-opportunities.aspx\">School of Built Environment<\/a> webpage for further details about current opportunities and how to apply.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Former PhD Students<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/people\/phd\/flewis\/\">Oliver Froome-Lewis<\/a> \/ Philip Graham \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/people\/p-taylor\/\"> Piers Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about the people involved in the Urban Living group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":959,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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