I am Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory, and Associate Director of Research, and I co-lead the MArch Thesis module in the graduate MArch RIBA (II). I also supervise MPhil/PhD Architectural Design and Architectural History and Theory students, and contribute to the Masters in Architectural History degree. In both my teaching and my research I especially focus on how aesthetic, material, technological, biopolitical and ecological theories inform contemporary architectural thinking and practice. 

In my most recent book, Architectural Relational Ecologies (ed., Routledge 2013), I expand discussions of architectural sustainability to consider political and philosophical ideas about sex, biology and nature. A second edited collection, Poetic Biopolitics (forthcoming IB Tauris) explores links between concepts of life (bios/zoe) and spatial practices in architecture, the visual arts and the humanities. I am also currently conducting research into 'equalities of wellbeing and housing', with Dr Beth Lord (Philosophy, University of Aberdeen) for an AHRC Research Grant (£276,000; 2013-16): http://equalitiesofwellbeing.wordpress.com/.  

I regularly give public talks and conferences, including: KTH Stockholm, University of Technology, Sydney; TU Delft; University of Tasmania, Launceston; Tongji University, Shanghai; Hofstra University, USA; University of Dundee; Goldsmiths College, London; Royal Academy, London; Tate Britain; The Hayward, Serpentine and Whitechapel Galleries, London. As External Examiner I have been appointed to: BA Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art, University of the Arts, London (2006-10), and examined PhDs for UCL, TU Delft, RMIT, UCL, Goldsmiths University, and Edinburgh University. In 2013 I was a member of the RIBA Presidents Medals Dissertation Judging Panel.