Recent news and activities
Research Methods Festival
The Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment’s Research Methods Festival took place on Friday 6th March 2020 in the Abercrombie building.
This year’s Research Student conference in TDE took a different direction from the usual format to focus on celebrating and sharing research methods and methodologies. At the request of students it was also open to non-student researchers as a way of linking students to ongoing research and applied methods. Presentations took the form of papers, performances and posters and the day sought, as Dr Tim Jones said, to remind us of the ‘joy of doing research’.
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Conference Proceedings 2019 Published
The proceedings from the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment 2019 Research Student Conference have been published.
In the introduction to the conference proceedings, Dr Sue Brownill (Chair of the Doctoral Training Programme) noted that "the contributions highlight the excellent and varied research being carried out by our students across a range of disciplines including - Architecture, Arts, Built Environment, Computing and Engineering."
The conference and proceedings were organised by a group of research students and launched at the DTP Social Lunch on 8 October 2019.
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Research Student Conference
16 May 2019
PhD students presented their research, displayed posters and gave performances. The event included participants from the School of Engineering, Computing & Mathematics, School of Arts, School of Architecture and School of Built Environment.
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The DTP goes to Modern Art Oxford
On Wednesday 6 February 2019 students went to see the ‘Fantastic Cities’ Exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. The exhibition uses film, video and other methods to portray urban differences, utopias and experiences. The visit sparked a lively debate about the use of different methods to capture urban life over tea and cakes.
Conference Proceedings Published
Papers from last year’s research Student Conference have now been published and can be accessed here.
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Introduction to Urban Sketching Workshop: Ink and Watercolour
Wednesday 27 June 2018, 9.00am
AB101B, Abercrombie Building, Headington Campus
Have you always wanted to draw a sketch? Discover how easy is to capture your favorite urban or landscape scenery by joining Isabel Zozaya’s session about urban sketching.
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Participative Methodologies Workshop
Wednesday 20 June 2018, 13.00
C216, Clerici Building, Headington Campus
This workshop introduced researchers to the toolset of participative methodologies developed by Tesserae. Tesserae is a platform to connect critical multidisciplinary research, education, art, communication and project development in the urban, territorial and social fields.
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Research Student Conference 2018
Thursday 17 May 2018, 10.00am
JHB205 - JHB208, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus
The conference was part of the Faculty’s Doctoral Training Programme (DTP) and was organised by students in engineering, computing and architecture (Edward Hopkins, Mireya Munoz Balbontin and Serkan Gunay), a former arts research student (Aya Kasai) as well as the DTP Chair (Dr Sue Brownill) and the Research Administrator (Allison Stevens).
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NEWS: Updated Moodle Site
Powerpoints and other material from the DTP sessions are on Moodle, the University’s virtual learning platform. The site is being constantly added to to build up a one-stop-shop for research students. All students have access, so don’t forget to log on regularly.
Virtual gateway for students
Doing qualitative research
Wednesday 13 February, 1.30–4pm
CLC 2.11, Clerici Building, Heading Campus
Visiting students
Stine Nielsen
School of Architecture
Visiting from: Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark
Duration of research visit: 7 September - 7 November 2020
Research project: Architectural Sustainability as a Cultural Practice
Supervised by: Prof Marcel Vellinga
Urška Bračko
School of Arts, Publishing
3 April 2019 - 31 May 2019
Supervisor: Dr Angus Phillips
Merham Keleg
School of the Built Environment
Visiting from: Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Duration of research visit: February 2018 - February 2020
Research project: Place making as an approach for attaining multifunctional green infrastructure in the greater Cairo region
Supervised by: Prof. Georgia Butina Watson
Verena Jung
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
Research project: Real-time energy optimisation for an electric motorsport vehicle
Duration of research visit: August - September 2019
Supervisor: Professor Denise Morrey
Maria Burgos
School of Architecture
Visiting from: San Pablo C.E.U. University, Spain
Duration of research visit: September - November 2019
Supervisor: Dr Marcel Vellinga
Dalila Ghodbane
School of Architecture
Visiting from: Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, University of Italian Switzerland
Research project: Thermal knowledge in and around domestic architecture in Cairo
Duration of research visit: November 2019 - June 2020
Supervisor: Dr Marcel Vellinga
Beste Ozyurt
School of the Built Environment
Research project: Risk information systems and data mining for better risk-informed decisions in construction companies
Duration of research visit: September 2019 - May 2020
Supervisor: Professor Joe Tah