Profile

Professional affiliations

  • Member of AHRC Peer Review College (2022 to present)
  • Member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) (2012 to present)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2011 to present)
  • Member of the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) (2005 to present)
  • Member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) (2005 to present)

Awards

  • Winner of the 2026 Microgeo Calendar Contest. The 3D laser scanning conducted for the Nahrein Network–funded project “Climate Change, Old Basra Traditional Architecture, and Community Socio-Environmental Resilience” was selected by public vote as one of the winners of the 2026 Microgeo Calendar Contest (2025)
  • The “Extra Mile” (Academic Staff) award for the School of Architecture, Building & Civil Engineering, Loughborough University (2024)
  • Recipient of the Aurora Leadership Development Programme/Award (2019)
  • University of Salford, School of the Built Environment staff award for Performing to an Exceptional Level of Engagement with Industry (2018)
  • University of Salford, Nominated for the Women’s Voice awards (2018) _ Category: Rising Star

Selected external activities

  • Invited speaker, Research Capacity Building in Kurdistan Regional Government, and Iraq, Erbil, Iraq (June 2024)
  • Member of the Organizing Committee for the forthcoming Conference,Museum Environments: Challenges and Opportunities, 14-15 December 2021, Cairo, Egypt, the End event of the MOVE/AHRC funded project
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Children’s Geographies (2023)
  • Establishing Member of the ICOMOS-UK Digital Technology Committee (2021)
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Historical Geography (2021)
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Building Research & Information (2019)
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Future Cities and Environment (2018)
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society (2018)
  • Reviewer for the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability (2017_Present)
  • Reviewer for the Passive and Low Energy Architecture 2018 Conference (PLEA): Smart & Healthy Within 2-Degree 10-12 December 2018, Hong Kong
  • Reviewer for the Second International Conference for Sustainable Design of the Built Environment: Research in Practice (SDBE) at the Crystal, London, 12th -13th September 2018
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Urban Technology (JUT) (2016-Present)
  • Reviewer for the Passive and Low Energy Architecture 2017 Conference (PLEA): Design to Edinburgh. 3rd -5th July 2017
  • Reviewer for the Passive and Low Energy Architecture 2016 Conference (PLEA): Cities, Buildings, People _Towards Regenerative Environments, organised by Cal Poly Pomona, the University of Southern California and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. July 11th-13th, 2016, Los Angeles
  • Reviewer for the CIBSE Technical Symposium 2016: Integration for whole life building 14th-15th April 2016, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh
  • Reviewer for the Eighth International Conference of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD) 2016, SOAS University of London – London
  • Reviewer for the CIBSE Technical Symposium 2015: Simple buildings, better buildings? Delivering performance through engineered 16th-17th April, University College London
  • Reviewer for the CIBSE Technical Symposium 2014: Moving to a New World of Building Systems 3rd -4th April, Dublin
  • Reviewer for the CIBSE Technical Symposium 2013: Delivering buildings that are truly fit for 11th -12th April 2013, Liverpool
  • Reviewer for the CIBSE ASHRAE Technical Symposium 2012: Buildings Systems and Services for the 21st April 18th -19th, Imperial College London
  • Grant Application Referee for the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), Iraq Fellowship Programme, London South Bank University (2010 -Present)
  • Book Proposal Referee: Earthscan Publications Ltd, London (2010)
  • Keynote speaker, Nordic conference on future hospital buildings – Milliards of investment and as much care for the money as possible. Stockholm, Sweden, 2nd -3rd December 2009
  • Keynote speaker, The Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) Regional Conference, “Making A Difference”, Northern Ireland, 2008

Key collaborators

My research and enterprise activities are conducted with a range of academic and stakeholder partners, including:

  • Universities: University College London  (UCL), University of Salford, University of Portsmouth, Cambridge University, Ulster University, Ain Shams University (Egypt), Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Turkey), University of Salerno (Italy), and University of Basrah (Iraq)
  • Stakeholders: Seddon Construction Ltd and Kingsley Healthcare Group
  • Museums and Heritage organisations: Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Victoria and Albert, National Trust, and UNESCO Iraq