Please contact our PGR Area Coordinator Christoph Lueder and/or one of our PhD supervisors with your proposal for a doctoral research project. If you would like to have an informal conversation first, please send a short outline statement, or get in touch with your queries at c.lueder@kingston.ac.uk.

Guidance on writing a PhD research proposal is available here.

Here is an overview over PhD supervisors in REGISTER - the links will take you to each supervisor’s profile page with a detailed statement about their research interests, projects, publications and expertise, as well as links to the doctoral researchers they are supervising.

Professor Andrew Clancy is developing the Practice based PhD programme in Kingston and is interested in the contribution to knowledge made by the work of practitioners, and in how research methodologies can be used to support the critical formation of architects.

Dr Heba Elsharkawy is an expert in the area of environmental design and sustainability. She has been Principal Investigator to a British Council Newton Institutional Links project and currently is PI to a British Council Towards Net Zero Carbon Campuses for Climate Change Mitigation and Resilience.

Tom Coward is a Practice based researcher, his interests include considering the reciprocal roles of participation and conversation in both the lived production and the experiential realisation of architecture.

Dr Christoph Lueder researches on representation and co-production of architectural space, irregular urbanisation, participatory and co-operative urbanism. He co-leads the British Council funded project About Making and the GCRF and RIBA funded research project How to Build with Time?

Douglas Murphy examines the relationship between concepts of nature and technology in 20th century architecture, post-war housing typologies, and architecture's role in visions of the future and ideological expression.

Dr Alexandra Stara researches the hermeneutics of art, architecture and the modern museum. Her historical and philosophical investigations of architecture, its traditions, relationships with other arts and cultural role include particular interests in lens-based media and representation.

Dr Dimitris Venizelos is an architect, urban designer and geographer with research interests in cultural and political geography, urban design and development. He has previously researched at Harvard University, the National Technical University of Athens and is a Research Associate at MesArch Lab of the University of Cyprus.