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Architecture, community and climate change

Our research is focused on social housing, community consultation and the design of the public realm.

We work in partnership with local communities and listen to their thoughts about the future of their towns and cities to create sustainable, solutions-based and environmentally responsible design.

Fully Funded PhD Studentship

The York School of Architecture (YSA) invites applications for a fully funded PhD studentship as part of the project “Whole-building life cycle carbon and cost assessments of modular constructions: data, methodologies and evidence for support” funded by the National Research Council of Canada.

  • Start date: January 2026
  • Application Deadline: Sunday 07 December 2025, 12 noon (UK time)
  • Interviews: To be confirmed, likely in the w/c 8th December 2025
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Sustainable housing

Professor Lorraine Farrelly is part of RE-DWELL, a Marie Curie network of PhD students and researchers delivering sustainable housing across the EU.

York unveiled

Our new project, York - unveiling layers of significance, will explore and interpret York's significance via an architectural exploration of the city's identity.

Projects and books

Featured projects

Community consultation

The AHRC-funded project Community Consultation for Quality of Life worked with local communities. The project outputs included:

From this research we are developing new partnerships to continue to work with communities to co-design buildings, places and spaces.

The Harris Museum

A selection of projects that were a collaboration between Ehab Kamel and the Harris Museum:

  • Streets of Change: Beattie's Preston and Beyond
  • Re-imagining The Harris, which included several stages of collaboration, such as:
    • Truth Booth (a public survey)
    • Connecting The Harris (an educational research by Design project)
    • City Memory + Museum (research workshops and summer school)
Recent books

A selection of books and chapters based on Dr Ehab Kamel's research on design for users' wellbeing: