Our Students

Meet the researchers driving the future of healthier places. Our doctoral students come from a range of disciplines, bringing diverse perspectives, expertise and ideas to the AD[A]PT community. Discover their research interests, backgrounds and the projects shaping healthier people and the planet.

Cohort 1

Soham De

Project Title: Health Net Gain: A Generative AI Approach to Predicting Healthy Settlements through the Integration of Blue-Green-Movement Networks.

Oxford Brookes University
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Alice Barnes

Project Title: Can the use of urban morphological analysis in design codes raise the quality of design in the Development Management process and address the lack of design knowledge in Local Planning Authorities?

Royal Town Planning Institute Collaborative Doctoral Award

Oxford Brookes University
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Cardiff University

Aslıhan Yılmazer

Project Title: Designing with Toxic Heritage: A Multi-Value Framework for Contamination-Aware Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Sites.

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Cardiff University

Yunseo Joung

Project Title:Cold, Damp and Governance: The Persistence of Unhealthy Conditions in Wales’s Pre-1919 Housing.

Chartered Institute of Housing - Cymru Collaborative Doctoral Award

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Falmouth University

Olivia Aspinall

Project Title: Designing Healthy Places Through Regional Biomaterial Development in the South West of England

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Falmouth University

Francesca Rausa Montrasio

Project Title: Co-Building with Care: how can production relations on the building side be a catalyst for social change?

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