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Programme:

Architecture - PhD/MPhil/MSc by Research

Start date:

01/09/2018

Mode of study:

Full time

Biography

Negar is an architect and a consultant in spatial analysis with a Master of Science in Spatial Design; Architecture and Cities from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Currently, she is completing her PhD in Architecture while teaching at the University of Edinburgh. Negar is passionate about promoting people’s wellbeing through architecture and urban design and her ongoing research interests focus on the correlation between happiness and spatial design. Her work has been exhibited in the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) 2017 (in collaboration) and at the UCL Doctoral School exhibition in London as The Best Hundred Research Images of 2018. She was awarded multiple grants for her research; including Social Responsibility and Sustainability Award (UoE SRS) 2020, IAD Action Fund (Institute of Academic Development) 2019, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding award for the FoSS 2019, and Festival of Creative Learning (FCL 2019) Award. In 2020, as a Young Women Lead (YWCA @youngwomenscot) committee member she worked on an equal rights and inclusion report with The Scottish Parliament (@ScotParl); and also received the Clinton Global Initiative recognition of Commitment to Action (CGI U). When she isn’t working, you’ll find Negar reading Persian Poetry or doing origami. That doesn’t tell you much, right? You’ll find more here: www.linkedin.com/in/negar-ebrahimi

Teaching

Architectural Theory at University of Edinburgh since 2019

AcademiaOne (UCL startup)

Guest lecturer at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale for master students in architecture for the global architectural history (2021)