Research Interests

• Cinema and the City 
• Architecture and Film 
• Architecture and (Voluntary and/or Forced) Migration 
• Minorities in the City 
• Refugees and Home 
• Architectural Space/Public Space/Film space
• Digital Mapping in the Humanities 
• Architectural Media and Representation 
• Architectural Design Education

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Current Research Opportunities

• Cloud Museum: Designing and Exploring the Virtual Museum as a New Architectural Typology in Digital Heritage, Social Sustainability, and Peace-building

Public outreach & key achievements

• CACity - Cinema and Architecture in the City Collaborative Research Group

• Walled Cities film seasons at Queen’s Film Theatre since 2017

  See, for instance: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1135937098228350976

  Or: https://queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/Mickybo-Me

Research students

Cliona Brady (architecture)

Working title: Permeable Boundaries: Architecture of the Psyche in Cinematic Spaces

Aaron Guthrie (film studies)

Working title: Keeping it Real: Non-fiction film and the shaping of Ireland’s capital city 1922-2022

Alumni: Where are they now

Didem Gunes Yilmaz – Head of Architecture, Bursa Technical University

Thesis: “Adaptation to Rural Transformation: A Place-based Investigation into Post-earthquake Permanent Housing Projects in Eastern Turkey”

Aisling Shannon Rusk– Belfast-based practicing architect

Thesis: “Mouthpieces of the Limit: Liminal Spatial Praxis in Divided and Contested Contexts”

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