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IAPS Board (performing its activities from Rome 2008)

 

BOARD  
Ombretta Romice, President (taking over from Gabriel Moser)
University of Strathclyde/ Department of Architecture/ 131 Rottenrow/ Glasgow/ G4 ONG/ UK
Tel: +44 141 5483006.
Contact Ombretta

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, in Urban Design and Architecture. PhD in Urban design and Environmental Psychology (1997), Post Doc on housing and regeneration sponsored by the European Union. Co-founder of the Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design Network (
www.usted-urbandesign.org/). Interests: urban design, participatory design, urban regeneration, planning.
   

Edward Edgerton Secretary
University of the West of Scotland/ School of Social Sciences/ Psychology Division/ High St. Paisley PA1 2BE / UK .
Contact Edward

Eddie is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of the West of Scotland. His research interests are primarily concerned with understanding the relationship between learning environments and the users of these environments. Recent projects have investigated the impact of new secondary school buildings on students and staff, and the role of the physical environment in parental choice of nursery schools. He has been an active member of IAPS since 2000 and was co-opted on to the Board in 2005 as Secretary. Eddie was officially elected as the Secretary of IAPS in 2006. Along with Ombretta Romice, Eddie co-organised the 4th UK Environmental Psychology conference (EPUK4) in Glasgow in 2005.

   
Birgitta Gatersleben Membership Affairs, Iaps mailing list
Department of Psychology/ School of Human Science/ University of Surrey
Guildford/ Surrey GU2 7XH/ UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1483 689306/ Fax: +44 (0)1483 689553.
Contact Birgitta
   
Karine Weiss Treasurer.
Lab. de Psych. Environnementale CNRS ESA 8069 / Université René Descartes-Paris V / Institut de Psychologie / 71-75 avenue Edouard Vaillant / F-92100 Boulogne-Billancourt / France
Tel: +33 1 55205999.
Contact Karine
   
Kevin Thwaites Website Developer/ (taking over from Ombretta Romice)
Department of Landscape/ University of Sheffield/ Arts Tower/ Western Bank/ Sheffield S11 9EQ
T. 0114 2220620.
Contact Kevin

Kevin Thwaites teaches and researches urban design and landscape architecture at the University of Sheffield, UK. Main interests: philosophy and theory of outdoor place making, particularly the relationship between the experience of people and its spatial expression in the daily encountered outdoors. Co-founder of Experiential Landscape (www.elp:rdu.com) and Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design (www.usted-urbandesign.org). Current research with Ian Simkins and Alice Mathers involves developing practical design codes and analytical methodologies to help environmental design professionals and community agencies make socially beneficial and experientially rich urban outdoor places. With Terry Hartig, Kevin co-convenes the Restorative Environments network.
   

Peter Kellet Promotions
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape/Daysh Building/ Newcastle University/ Newcastle upon Tyne/ NE1 7RU
Tel: +44 141 222 6023
. Contact Peter

   

Elena Saoutkina Student Liaison
Departamento de Psicologia Social e das Organizações/ Av. Forças Armadas/
1649-026 Lisboa
Contact Elena

   

Aleya Abdel-Hadi Networks Co-ordinator
Prof. Emeritus of Interior Architecture/ Fine Arts, Cairo, Helwan University
Mohamed Thakeb street/ Zamalek/ Cairo/ Egypt
Tel.: +2 02 8500518/ telefax: +2 02 8500480/ mobile: +2 012 2425474
. Contact Aleya

Aleya Abdel-Hadi (born Alexandria, 1943) is Professor Emeritus of Interior Design at the Faculty of Fine-Arts, Cairo, Helwan University. Served (2001-2003) as Vice-Dean for Post Graduate Studies and Research at Fine Arts, Cairo; (1998-2000) Dean of College of Architecture and Arts at the University of Petra, Amman, Jordan; (1995-1998) Head of Interior Design Department, Univ. of Petra, Amman, Jordan.
Member of IAPS (51) since 1981, her research interest is on Socio-Spatial Organization: Housing. Between 1976 and 1993, she completed research on the assessment of urban residential areas in and around Cairo with several institutions including the National Centre for Social and Criminological Research (Cairo) and the Technical University of Berlin. She has been an active member of a Housing Seminar organized by the Centre d' Etudes et de Documentation Juridique et Sociale (CEDEJ) with a group of architects and planners. Currently, she is Advisor of Academic Researches on Care Centers for the Mentally Retarded, and on the Gated Communities in Egypt. She is also the organizer of IAPS 19th International Conference 2006, Alexandria, Egypt with Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

   
Giuseppe Carrus Conference Advisor
Università Roma Tre/ Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione/ Dipartimento di Studi dei Processi Formativi, Culturali e Interculturali nella Società Contemporanea/ Via del Castro Pretorio 20, 00185 Rome - Italy
T: +39-06-44703450.
Contact Giuseppe
   
Hartmut Gunther Fundraising, Hall of Fame selector
Universidade de Brasilia/ Instituto de Psicologia.
Contact Hartmut
   
Riklef Rambow Bibliography co-ordinator (taking over from Florian Kaiser)
Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus / Fakultät 2 Architektur Bauingenieurwesen Stadt- und Regionalplanung / Gastprofessur Architekturvermittlung / Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 4 / D-03046 Cottbus
T: + 49 355 693080
. Contact Riklef

Born 1964 in Wiesbaden/Germany. Diploma in Psychology from University of Bielefeld/Germany. 1992-2001: Assistant Professor for Educational Psychology at the Universities of Frankfurt/Main and Muenster. 1999 PhD in Psychology with a dissertation on "Expert-Layperson-Communication in Architecture". 2001-2008: Assistant Professor for Theory of Architecture
at the Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus. Since 2008 Guest
Professor for Communication of Architecture at BTU Cottbus.
   
Eulogio Real Deus Bulletin Editor (taking over from Ricardo Garcia Mira)
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela/ Spain.
Contact Eulogio

 

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