Board
 Ombretta Romice |
Ombretta Romice, President Tel: +44 141 5483006. 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 |
Edward Edgerton, Secretary University of the West of Scotland/ School of Social Sciences/ Psychology Division/ High St. Paisley PA1 2BE / UK .Contact EdwardEddie is a senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of the West of Scotland. He has been an active member of IAPS since 2000 and has been secretary since 2005. His research interests are primarily concerned with understanding the relationship between ‘institutional’ 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 improving the quality of life for dementia sufferers. Along with Ombretta Romice, Eddie co-organised the 4th UK Environmental Psychology conference (EPUK4) in 2005 and is co-organiser for IAPS22 in Glasgow in 2012. |
 Karine Weiss |
Karine Weiss TreasurerLab. 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 |
Kevin Thwaites Department of Landscape/ University of Sheffield/ Arts Tower/ Western Bank/ Sheffield S11 9EQ T. 0114 2220620.Contact KevinKevin 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. |
 Petra Schweizer-Ries |
Prof. Dr. Petra Schweizer-Ries Petra Schweizer-Ries is a social and behavioural scientist who has been working on renewable energy technologies since 1992. She worked with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) from 1992 until 2002, where she founded an interdisciplinary work group on rural electrification. Since 2002 she has been a Junior Professor for Environmental Psychology at the University of Magdeburg. There, she leads a research group working on different social aspects of energy distribution and introduction in rural and grid-connected areas. She currently is affiliated with the chair for Sustainable Development at the Universität des Saarlandes. |
 Ian Simkins
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Ian Simkins Since graduating from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1999 my professional career has been complimented by research and teaching in both Further Education (2004 – 2007), and in Higher Education (since 2000). PhD research developed methodology for revealing spatial aspects of the place experience of primary school aged children in ways relevant to landscape design. I am co-founder of Experiential Landscape, with colleague Dr Kevin Thwaites. Experiential Landscape co-ordinates and employs a person-centred process generating socially sustainable solutions that benefit how people relate to each other and the outdoor settings they routinely use. Since its foundation in 2003, I have also been an active member of the “core team” of UStED (Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design) an International network of researcher’s educationalists and practitioners, gathering, updating, co-ordinating and disseminating tools of Sustainable Urban Design, with special emphasis on ‘public space’ www.ustedurbandesign.org). I am a member of the Executive Management Board of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth, at the University of Sheffield. The centre is a multi-disciplinary organisation with international partners to create collaborative research on cross-cultural issues. email: ian.simkins@elprdu.com |
 Aleya Abdel-Hadi |
Aleya Abdel-Hadi Networks Co-ordinatorProf. 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 Aleyaleya 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. |
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Giuseppe Carrus University of Roma Tre – Department of Cultural and Educational Studies Centre for Interuniversity Research in Environmental Psychology (CIRPA) Rome, Italy contact Giuseppe: g.carrus@uniroma3.it |
 Hartmut Gunther |
Hartmut Gunther Fundraising, Hall of Fame selectorUniversidade de Brasilia/ Instituto de Psicologia.Contact Hartmut |
 Sigrun Kabisch |
Sigrun Kabisch Head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, Germany, and professor at the University of Leipzig. She holds a PhD in urban sociology and did her habilitation in urban geography. Her main research fields are: interdependencies between the social, built, and natural environments in urban landscapes, urban vulnerability concerning extreme weather events, quality of life in shrinking cities, urban restructuring with respect to demographic change and socio-spatial differentiation. Her work is embedded in international comparative studies |
 Clare Twigger-Ross |
Clare Twigger-Ross Since gaining her PhD in Environmental Psychology in 1994 at the University of Surrey, UK, Clare has worked in academia (University of Surrey) and the Environment Agency for England and Wales. Currently she is a technical director at Collingwood Environmental Planning Limited (www.cep.co.uk) which is a small multidisciplinary sustainability consultancy working at the research-practice interface mainly for public sector organizations (e.g UK government departments, European Environment Agency and UK local authorities) Her work is focused on the social aspects of flood risk management, social impact assessment, environmental policy and decision-making and particularly the use of social science evidence and participation processes. A current focus of interest is on developing measures of social vulnerability in the context of flooding, social impact assessment, and climate change as well as a continued interest in place and identity in the context of places threatened by environmental risks. Much of her work involves synthesizing research to support both policy and practice development |
 Corina Ilin |
Dr Corina Ilin is an Associate Professor of Environmental Psychology, Applied Social Psychology and Economical Psychology at the West University of Timisoara, Department of Psychology. She also teaches courses in the Department of Architecture of the same University. She has obtained her PhD in Psychology from the University of Lasi (Romania) in 2005. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Corunna, Spain (2005, 2006), and she is the coordinator of the Jean Monnet Grant: A Young Researchers’ view of Romanian Steps towards EU Integration: Analysing Pro-Environmental and Anti-Corruption Policies |