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Professional Activities

Conference Roles

  • Session III at The Ecology of Ceramics in Architectural Heritage: Cross-Cultural Dynamics across the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and Regions Beyond (Online, 2022)
  • Settled Topographies: From Gibraltar to the Ganges (School of the Arts Library, 2016)
  • Migration and cultural heritage: challenges and opportunities in the M’Hamid Oasis, Morocco at The Architecture of Migration. Clues of Transcultural Exchanges in the Mediterranean Built Environment, by Invitation (Leicester School of Architecture, Vijay Patel Building, 2019)
  • Nurturing Identities, Empowering Communities: Adaptive Reuse and Restoration at Misfat al-Abriyin, Oman at 2018 INTBAU World Congress, by Invitation (Royal Society of Arts, 2018)

Event Roles

  • SotA Research Centre Event (Talk/Lecture, Sydney Jones Library, 2024)
  • Alumni Architettura, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Dipartimento di Architettura e Territorio (dArTe), 2024)
  • Partnerships in the UK and the Middle East and North Africa: The Work of ArCHIAM at HLC MENA Network Workshop, by Invitation (Workshop, HLC Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Network, 2024)
  • Re-Inhabitation and Re-Programming of Oman’s Historic Settlements at Heritage: Re-Inhabitation and Re-Use in Shrinking Settlements, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Università degli Studi di Sassari, 2024)
  • Living Heritage and Sustainable Development: Paradigms and Research Methods, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Jadavpur University, 2024)
  • Modernity, Nationhood and the Unconscious: Abanindranath Tagore and the Garden House in Konnagar (Talk/Lecture, Victoria Memorial Hall Kolkata, 2023)
  • The Work of ArCHIAM Research Centre at ArCHIAM 10-year Anniversary Colloquium “Heritage and Development: Bridging Gaps, Shaping Futures” (Talk/Lecture, RIBA North, 2023)
  • Supporting the Integrated and Sustainable Management of Historical Oasis Landscapes in North Africa at Historical Oasis Monographs, by Invitation (Workshop, 2023)
  • Bridging the Gap: Heritage Management for Sustainable Development, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Università degli Studi di Pisa, 2023)
  • Restoration and Documentation of Architectural Heritage (Workshop, Ksar Ouled Driss, M'Hamid Oasis, Morocco, 2023)
  • Harat al-Bilad, Manah: Architecture and Social History of an Omani Oasis Settlement (Talk/Lecture, The Anglo-Omani Society, 2022)
  • SotA Research Centre Event (Talk/Lecture, School of the Arts Library, 2022)
  • SotA Early Career Researcher Impact Funding Event (Talk/Lecture, online, 2022)
  • Architectural Heritage Documentation Workshops, by Invitation (Workshop, online/Kufa, Iraq, 2021)

Expert Opinions

  • ICOMOS Advisory Process on the nomination dossier for a World Heritage Site, Invited (2024)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Reviewer, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Invited (Emerald Insight, 2024 - present)
  • Member, ICOMOS-UK Digital Technology National Committee (2024 - present)
  • Expert Member, ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Vernacular Architecture (2023 - present)
  • Scientific Committee Member, Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, Invited (INTBAU Spain, 2020 - present)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Architecture UoA Reading Panel Member (REF2029) (Department, 2023 - present)
  • Ethics Review College Member (School / Institute, 2021 - 2024)
  • Impact Lead (School / Institute, 2022 - present)
  • Digital Heritage Sub-Theme Lead (Faculty, 2019 - 2024)
  • Architecture UoA Governance Committee Member (REF2021) (Department, 2019 - 2020)

Media Appearances

  • M'Hamid Oasis Morocco, HERITALES International Heritage Film Festival (Invited, September 2022)
  • M'Hamid Oasis Morocco, Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival (Invited, February 2022)
  • UoL-XJTU Exchange Meeting was Held Online, http://uasr.xjtu.edu.cn/info/1053/2682.htm (Invited)
  • Strata Portraits of Humanity: M'Hamid Oasis in Morocco, The Archaeology Channel (February 2021)
  • M’Hamid Oasis Morocco Film Festival Finalist, Barakat Trust News (November 2019)
  • Architecture of Moroccan desert film reaches festival final, University of Liverpool News (November 2019)
  • M’Hamid Oasis Morocco, XIII. Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival (October 2019)
  • National Museum Oman: ‘Decoration and Construction of Omani Traditional Architecture’ and ‘Omani Aflaj’, Facebook (July 2019)
  • Traditional Gulf Architecture Week - Day 3: Panel 6: Interior Settlements and Architecture, Youtube (Invited, February 2019)
  • Report on 2018 World Congress, INTBAU website (December 2018)
  • INTBAU 2018, Twitter (November 2018)
  • Erasmus+ Trainees Finishing, Liverpool School of Architecture website (October 2018)
  • University of Mysore Summer School Visit, Department of Communication and Media website (July 2018)

Organisations I have been associated with

  • Infocad srl (2004 - 2010)
  • WWF Ricerche e Progetti (2004 - 2009)

Professional Body Memberships

  • ICOMOS-UK (Individual Member, 2022 - present)
  • (Ordinary member, 2004 - present)
  • (General member, 2018 - present)