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Ranald Lawrence

Dr Ranald Lawrence
MA MPhil PhD SFHEA

Professional Activities

Conference Roles

  • Hardwick Hall: A Research Symposium, Keynote/Plenary (Darwin College, Cambridge, 2023)
  • Investigating the historic environment at Hardwick Hall, by Invitation (Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings, 2022)
  • Clean Air, Bright Light: Mackintosh’s School of Art, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022)
  • Launch Event: Mackintosh/DSB Travelling Scholarship, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, 2022)
  • Investigating the historic environment at Hardwick Hall, by Invitation (London, 2022)
  • Making the case for repair and re-use in architectural education (Tampere University, 2022)
  • Architectural History + Climate Emergency, SAHGB Annual Symposium at Heat and Light in the Little Ice Age (2021)
  • Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data Conference at The City is a System: an architectural history of an idea (University of Hertfordshire, 2020)
  • Integrating Sustainable Technologies into the Design Strategies of New Communities at Can you teach a city?, by Invitation (Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 2020)
  • Architecture and City as a Home at Learning from Precedent (Tampere University, 2019)
  • Architecture as medium (University of Cape Town, 2019)
  • Construction History Society Annual Conference at The Environmental Role of Transition Spaces in Victorian Architecture (University of Cambridge, 2018)
  • PLEA 2017 at Theory and Precedent in the Design of Sustainable Environments (Edinburgh, 2017)
  • International Conference for Sustainable Design in the Built Environment at Post Occupancy Evaluation of University Buildings in the UK (University of East London, 2017)
  • Martin Centre Research Seminar Series at The environment of the Victorian art school, Keynote/Plenary (University of Cambridge, 2015)
  • Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference at Lighting the Victorian art school (Chicago, 2015)
  • AECB (Association for Environment Conscious Building) Annual Conference at Post Occupancy Evaluation: The measurable and the unmeasurable, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (University of Sheffield, 2015)
  • CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) at Preserving historic environments: The Glasgow School of Art as a case study (University of Cambridge, 2014)
  • World Green Building Week at Design for a changing climate, Keynote/Plenary (Bennetts Associates, London, 2013)
  • The Friends of All Saints Annual Autumn Lecture at The Victorian art school, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Jesus College, Cambridge, 2012)
  • Imagining cities and alternatives in the nineteenth century (University of Cambridge, 2012)
  • Architecture and Resilience on a Human Scale (University of Sheffield, 2015)

Editorships

  • Architectural Science Review (Invited Associate editor, 2022 - present)
  • Scroope: The Cambridge Architecture Journal (Editor)

Examination Roles

  • Architecture (MPhil, 2024)
  • MSt Building History (PGT, 2024)
  • Architecture (PhD, 2024)
  • University of Liverpool, Architecture (PhD, 2024)
  • Architecture (PhD, 2022)
  • Manchester Metropolitan University, Architecture (PhD, 2021)
  • Glasgow School of Art, Architecture (PhD, 2021)
  • University of Sheffield, Architectural Studies (PhD, 2014 - 2019)

Expert Opinions

  • Peer review panel, Invited (National Research Foundation)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Peer review panel (National Research Foundation, 2019 - present)
  • Director of Technology (Sheffield School of Architecture, 2018 - 2020)

Grant Application Assessments

  • Internal Post-submission (Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC))
  • External Post-submission ()

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Assessment Officer (Department, 2020 - present)
  • REF Impact Case Study Reading Group (Department, 2020 - present)

Media Appearances

  • In a land of cold, the architecture is tested by heat, The Washington Post (Invited, November 2022)

Professional Body Memberships

  • (Associate, 2024 - present)
  • Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (Member, 2022 - present)
  • (Member, 2020 - present)
  • Construction History Society (Member, 2018 - present)
  • Higher Education Academy (Senior Fellow, 2017 - present)

Publication Reviews

  • Reviewer, Invited (Environments, Pre-publication)
  • Reviewer (The Journal of Architecture, Pre-publication)
  • Reviewer, Invited (Technology and Culture, Pre-publication)
  • Reviewer (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Pre-publication)
  • Reviewer (Energy and Buildings, Pre-publication)
  • Reviewer, Invited (Applied Energy, Pre-publication)
  • Reviewer, Invited (Building Research and Information: the international journal of research, development and demonstration, Pre-publication)