PhD Students

Martin Fleischmann

Martin Fleischmann

PhD student

Martin appeared at UDSU first as an Erasmus+ student in 2015 and stayed for one semester. After another semester spent as an exchange student in Seoul, South Korea, still as a student of Czech Technical University in Prague, he started MSc in Urban Design at the University of Strathclyde in 2016. He later graduated with distinction and started his PhD in October 2017.

His research focuses on quantitative analysis of urban form, developing a measuring framework to enhance the possibilities to ‘read the city’ via measuring its characteristics. He is aiming to make the steps towards the development of The Urban Atlas, an atlas of urban tissues seen through the perspective of the evolution of urban form.

Zeynep Gur Gunbeyaz

Zeynep Gur Gunbeyaz

Zeynep started her PhD with UDSU in early October of 2018. She graduated Urban and Regional Planning and Architecture with Double Major Programme  from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.  During the education and right after graduating she worked in several Architectural design offices as Architect in Istanbul for almost 2 years. After moved to Glasgow, she took the opportunity for being a part of UDSU at the University of Strathclyde.

Zeynep’s research is be focusing on different factors that affect the resilience of residential typologies and how to develop a framework to support the decision making processes in order to generate resilient urban form.

Seabo Morobolo

Seabo Morobolo

Seabo B. Morobolo joined the UDSU in October 2018 as a PhD student after 10 years of being a lecturer at the University of Botswana. Her research interest is the relationship between culture, people and space within the built environment (the reciprocal interplay and interdependence of these three within the built landscape). She holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture (Bachelor of Architecture) and a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning, both from Curtin University, Australia. Research interests also include architectural theory and criticism; place and identity; urban design histories and theories; Architecture and Urbanism; Evolution and transformation of urban form; culture-space nexus in the built environment; hence the topic of her PhD research – Culture and Space Transformation in Botswana’s urban villages.

 

The PhD research explores the urban villages’ morphological evolution and transformation as a result of introduction of new spatial design models and the impact on the culture-space nexus. Through a case study of one of the urban villages, the research explores how conflicting rationalities of space organisation which currently exist – indigenous model and modernist model– impact on the culture and identity of the community. It examines how culture has been affected, whether and how it has changed – transformed, conformed or resisted new models; as well as how these manifest spatially as physical responses in the village morphology.

Haider Jasim Essa Al-Saaidy

Haider Jasim Essa Al-Saaidy

PhD student

Haider started his PhD with UDSU in October of 2014. This PhD research forms part of a longer progression in architectural study that started with my B.Sc. and then moved to the M.Sc. at the Department of Architectural Engineering at the University of Technology, Baghdad – Iraq. The Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR) that awarded him a full PhD scholarship in order to study at the University of Strathclyde. The PhD research explores how the form of historical cities and their enduring social and economic success are linked at the scale where urban life occurs, namely that of the street and the neighbourhood. This thesis observes the relationship between urban form and urban life in the city of Baghdad, Iraq, by investigating four central neighbourhoods, which represent different historical periods in the development of the city.