Heba Elsharkawy
Lecturer (MSc) (working days: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri inclusive)

Research Group: Architectural Science Group

E-Mail: ElsharkawyH@cardiff.ac.uk

Postal Address:
Welsh School of Architecture
Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff
CF10 3NB

Fax: 029 20870217

Responsibilities
Heba’s research interests are within the area of energy policy, climate change and carbon emission reduction initiatives – globally and in the UK. She is interested in exploring people’s energy consumption behaviour and lifestyles and how policy programmes could influence them. Besides, her genuine interest in teaching environmental design in the built environment has always been a major driver for various research activities she has embarked on. This also relates to her role in the architectural practice she worked for, where she was responsible for in-depth research of site and climate analysis of diverse architectural projects. She also has a considerable interest in cultural heritage sites, and sustainable communities for promoting sustainable urban development.

Research Interests
Heba is currently working on a research project in joint partnership between the University of Nottingham, Nottingham City Homes and Nottingham Energy Partnership. The project investigates how people’s energy consumption behaviour and lifestyle is being enacted through policy and regulation. This is examined in one of the Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP) schemes in Nottingham. The outcome is an examination of the likely impacts of the policy on energy consumption behaviour, together with investigating how delivering on the policy may (not) lead to a successful delivery.

Heba’s research experience expands with her participation in a number of research projects. The project she has recently participated in is the European Commission funded EDUCATE project (Environmental Design in University Curricula and Architectural Training in Europe), through the University of Nottingham as a partner. She has also been involved in the strategic urban development of villages in Egypt, a project funded by the UN-HABITAT. She has several peer-reviewed papers published and presented at remarkable conferences and congresses. She is currently in the thesis pending period of her PhD at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment in the University of Nottingham.

Teaching Profile
Heba joined the Welsh School of Architecture as a lecturer in the Architectural Science Masters programme in May 2012. She has been running workshops and drop-in sessions to support ASM students in the 60-credit Dissertation module. She is co-leading Earth and Society as a core module for ASM students and elective module for MSc Sustainable Energy & Environment. She is also co-leading Primitives as another core module for the same programme. She is tutoring in Environmental Design Practice, a specialist module in EDB course and Sustainable Building, a specialist module in TPSD course.

Heba has an intensive ten year experience in teaching, academic research, and architectural practice. She has worked as a part time lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment at Nottingham Trent University, teaching Technology and Environment in Architecture. She has been leading workshops in Architectural Research Methods for P/G students in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham 2010-2012. She has also been studio tutor in U/G Design Communication Studio in the same department 2009-2012. She has been invited as a guest lecturer in Management of Energy Supply and Use module for MSc and BEng students at the University of Nottingham. She has worked at 3 national and international HEIs in Cairo; last of which was the British University in Egypt (BUE), where she taught Environmental Design in Architecture, Building Construction, Theory of Architecture and Visual Practice. Throughout her teaching practice, she has been working in an architecture studio environment; delivering lectures and seminars, group and one-to-one tutorials, and participating in crits and review panels.