Hi There! I'm Emma and I'm a climate-focused architectural designer, researcher and educator. My interests and expertise address climate regeneration through the application of nature-based solutions and circular economy principles.I have worked at Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) since 2017, culminating in over 6 years of experience in architectural research and education and 14 years in the field of architecture and urbanism. Currently, I'm a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Architecture department at QUB. In this role, I work on the EU Horizon 2020-funded project 'UPSURGE', which addresses air pollution and urban resilience through the implementation of nature-based solutions in five European demonstration sites. I help manage the co-creation engagement strategy through the design and facilitation of co-design workshops as well as the development of urban design proposals for the project. I am also a work package co-lead and co-investigator on the AHRC-funded Future Island-Island project. Our team is focused on boosting regenerative design skills and building a regenerative designer ecosystem across these islands.In a previous research project, I worked closely with commercial agri-food partners to develop a net-zero, climate-transition strategy through carbon accounting, data insight, input-output analysis, visualisation, scenario-building, road mapping, and architectural design. My PhD research applied similar methodologies to unpack and reimagine the future of supermarket shopping. In 2021, I disseminated one of the key ideas around circularity in a TEDx talk called 'Can bees help us to design sustainable supermarkets'.When I'm not researching, I teach Architecture at Queen’s University. In the 2021/2022 year, I worked within the Architecture coordination team to design and deliver the Stage 1 program.I'm also a Co-Founder of Urban Input/Output, a multi-disciplinary collective for circular economy design-research. Since setting up, we have exhibited at the Design Museum and NI Science Festival, hosted a Circular Food Campus design sprint with Atlantic TU and been invited to several lectures across Europe.Prior to transitioning into the world of architectural design, research and education, I spent three years as an Architectural Assistant (Part I & II) in a range of architectural practices in Belfast and Luxembourg.