Mark Hammond Email & Phone Number

Manchester, Gb

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

I am currently Deputy Research Lead for Manchester School of Architecture and teach design studio on the M.Arch course at MSA as M.Arch2 lead for the & atelier.I am currently principal investigator on the Co-Creating Age-Friendly Social Housing programme (£311k, Dunhill Medical Trust), a 30-month participatory action research programme exploring new models of social housing in response to an ageing population. Developed in collaboration between MMU, University of Manchester, GMCA and three Greater Manchester housing associations.Previous teaching roles:Deputy Programme Leader, Master of Architecture (2023-24)Unit Leader - Studio 1/2/3, Master of Architecture (2021-2023)Teacher on Dissertation, Professional Studies 1/2, Research Methods Workshop, MSA Live modules on the Master of Architecture programmeAs a researcher, I have been an investigator on the following research projects:Principal Investigator. Co-creating Age-Friendly Social Housing (Dunhill Medical Trust, 2022-2025)Impact Case Study Co-Lead 'Design for Life' (REF2021, and in-progress for planned REF2029 submission)Joint PI (w/ Stefan White). North Manchester Healthy Ageing Neighbourhood (MFT and Brentwood, 2022-2023)Co-I. Rightsizing and Rightplace projects (Centre for Ageing Better, 2019-2022)Co-I. Age-Friendly Northern Gateway/Victoria North (FEC and Manchester City Council, 2019-2021)

For the 'Manchester Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods' project, part of the Big Lottery 'Ageing Better' programme. MAFN was a participatory design research programme to establish four innovative age-friendly neighbourhood initiatives across Manchester, working with over 1000 older people in the design and delivery of over 100 local projects. The project led to over £300,000 of investment in resident led and designed age-friendly initiatives across Manchester

In 2018 I was seconded to GMCA to work in the GM Ageing Hub team, where I helped to establish the ‘Housing, Planning and Ageing’ workstream and associated research-led policy initiatives. Outcomes of this work included establishing a cross-departmental working group, developing two policy-focused research projects, contributing to regional strategy including the ‘GM Housing Strategy’ and ‘Framework for Age-Friendly Homes in Greater Manchester 2021-24’, and authoring a practitioner guide about ageing and urban design: ‘A Design for Life: Urban Strategies for the Age-Friendly City’.

While undertaking my PhD, I was a research assistant on two smaller research projects, both developed with Manchester City Council. 'Cheetham Hill Urban Living Labs' and 'The Life of the City' both used mapping, surveys and focus groups to understand the different experiences of older people across diverse urban locations, and suggested how policy and strategy might better support them to age in place.

Developed with University of Manchester, Southway Housing Trust and Age-Friendly Manchester (Manchester City Council), the Age-Friendly Old Moat project developed a new model for community-based action planning around issues of urban ageing, based on the WHO Age-Friendly Cities approach. The project has led to significant and ongoing investment in Age-Friendly housing/services in Old Moat, and the model has been adopted as part of Greater Manchester's Ageing in Place programmes ever since.

At PLACED I developed and ran a series of interactive architecture workshops with secondary school children across the North West, with the aim of broadening participation in architecture/architectural education.

At De Montfort University I worked on the 'Face Your Elephant' research project within the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development. This project created exhibitions at music festivals to engage young people in discussion about climate change, sharing research from within the department with the wider public.

As a Part One architectural assistant, I worked on a series of residential schemes for private and social clients, including extra-care housing.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Architecture

Activities and Societies: Exploring the role of the architect in older people's cohousing through a collaborative design research approach

Pgcert, Learning And Teaching In Higher Education, Distinction

B(Arch) Architecture

Landscape Architecture