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Personal Statement
Ombretta is Senior Lecturer and past President of IAPS, the International Association for People Environment Studies (www.iaps-association.org) (2008-2012; on Board of Trustees 2004-2008). She also served on the AESOP Board until 2004.
Her teaching and research are in the areas of urban design, environment behaviour studies, urban morphology and user participation in design. She holds a PhD in urban design and a Post Doc in housing and regeneration sponsored by the EU.
She is part of the Urban Design Studies Unit in the Department (www.udsu-strath.com), and is an Associate member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, and of the Higher Education Academy.
She teaches in the MSc in Urban Design, in the MArch in Advanced Architectural Design and across the Department especially in 4th year, in all options to do with urban design and the city and dissertations.
She regurarly gets nominated in the Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Awards; in 2016, she won the 'Most Innovative Teacher of teh Year".
Ombretta also runs teaching exchange modules in serveral European Countires, and has recently won a Visitng Professorship in Venice.
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Projects 2001 2020
The Urban Form Resilience Project:
Axel and Margaret Axson Johnson Foundation
1/10/17 → 30/09/20
Project: Research
Research Output 1999 2020
And now, for something completely different: good design goes beyond itself
Romice, O., 31 Oct 2019, In : Urban Design : the Quarterly Journal of the Urban Design Group. 2019, 153, 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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recording
building
town
responsibility
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Masterplanning for Change: Designing the Resilient City
Romice, O., Porta, S. & Feliciotti, A., 11 Nov 2019, (Accepted/In press) London.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Thesis
Designing for "Life between buildings" : modeling the relationship between streetscape qualities and pedestrian activity in Glasgow, Scotland
Author: Maxwell, J. A., 1 Oct 2015Supervisor: Porta, S. (Supervisor) & Romice, O. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Finding the plot : a plot-based housing development model applied to physical regeneration in Glasgow
Author: Barbour, G., 1 Jul 2016Supervisor: Romice, O. (Supervisor) & Porta, S. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Prizes
Awarded Associate Membership by experience and practice in teaching, outreach and research
Ombretta Romice (Recipient), 1 Jan 2016
Prize: Election to learned society
Activities 2000 2021
International Seminar on Urban Form
Ombretta Romice (Participant), Sergio Porta (Chair), Alessandra Feliciotti (Organiser), Martin Fleischmann (Organiser)29 Jun 2021 → 3 Jul 2021
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organiser of major conference
EAAE European Association for Architectural Education
Ombretta Romice (Keynote/plenary speaker)26 Aug 2020 → 28 Aug 2020
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences
Impacts
Spatial research for improved community engagement and rationalisation of urban resources.
Ombretta Romice (Participant), Sergio Porta (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Professional practice, training and standards, Environment and sustainability - natural world and built environment
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