About

I am an architect and behavioural science researcher working at the intersection of architecture and environmental psychology. My work explores how spatial environments shape human experience, influence attention, stress, belonging, wellbeing, learning and performance. With a background that combines architectural practice with psychological research, I tend to read buildings through more than one lens at once; as designed systems, aesthetic experiences, functional objects, social settings, sensory landscapes, and conditions that structure behaviour. I am interested in how places look and perform, and in how they are inhabited, interpreted, adapted and remembered. 

In practice, I am involved with design leadership, project delivery and applied research, including human-centred design, post-occupancy evaluation, and evidence-informed design strategy. I use behavioural science methods alongside participatory design approaches and literature review to understand how people experience the built environment and support design decision-making. A central part of my work is translation. I often investigate how research can inform practice without reducing design to metrics alone, and how psychological evidence can become useful for designers without becoming simplistic. I see evidence-informed design as a way of making assumptions clearer, testing ideas more carefully, and creating a stronger dialogue between data, context, lived experience and design judgement. 

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Alongside practice, I contribute to specialist communities through teaching, writing, research collaborations and public speaking. Across these different strands, my focus is to connect knowledge about people with the design of places, and to explore how architecture can respond more intelligently to human experience. As part of this contribution I run ArchPsych.co.uk, an architectural psychology platform for spatial designers and people-environment researchers.