Dr Homeira Shayesteh

Dr Homeira Shayesteh is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture & BIM at Middlesex University. She received her PhD from Bartlett UCL where she also worked as post-doctoral researcher and design tutor until 2017. She was part of the delivery team of Digital Built Britain contributing to the UK government construction strategy. She held an EPSRC post-doctoral Knowledge Exchange Associate grant with Autodesk looking into BIM and Digital Twin data flow across the construction life cycle. 

She trained as an architect and have years of experience in applied research and practice in the built environment. That includes working with Space Syntax Limited as a Senior Design Consultant for seven years, through which she specialised in spatial analysis and observational/surveys of buildings and urban spaces in relation to their environmental performances and from users’ perspective.

Her research interest lies in applied data-driven approaches to sustainable, regenerative, and inclusive architecture/urbanism and from the users' point of view in response to global societal challenges and UNSDGs. She has many publications in peered reviewed journals and presented in prestigious conferences such as CISBAT, Space Syntax, CIB, SEEDS, COBEE, UK Higher Education Conference and Advance HE. 

In addition to research on sustainable and inclusive built environment,  she is passionate about pedagogic research and integrating digital innovations and sustainability into curriculum through co-design. She initiated embedding the UNSDGs on programme level at Middlesex University in 2021. She recently contributed to Engineering Professional Council's Sustainability Toolkit which is an open-access source with national and global impact. She was Architectural Lead for MDX Living Pavilion project which was runner up for Guardian Education Award in the category of Teaching and Learning Excellence in 2020 and finalist in London Sustainable Construction award in 2020. 

Homeira is the Pedagogic Research Group Lead for Faculty of Science and Technology in Middlesex University and chairing the UNSDG in Curriculum teaching group. She is member of University's Environmental Steering Group and Barnet Built Environment Skills Steering Group.