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Your City Your Voice BelfastLet's introduce you to the team
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Saul Golden (Belfast Lead)
Dr Saul M Golden works in Ulster University and is Lead for Your City Your Voice Belfast, which is part of the UK-wide Community Consultation for Quality of Life Project.
Anna Skoura (Community Partnerships Specialist)
Anna works for Ulster University and liaises with the many communities and stakeholders our project would like to partner with.
Ruchit Purohit (Research Assistant, Reading)
Ruchit is the Research Assistant overseeing the research project across the four nations, and will be joining the Cardiff team in May.
His role is to make sure the data management is going as smooth as possible.
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Flora Samuel (Principal Investigator)
Flora is the lead principal of the CCQoL Project across the UK; England (Reading), Wales (Cardiff), Scotland (Edinburgh) and Northern Ireland (Belfast).
Flora is a Professor at the University of Reading. She was the first RIBA Vice President for Research and is lead author of the Social Value Toolkit for Architects (RIBA, 2020) and an industry expert on social value.
Stephanie Edwards (Project Partner)
Stephanie Edwards is an Architect, Urbanist and Cofounder of Urban Symbiotics – an insight and research led multi-disciplinary design practice that focuses on the user experience to innovate architecture, masterplanning and the public realm. She continues to focus on delivering social value through a variety of project types and scales to facilitate the building of inclusive, equitable and progressive communities.
Ulster University Belfast
The Belfast team are based in the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Ulster University Belfast.
University of Reading
The project is based at the University of Reading
Quality of Life Foundation (Project Partner)
The Quality of Life Foundation is addressing the changes that can be made across the development industry to ensure that homes are acquired, planned, constructed, and managed to actively provide a better quality of life for everyone.Please describe what this organisation will be doing on the project.
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Commonplace
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