Rachel Toms Rachel Toms Areas of Expertise Public health, Regeneration, Public space Rachel champions the role of the built environment in supporting health. A qualified landscape architect, she has designed streets and public spaces in the UK, Ireland, India and Nepal, and has managed social housing and delivered town centre regeneration. Rachel worked for the …
Rachna Leveque Rachna Leveque Areas of Expertise Masterplanning , Resilience, Urban sustainability Rachna Lévêque is an urban planner with global experience in place-making and strategic planning. Working at the core of international multi-disciplinary teams, Rachna has developed masterplans, formulated strategies and reports for public dissemination, designed and delivered collaborative workshops, prepared financial models and led …
Raj Takhar Raj Takhar Areas of Expertise Materials, Placemaking, Redevelopment Offering 30 years’ experience, Raj leads the Manchester office of AKT II: a design-led, interdisciplinary engineering practice that unites 300 UK-based design and technical staff with 30 languages and 50 cultural backgrounds; together drawing insight from the firm’s work across 50 countries. Raj is a …
Ramsey Yassa Ramsey Yassa Areas of Expertise Equity and inclusion, Community engagement, Wellbeing Ramsey Yassa is an architect based in Tottenham, North London and the founder of interdisciplinary design practice, NOOMA Studio. Ramsey was born and raised in inner London in the City of Westminster, his mother is an author and his father is a …
Razieh Zandieh Razieh Zandieh Areas of Expertise Age-friendly design, Equity and inclusion, Research I am Lecturer in Urban design and Planning at the University of Manchester, UK. I completed my PhD research – on ‘healthy urban planning: the influence of the built environment on older adults’ outdoor walking’ – at the Faculty for Geo-Information Science …
Rhiannon Corcoran Rhiannon Corcoran Areas of Expertise Mental health, Policy and guidance, Research Rhiannon is a Professor of Psychology & Public Mental Health at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Population Health. For the past 6 years she has lead the Community Wellbeing Evidence Programme of the UK’s What Works Centre for Wellbeing funded by …
Riccardo Bobisse Riccardo Bobisse Areas of Expertise Masterplanning, Regeneration, Town centre revitalisation I am an urbanist with a multi-disciplinary background in regeneration and urban design. I have extensive experience in masterplanning and town centre revitalisation strategies throughout the UK, Europe and overseas. I specialise in delivering complex city centre regeneration schemes, and I sit on …
Richard Cass Richard Cass Areas of Expertise Landscape and ecological design, Masterplanning for infrastrucure and major projects, Sustainable design Richard qualified initially as an architect and landscape architect. He has been committed to working in a multidisciplinary team context throughout a 40 year career, including design leadership in large scale urban regeneration, transport infrastructure, and …
Richard Cohen Richard Cohen Areas of Expertise City, coastal and market town renewal., Cross-sector partnership delivery., Strategic place shaping. Richard has 30+ years experience in national, regional and local government. He is a strategist in place-shaping and renewal, a project director, government advisor and organisational leader with a track record nationally and in London, Bristol …
Richard Dougherty Richard Dougherty Areas of Expertise Architecture , Inclusive design , Urban design I’m currently an Associate Architect with Hall McKnight. I graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast in 2003 and worked for a number of local practices before moving to Australia to travel and participate in the Deaflymics Games for Ireland in Melbourne. I …
