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Association for Professional Studies in Architecture

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Our Committee

Our team consists of highly qualified and motivated professionals, who are all experts in their field. With many years of experience in architecture and education, they have the expertise to provide comprehensive and broad perspectives to our work.

Wendy Colvin

Chair - re-elected 2025

Wendy Colvin has been the Programme Leader for the Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice and Management in Architecture at the University of the West of England since she developed and launched the course in October 2007. She has also held posts at University College London and the University of Portsmouth, and is a considerably experienced architecture examiner. Wendy has been an active member of APSA for over 20 years and involved in numerous cross-organisation activities with RIBA, ARB and SCOSA. Earlier in her career, Wendy worked for architectural and multi-disciplinary firms in the UK, Germany and USA.

Carl Meddings

Vice-Chair - re-elected 2025

Carl is the Programme Leader for the M.Arch in Sustainable Architecture (Part 2) at the Centre for Alternative Technology. He has taught at several architectural schools at all levels from pre-first-year undergrad to final year at masters level and beyond. He is passionate about the education of architects in our rapidly changing cultural and professional environments.


 

Rachel Newton

Secretary - 
elected 2025

Rachel is a registered Architect, full-time Senior Lecturer leading the PgCert in Architecture and Contemporary Practice programme (RIBA Part 3), Director of Little Architect CIC; a social enterprise teaching children and young people about Architecture and the built environment, and an apprentice Craftivist.

A highly motivated educator, Rachel has 16 years of experience working in Architectural practice and related creative disciplines including - branding, marketing, web design, and graphics. Rachel joins the MSA after completing a PGCE and is passionate about developing specialist HE pedagogical approaches through her course leadership role.

Stephen McCusker

Treasurer - re-elected 2025

Stephen McCusker is Professional Skills Lead at the Manchester School of Architecture.

He maintains this role part-time, alongside his ongoing, external practise as an Architect-Director where he delivers value-led and community-centric projects, formerly at Loop Systems co-operative until it became part of the Place Capital Group in 2021 where it continues to contribute to works of social value across the UK.

He has been a board member at the ARB since 2019 and is an experienced ARB prescribed examiner, Part 3 examiner, year leader and teacher of Architecture & Design Thinking, Stephen continues to bringing his professional, academic and leadership expertise to the role; building on his knowledge of a broad range of project types ranging from furniture to museums and responsible material selection.

John Edmonds 

Committee Member - re-elected 2025
 

John is a chartered architect with over 35 years’ experience, having roots within both academia and commercial private practice. Previous roles have been as a BRE Research Fellow and partner/director within private practice, and currently he is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham and Professional Studies Advisor at Part 3. Direct links with the profession have been maintained with the ARB as a former Prescribed Examiner, and with the RIBA at national level with former committee membership of education panels and former chair of the RIBA Professional Education Steering Group. Previous and current appointments as external examiner or professional examiner are held within Universities and Schools of Architecture at Bath, Cambridge, Cardiff, DMU Leicester, Leeds, Lincoln, Newcastle, Oxford Brookes, Portsmouth, Westminster, UWE Bristol, ARC-ex Belfast and Malaga.

Martina Murphy

Committee Member - re-elected 2025

Dr Martina Murphy has been a Lecturer at the University of Ulster's School of the Built Environment since 2010. Martina is a Chartered Architect who spent 14 years in practice in the UK and Hong Kong working on a range of projects from regional commercial projects to large-scale infrastructure. Subsequently, she obtained a doctorate from the Ulster University (2004) on the implementation of design innovations in the construction procurement process and produced the Innovation Management Model (IMM). She has had roles on advisory, Public and charity boards, including Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA) for 10 years.

Tony Clelford

SCOSA Liaison - re-elected 2025

Tony Clelford is an architect, writer and coach with many years of experience in academia and in architectural practice in both London and regional offices. Tony is currently  Head of Design Practice in the School of Design at the University of Greenwich. He also acts as an examiner for ARB’s examination and has previously served as an independent adviser to ARB’s Prescription Committee. He is also a lecturer or examiner for several British universities. He has been a creativity consultant and tutor to various universities institutions including the Design Council and was involved in the development of the MA in Architectural Management at Nottingham University. He has been a member of several ARB and RIBA working groups and has served as Chair and Secretary of the Association for Professional Studies in Architecture (APSA).

 

Rosi Fieldson

Committee Member - re-elected 2025

Rosi has been a practicing architect for 20 years and joined the University of Lincoln in 2019where she leads studio- based design modules alongside teaching professional practice topics across all architecture degree programmes. This includes examining for qualification of candidates for Architects Registration Board.

Specialisms include Environmental management for construction, BREEAM assessment & LCA for buildings

 

Co-opted members

In addition to our principal team, we are also supported by co-opted members to aford us extra capacity and skills

Andrew Marshall

Co-opted 2025

Andrew Marshall is a chartered architect and Principal Lecturer / Professional Studies Advisor at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment, RGU. He holds a Masters in Construction Law and worked most recently in practice as an architect and assistant expert witness in a small, specialist practice in Glasgow. Andrew has taught Professional Studies in a number of universities in Scotland and is a question setter for the APEAS Part III Exam. He is also an examiner and UK Adaption assessor for the Architects Registration Board.

Alan Jones

Co-opted 2025

Alan Jones is Professor of Education & Practice at Queens University Belfast, leading professional skills teaching and coordinating their Part 3 programme. He is a past president of RIBA and the Royal Society of Ulster Architects.  He co-edited Defining Contemporary Professionalism (RIBA 2019) and instigated Study Architecture Well and Practise Architecture Well (RIBA 2021).  He has worked on seven projects that have received RIBA awards with two shortlisted for the Stirling Prize.  He has judged various awards including the Royal Gold Medal and the Stirling Prize and for many years has championed social ability and the diversity of roles within and through the profession.

Urun Kilic Engasa

Co-opted 2025

Urun is an architect, designer, educator and a full-time lecturer at UClan where she is also  module lead for the Professional Studies course for BSc Year 3. She is an active tutor in Hong Kong Studies Year 3 Design Studio and Professional Studies modules. She has worked closely with RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects). She was, for several years, an Associate Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture and at the University of Liverpool/School of Architecture at both undergraduate and Master's level. She has extensive experience working with international students mainly from South East Asia.

Miranda Terry

Co-opted 2025

Miranda Terry is a Chartered Architect and Course Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice in Architecture. Since taking two postgraduate degrees at the University of Cambridge and Kings College, London respectively, she has worked extensively in the domestic and education sectors, including a wide variety of prestige buildings and publicly funded projects. She is included, as registrant, on RIBA's conservation register, and, with a Masters in Construction Law and Arbitration, she brings as in-depth understanding of formal dispute resolution processes, in addition to her considerable technical abilities.

Derek Hales

Co-opted 2025

Derek is a registered Architect and Lecturer at the University of Salford where he draws upon his interdisciplinary experiences in literature, media and science and on the creative exploration of speculative design methodologies. Prior to his re-engagement with the discipline of architecture and the convergence of media and urban infrastructures, Derek had 15 years of professional experience in interdisciplinary innovation R&D and artistic research.

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