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- Qualifications:PhD, M.Arch, BA(Hons), FHEA
- Position:Lecturer in Architecture
- Department:FET - Architecture and the Built Environment
- Telephone:+4411732 81230
- Email:Annie.Bellamy@uwe.ac.uk
About me
As a designer and researcher, I am most interested in the way in which architecture and our built environment can support models of care, in particular end of life and palliative care. Completed in 2022, my doctoral research - “Designing dying well” – employed a practice-led framework and drew on ethnographic methods to explore the multiple narratives of caregiving at end of life. The thesis highlighted the significance and role of architectural design in the multi-disciplinary co-production of in-patient hospice buildings. My research, focused on in-patient hospices in Wales, considered the potential policy and infrastructural changes to the field of end-of-life care alongside an investigation into the ethical implications for architects designing for sensitive environments. The study challenges not only architectural practice of hospice care but provides a provocation for the current state of education and how architectural designers are trained. As a result I have a strong research interest in not only person-centred design, architectural care practices but ethical practice, especially in higher education.
My PhD, awarded in 2022 from the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff was supervised by a multi-disciplinary team of Dr Sam Clark, Welsh School of Architecture and Dr Sally Anstey, School of Healthcare Sciences. I hold a BA(Hons) in Architecture, Spaces and Objects from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, and a Master of Architecture from the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. I was awarded both a RIBA London prize and the Wyn Thomas Prize for best response to site and context for my thesis that explored the notion and concepts of slow living in a rural community of north-east Wales.
Prior to joining UWE I worked at several award-winning practices in Cambridge and Bristol working on a range of scales and projects and was a Design Studio Tutor across various design and research modules at the Welsh School of Architecture.
Area of expertise
Architecture for end-of-life care, ethnography, person-centred design
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