Ehab KamelEhab Kamel is a senior lecturer and active researcher in architecture and urban design, with over twenty years of experience in both academia and practice. He is a registered architect (in Egypt and MENA countries) and an urban designer. Since 1998, e has worked on several urban and architectural design projects in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, and Europe, leading design teams through several projects and winning architectural and urban design competitions. He taught architecture at top universities across three different continents. Just after completing his PhD at The University of Nottingham (UK), Ehab moved to China to establish the first international architecture course at the University of Nottingham’s campus in Ningbo, China, before he started his work at UCLan in 2014. Ehab studies the relation between city cultures, and users' perception and wellbeing, which investigates how design for culturally rich sites learn from the past to create sustainable environments and people-focused public spaces. Ehab’s work engages the study of urban spaces and architecture within, and in relation to, cultural heritage contexts. His research concerns the understanding of heritage as an asset to promote better sustainable urban development and city wellbeing. Read More Read Less