Yola West-Dennis
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Email: Adenike.West-Dennis@warwick.ac.uk
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Current PhD student
Biography
I am a first year MPhil/PhD student on the TRANSFORM Programme, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. I have worked in a professional services company for the construction industry as a sustainability consultant and I am now applying my academic interests in comparative philosophy to explore conceptions of sustainable urbanisation within cities of different cultural landscapes. My interest in comparative philosophy has drawn comparisons between Western analytic philosophy and philosophy of science, continental philosophy, Buddhism, Indian Philosophy and African Philosophy. I bring this critical lens to the urban design and development process to reconsider how project and stakeholder management processes can be participatory and tailored to local values and cultural heritage.
Research overview
My research looks at how subjective and collective well-being is defined at a local level within cultural landscapes of cities and how these concepts can most effectively be incorporated into the urban design process to optimise citizen's experience of well-being in their urban environments. Participatory research methods and stakeholder and project management processes will be explored within the research.
Academic background
- MPhil/PhD Global Sustainable Development - University of Warwick
- MSc Quantity Surveying - London South Bank University
- MA Philosophy - King's College London
- BSc Physics and Philosophy - Bristol University
Supervisors
- Dr Wes Lin - Global Sustainable Development
- Prof. Jon Coaffee- Politics
Research interests
- Cultural heritage
- Subjective and collective well-being in the built environment
- Comparative philosophy
- Urban development and sustainability
- Participatory research methods
Funding and awards
- TRANSFORM Programme, Leverhulme Trust
Publications
Tbc.