The School of Surveying & Planning
Staff profiles
Sarah Sayce
Sarah Sayce BSc(Hons) PhD FRICS IRRV
Head of School
Sarah has worked in commercial practice both in consultancy and in the corporate sector. She leads one of the most successful surveying & planning graduate providers in the UK, with programmes ranging from undergraduate to PhD level.
Tim Bennett
Tim Bennett BSc MRICS AIMCC
Undergraduate Course Director
Tim is a Chartered Surveyor a former partner in private practice. He has held a number of senior positions within large commercial client firms and consultancy based organisations. He is a Teaching Fellow and is developing research within the field of Teaching &Learning.
Judi Farren Bradley
Judi Farren Bradley DArch RIBA FRSA
C-SCAIPE Director (Research)
Judi is an architect and has been actively engaged in architectural education for over 20 years. She has worked on a variety of research projects with the C-SCAIPE team and has published in the area of professionalism, architectural education and sustainability.
Derek Bruce
Derek Bruce BSc DipArb LLM FRICS IRRV FCIArb FNAEA FICBA
Principal Lecturer
Derek combines a successful career as a practising chartered surveyor specialising in landlord and tenant and dispute resolution work. His role at Kingston University is as postgraduate Business Development Director.
Ana Chadburn
Ana Chadburn BSc(Hons) MSc
Senior Lecturer
Ana specialises in the fields of valuations, asset management, client liaison and reporting services, and investment. She has considerable experience in international real estate consultancy companies.
Richard Cheesman
Richard Cheesman DipSurv BS MA PGDipHE(Management) FRICS
Senior Lecturer
Richard has a wealth of experience in the field of building surveying and this has allowed him to become a contributor to a variety of forums, papers and media articles.
Karen Clarke
Karen Clarke BEng(Hons) PhD
Senior Lecturer
Karen worked as a Graduate Engineer before joining the university. Her research interests lie in Sustainable Construction with particular reference to Geotechnics.
Billy Clements
Research Assistant
Nigel Dubben
Nigel Dubben BSc(Econ) MSc MRICS
Postgraduate Course Director
Nigel has considerable experience and has been a Director of Grosvenor Waterside plc, specialising in waterfront development, a Director of Hall Pain and Foster Ltd. and a Partner in Conspectus Project Management. He is the co-author of Property Portfolio Management (Routledge), and is currently writing Property Partnerships to be published by Blackwell.
Dr Timothy Eccles
Timothy Eccles BSc(Hons) MSc MA PhD MRICS MCIOB IRRV(Hons) MBEng MASI MRSPH
Senior Lecturer
Timothy is a chartered surveyor, a chartered builder and a corporate building engineer, specialising in teaching management issues concerning the construction and property industries and professions. Timothy worked in both public and private sector QS offices before moving to Kingston University.
Dr Katherine Eames
Dr Katherine Eames BSc (Hons), PhD
Research Associate
Katherine is working with Dr Yamuna Kaluarachchi on the Partnerships for Public Engagement Project “Sustainable Living and the Older Community” funded by the EPSRC.
Fiona Firth
Senior Lecturer
Fiona qualified as a General Practice Surveyor in 1990. During a 10 year career in property she has worked within the public sector, the private sector and consultancy organisations. She is currently undertaking a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Dr Bahram Ghiassee
Dr Bahram Ghiassee BSc MSc PhD DIC MBA LLB LLM
Senior Lecturer
Bahram is an academic lawyer primarily involved in the teaching of European law, environmental law and planning law, at both UG & PG levels.
Dr Silvia Gullino
Dr Silvia Gullino MSc PhD
Senior Lecturer in Spatial Planning
Silvia qualified as an Architect at the Politecnico of Torino (Italy). She holds a PhD from the Politecnico of Milano (Italy) for a thesis on the Experiences of Sustainable Urban Regeneration in the UK and she has lectured in Milan and is a Visiting Scholar at King’s College London.
Paul Hannent
Paul Hannent BSc(Hons) CEnv MCIOB MBEng RMaPS Senior Lecturer in Surveying & Planning
Paul is comprehensively qualified having worked in management positions within construction and surveying. He has interests and experience in design management for sustainable building as well as fire safety, accessibility and building standards generally.
Charlotte Harris
Charlotte Harris BSc(Hons) MRTPI Cert.Ed
Field Leader, MA Planning & Sustainability
Charlotte is a chartered town planner with a breadth of experience in her field. She is involved in curriculum development on the surveying, property development and housing management programmes.
Dr Yamuna Kaluarachchi
Dr Yamuna KaluarachchiBSc (Hons) MSc (ARCH) MSc (BDDC) PhD ARIBA
Reader & Deputy Director of the Real Estate Research Centre
Chartered Architect by profession, Yamuna has won many awards for Architecture and Urban Design projects.
Gordon Kinloch
Gordon Kinloch BA(Hons)
Manager C-SCAIPE
Gordon joined C-SCAIPE in 2005 and he has had a keen interest in sustainability since 1992 when he worked for Greenpeace in Australia and helped develop a land management plan for CALM on behalf of the Goolarabooloo Aboriginal community north of Broome, Western Australia.
Amanda Lewis
Amanda Lewis BA(Hons) DipArch MSc RIBA ILTM
Director C-SCAIPE
Amanda Lewis qualified as an architect and worked in private practice before joining Kingston University School of Surveying & Planning following successful completion of her RICS accredited masters. As an academic she has worked as a researcher, senior lecturer and Postgraduate Course Director.
Stephanie Marsh
Stephanie Marsh BSc(Hons)
Teaching & Learning Support Office
Having finished her degree at Kingston, Stephanie joined the research staff to develop a work placement scheme in conjunction with RICS to encourage young students to consider Chartered Surveying as a career.
Theopisti C. Papdopoulou
Theopisti C. Papdopoulou Dipl.-Ing. MEng, AMIMechE
Senior Lecturer in Construction/Quantity Surveying
Combining her engineering background and professional experience in construction project management, Theopisti is responsible for the delivery of several construction-related modules of the building/quantity surveying fields at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
John Pointing
John Pointing BA(Hons) MPHIL PhD FRICS IRRV FICPD
Senior Lecturer
John has considerable experience in regulatory law and of civil and criminal proceedings. He has also advised central government bodies, including DEFRA and he has, for several years, run training programmes for senior staff, lawyers and enforcement officers in industry, local authorities and regulatory bodies.
James Ritson
Researcher
Judy Smith
Judy Smith BSc(Hons) PGDip ILTM MRICS
Field Leader MSc Real Estate
Judy practised as a chartered surveyor in the public sector and also in a consultancy capacity before becoming a lecturer at Kingston University. Judy’s specialism is property investment, valuations and IT applications.
Stephen Springer
Senior Lecturer
Anna Sundberg
Lecturer
Anna teaches property valuation and appraisal and investment at undergraduate level combining teaching commitments with research into green leases and the valuation of heritage assets.
Nick Tromans
Nick Tromans MA PhD
Field Leader MA Arts Market Appraisal
Nick is an art historian, trained at Cambridge University and the Barber Institute at Birmingham University, specialising in nineteenth-century fine art. Nicholas has taught at the universities of Birmingham and Leicester, and worked for several years at Sotheby’s in London.
Gavin Ward
Gavin Ward BSc (Hons) MBA PGCE MRICS
Senior Lecturer
Gavin is a chartered quantity surveyor whose specialisms are in sustainable construction, procurement and financial management, design economics and construction contract law, and facilities management.
Dennis Wilkinson
Dennis Wilkinson Ing P Eur FBEng FRICS IPF
Senior Lecturer
Dennis is a Chartered Environmental Surveyor and Chartered Environmentalist originally qualifying as a General Practice Surveyor and, specialising in property design.