The School of Surveying & Planning
Staff profiles
Professor Sarah Sayce
Professor 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
Associate Head of School
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.
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.
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.
Nigel Dubben
Nigel Dubben BSc(Econ) MSc MRICS
Honorary Fellow
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.
Judith Farren Bradley
Judith 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.
Dr Bahram Ghiassee
Dr Bahram Ghiassee BSc MSc PhD DIC MBA LLB LLM AMRTPI MNucl CEng MCIArb
Senior Lecturer
As an academic lawyer, Bahram is primarily involved in the teaching of European Law, Environmental Law & Policy, and Spatial Planning at U/G and P/G 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 MSc(Arch) CEnv MCIOB MBEng RMaPS Senior Lecturer in Surveying & Planning
Paul lectures mainly in construction technology and design matters from his experience in Building Control and Design Management, contracting and client side.
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.
Steve Houchin
Mr Steve Houchin
Academic Director (Building & Heritage)
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.
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.
Dr Tina (Theopisti) C. Papadopoulou
Dr Tina (Theopisti) C. Papadopoulou PhD Dipl.-Ing. MAPM ICIOB AMIMechE AMInstLM
Academic Director for Quantity Surveying Consultancy, Principal Lecturer
Combining her engineering background and professional experience in construction project management, Tina is responsible for the delivery of several construction-related modules within the quantity surveying field 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.
Fiona Quinn
Research Assistant
Judy Smith
Judy Smith BSc(Hons) PGDip ILTM MRICS
Academic Course Director 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.
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.