LoLo’s Sofie Pelsmakers named as one of RIBA’s Role Models in Equality & Diversity & Inclusion in Architecture campaign

LoLo’s Sofie Pelsmakers named as one of RIBA’s Role Models in Equality & Diversity & Inclusion in Architecture campaign
4th June 2015 Alison Parker

The Royal Institute of British Architects has launched its Equality, Diversity & Inclusion campaign in architecture and named UCL-Energy & LoLo CDT doctoral researcher Sofie Pelsmakers as one of their Role Models.

This campaign highlights the need for architecture to be an inclusive profession and features Sofie’s personal story about how she forged her career in architecture and the barriers she encountered.

Sofie is the co-founder of Architecture for Change, a not-for-profit environmental building organisation. Her current doctoral research in building energy demand reduction investigates how best to reduce the heat-loss of pre-1919 un-insulated suspended timber ground floors. Sofie is author of ‘The Environmental Design Pocketbook’. Sofie will be taking up a lectureship at Sheffield University from October 2015 and she will also lead the MSc in Sustainable Architecture Studies. Read more on the Sheffield University website.

Read more about RIBA’s role models
Read more about Sofie’s personal story about the barriers she has faced in architecture
Read more about Sofie’s PhD project – What are the unintended hygrothermal consequences of insulating suspended timber ground floors in pre-1919 dwellings and how does this inform insulation methods?
(image credit: Pari Naderi for Riba Role Model Project)