The Bartlett Gender and Urban Equalities Symposium

Sara Shafiei is Vice-Dean Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, and Associate Professor at The Bartlett. She is co-creator of Bartlett Alternative; a collective curriculum hub, that celebrates and amplifies underrepresented voices, narratives, and agendas, through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens. 

Dr Hanna Baumann is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity. Her work is concerned with questions of urban exclusion and participation. A recent four-year project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, examined the role of infrastructures and public services in shaping the urban participation of non-citizens in Beirut, London and Berlin. Hanna frequently uses participatory and creative research methods, including collaborations with artists and designers. 

Beth Hughes is an independent Curator and Researcher, based in London. In a freelance capacity she is part of Lubaina Himid’s team as Curator and Creative Producer and is the contemporary art Curator at Salisbury Cathedral. Formally she was Curator at Arts Council Collection for almost eight years, where she was responsible for the care and research of the non-sculptural holdings as well as overseeing the loans programme and supporting organisations around the country to borrow from the Collection. Beth’s curatorial practice balances the fundamental belief in the importance and power of public art collections with a dedicated commitment to collaboration and access. She has curated a wide range of exhibitions including Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection, the Grayson Perry tapestry series, The Vanity of Small Differences and Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City with Lubaina Himid CBE. 

Dr Sol Pérez-Martínez is an architect and researcher teaching at the MSc Learning Environments of The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction. She holds a PhD and MA in Architectural History from the Bartlett, and an Architecture professional degree and MA from Chile. Currently, she researches Latin-American women writing architecture at ETH Zürich. 

Dr Anne Hultzsch is an architectural historian and leads the ERC-funded group ‘Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900’ at ETH Zurich. She did her PhD at the Bartlett, UCL, and a postdoc at AHO, Oslo. Her research focuses on architecture and gender, print cultures, perception, and travel in the 18th and 19th centuries. 

Helen Thomas is an architect, writer, and publisher based in London and Zurich. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Essex. Some of her recent publications include Architecture in Islamic Countries, 2023; The Hybrid Practitioner, 2022; Extracts: Women Writing Architecture, 2021; Architecture through Drawing, 2019; Drawing Architecture, 2018. Together with Emilie Appercé, she is the editor of Women Writing Architecture. 

Dr Antoine Vernet is Associate Professor in Management in The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction. His research interests focus on organizational design and workplace inequalities using social network analysis.