Christine Wall, Professor of Architectural History and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE), has been awarded a prestigious Emeritus Leverhulme Fellowship for two years starting in September 2022.
The Leverhulme Trust awards Emeritus Fellowships to senior researchers who have retired or partially retired from an academic post to complete a research project and prepare the results for publication.
Professor Wall’s project, building on her previous research with ProBE, uses archives and oral history interviews to chart the origins and significance of key campaign groups which emerged during a period of optimism and dynamism in feminist, built environment activism. These groups addressed the design of public spaces and housing, advised the construction industry, and provided training and support for women in the trades, in particular women from under-represented groups.
Speaking about being awarded the prestigious Fellowship, Professor Wall said: “This is an opportunity to record the life stories of many women who were trailblazers in construction, document the policies they influenced, the building work they completed and ensure their contribution to the history of the twentieth century built environment is not forgotten.”
Find out more about the work of ProBE at the University of Westminster.
