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Professor Dana Arnold FSA is Professor of Art and Cultural Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute, University of East Anglia. She is an internationally renowned authority in the field of Architectural History and Theory whose work has been published in over 25 languages. Her research focuses on feminist and decolonising alternatives to canonical architectural histories and includes Women and Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now (2024) awarded a Judges’ Commendation Colvin Prize SAHGB 2025, Architecture and Ekphrasis (2020), and The Spaces of the Hospital (2014). She is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Advisory Board; Chair of the Programme Board of Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science; and Deputy Chair, Research Diversity Advisory Panel and a Member of Main Panel D for the Research Excellence Framework 2029. Her new book The Public Consumption of Architecture will be published by Routledge.

Dr. David Barber is an independent photo historian and Secretary of the Royal Photographic Society Historical Group. He writes and lectures about his research projects and his weekly Pressphotoman blog – – has a growing worldwide audience.  A former award-winning journalist, his doctoral thesis, Another Dimension: Stereoscopic Photography and the Press, c. 1896-1911, was funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and awarded (without corrections) by Durham University in 2021.

Louise Campbell is Professor Emerita of History of Art at Warwick University. She has published extensively about the work of Basil Spence and his office, about Coventry’s postwar reconstruction plans, its architecture and its cathedral, about studio architecture, and about public art in the twentieth century.  Her book, Studio Lives: architect, art and artist in twentieth-century Britain was published by Lund Humphries in 2019. She continues to explore the relationship between artists and the design of the places in which they work by looking at the architecture and culture of postwar colleges of art in the aftermath of the Summerson Report.

Matthew Critchley is a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zürich. Since 2023 he has also been the academic editor of the Institute’s journal gta papers. His first issue of the journal on the politics embedded in the writing of architectural history (gta papers 10 political histories) was published in 2025. His second issue on specific macroeconomic policies and their impact on architecture (gta papers 11 macroeconomics) will be published in November this year (2026). He completed his doctorate titled A Question of Method: Anthony Blunt and the Practice of Architectural History in Britain (1934-1974) in 2023 under the supervision of Maarten Delbeke and Anthony Vidler. Previous to that, he worked as an architect for offices in London and Basel, including Herzog & de Meuron. He has published in the AA Files, OASE, gta papers, Architectural Theory Review and the Quaderni della Bibliotheca Hertziana.

Luca Csepely-Knorr is Chair in Architecture at the Liverpool School of Architecture. She is a chartered landscape architect and art and architectural historian. Luca leads the Landscape|Gender|Environment Research Collective and is co-convener of the European Architectural History Network’s Women and Gender in Landscape, Architecture and Urban Design Interest Group with Professor Svava Riesto. Her research is focusing on the transnational histories of landscape and environmental history with a special focus on women’s contribution to shaping disciplinary agendas and the evolving social and ecological discourses of the 20th century.

Medha Dube is an architectural conservation professional and researcher with experience in heritage research and community-based initiatives across the UK and India. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Conservation of the Historic Environment from Birmingham City University and a Master’s degree in Architectural Conservation from the School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India. She is a RIBA Affiliate and a Supporting Member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC). Her research interests include architectural historiography, vernacular and visual heritage, hydro-social landscapes, and democratic approaches to conservation. She has published fifteen research papers on architecture, heritage and cultural landscapes, and has presented her work at national and international academic and professional forums.

Dr Émilie Oléron Evans is an art historian and translator based at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the respective and combined roles of gender dynamics and of translation in the conceptualisation and institutional evolution of history of art, architecture and design as disciplines. She wrote on the reception and legacy of, among others, Nikolaus Pevsner, Linda Nochlin and Carol Duncan. Together with Dr Hans C. Hoenes (Aberdeen), she is co-investigator on the project ‘Women and History of Art in the Making, Britain, 1945-1974’, which proposes new approaches for documenting and interpreting the archival traces of women’s professional agency in the spaces shaping visual literacy.

Dr. Frida Grahn is an architectural historian specialising in feminist historiography, publishing cultures, and the transnational circulation of architectural ideas. She holds a PhD from the USI Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio (2024, summa cum laude) and is an SNSF Postdoc.Mobility Fellow at London South Bank University (2026–2027). Her fellowship project, “The Editor’s Voice: Monica Pidgeon and the Feminist Politics of Architectural Publishing, 1941–2009,” examines Pidgeon’s editorial career across Architectural Design, the RIBA Journal, and Pidgeon Audio Visual. Grahn is the editor of Denise Scott Brown: In Other Eyes (Birkhäuser, 2022) and the co-curator of Tendenzen at 50: Portrait of an Exhibition (gta, ETH Zürich, 2026).

Richard W. Hayes is an architectural historian educated at Columbia and Yale Universities whose scholarship focuses on 19th-century Britain. His publications include a chapter in the award-winning book E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer, edited by Susan Weber Soros. His research has also been published in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architectural History, Architectural Theory Review, The Journal of Architectural Education, Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal, and Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens. In 2007 he published The Yale Building Project: The First 40 Years, a comprehensive history of an influential academic programme.

Joshua Mardell is a Tutor in the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art, specialising in the historiography of conservation activism. He is currently a Paul Mellon Centre Mid-Career Fellow, working on Billa Harrod and the gendered infrastructures of rural conservation in post-war Britain. This will form part of a forthcoming monograph, a transatlantic collective biography of conservationists Margot Gayle and Joan Maynard in the USA, and Billa Harrod and Elizabeth Young in Britain. He is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Architecture, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and Director of the Victorian Society in America London Summer School.

Sue Palmer has been Archivist to Sir John Soane’s Museum since 1989. She is the author of At Home with the Soanes. Upstairs, Downstairs in 19th century London, and of a number of articles about Soane’s life and work and on garden and local history.

Aileen Reid is a Senior Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL where she has been a historian on the Survey of London for more than twenty years. She studied History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and did her PhD, on the architect EW Godwin (1833-1886), at the Ģ����Ƶ Institute of Art, University of London. She worked for fifteen years as a journalist in Fleet Street, latterly as assistant literary editor on the Sunday Telegraph and was the first curator of Emery Walker’s house in Hammersmith, West London. Since joining the Survey of London she has written twenty chapters in the Survey’s area volumes and recent monograph on UCL’s buildings. She has two other books coming out in 2026: Round Cleaver Square. The First Georgian Square in South London, its Neighbours, History, Buildings and People and EW Godwin, a monograph in the Liverpool University Press/Victorian Society/Historic England Victorian Architects series.

Vicky Richardson FRIBA is an architectural curator and writer who holds degrees in Early Modern History and Architecture from King’s College London and the University of Westminster. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and serves on the Soane Medal jury. Richardson was previously Head of Architecture and Drue Heinz Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts (2021–24), Director of Architecture, Design and Fashion at the British Council (2010–16) and Editor of Blueprint (2004-2010). Her portfolio includes exhibitions at the Royal Academy, commissioning the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and curating the architecture section of the inaugural Guangzhou Design Triennial in 2024. Vicky recently set up the curatorial office, Pick Up Architecture, which is working on a number of international exhibitions and publications. Alongside this she is a thesis tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Natcha Ruamsanitwong is an architectural historian and author of Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight: Architects of Modern Britain (Lund Humphries, 2026). She is the SAHGB Women’s Architectural Historian Network (WAHN) convenor and Vice-Chair of the Construction History Society. Currently, she is Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at Staffordshire and acting Director of Studies in Architecture and Design at Queens’ College, Cambridge.

Tanya is a lecturer at the University of Brighton where she teaches architecture criticism and research at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Tanya was a practicing architect, architectural critic, and heritage consultant in Canada for several years before returning to university to complete her PhD at McGill University. Her award-winning doctoral research focuses on the work of women photographers, arguing for a subtractive approach to architectural history by looking to sites of destruction (rather than construction) as opportunities to engage a gendered city. Tanya currently sits on the Steering Committee for the Architectural Humanities Research Association () where she is also a member of the Lobbying Working Group and co-leads the Architectural and Spatial Histories strand of the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton. Through these initiatives, she uses her research, advocacy and teaching experience to promote the importance of humanities in architectural education and in the wider profession.

Dr Caroline Stanford, FSA, has been in-house Historian at the Landmark Trust since 2001, researching their buildings and feeding into their restorations as a participating member of the design teams. She has a specialism in Coade stone and its equivalents in the long 18 th century on which she recently completed her doctoral thesis. She encountered Katherine Esdaile’s work in the course of that research.