Dr Philip Graham
Architect and Researcher
Philip is an architect at Cullinan Studio and a postdoctoral ‘Innovation Scholar in Design’ at the University of Cambridge (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI). The output of this three-year secondment will be a handbook for designing, delivering and promoting adjustable housing, as well as knowledge transfer partnerships with experts in industry, practice and housing research. Alongside, Philip is a Bye-fellow and Director of Studies at Homerton College, Cambridge, and a visiting teacher of sustainable housing design at Tampere University, Finland.
Philip’s PhD (awarded 2023) spans the fields of housing architecture, real estate and economics. It concerns the need for a more adjustable housing stock to help households to manage economic shocks and changing needs, despite the UK’s illiquid housing market. Before splitting his time in the practice between teaching and research, Philip spent over a decade designing housing and urban regeneration projects, both in the UK and in housing-led city and heritage masterplanning in Libya.