Congratulations to Dr Héctor Levatti, on his successful application to be part of the EPSRC’s Engineering Early Career Forum. Dr Levatti will be LSBU's first ever representative for this Forum.

Dr Levatti has sixteen years of experience on research and has worked on research since 2004, when he moved from Argentina to Spain to complete his MSc and PhD. Since 2005, he has used an experimental and numerical approach to work on research for desiccation cracks in clayey soils. He is currently working in collaboration with UPC-BARCELONA TECH on this topic and they have published several dissertations, conference papers and journal papers on this subject.

Dr Levatti has also worked on the project ASTUTE at Swansea University (2012 – 2016) as a project officer. He worked on the solution of several manufacturing problems that the local industry faced in several areas. As a result, he has published several reports, conference and journal papers.

Dr Levatti is now an early career researcher

Mubarak Ismail, a PhD student within the School of the Built Environment and Architecture at LSBU, recently participated in a research presentation competition organised by the London Doctoral Academy at LSBU. Mubarak participated in the '3 minute thesis presentation' category and won first place and a prize of £500 towards research expenses. Click here to watch Mubarak's 3 minute presentation.

LSBU sent the video of the presentation to Vitae, if shortlisted then Mubarak will be given the opportunity to present live at the Vitae congress in Birmingham in September 2019. Learn more about Vitae by clicking here.

Dr. Mustafa Selçuk Çıdık, a senior lecturer in LSBU-BEA, has won one of the best paper awards in an international conference that was held in London between 19-21 June 2019. The conference was organised by Academy for Design, Innovation and Management. The paper, which is co-authored with Dr. V. Zerjav (UCL) and Ms. V. Papagiannopoulou (Faitful+Gould), explores what ‘managing as designing’ means for everyday practices of organisations based on the data collected by Ms. Papagiannopoulou during her master’s studies at UCL. Critical of the current hype about the step-wise methodologies of design thinking for management, the paper argues for a focus on everyday interactions and leadership for effectively ‘managing as designing’ in practice. You can access the full-paper by following the link below.

http://researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk/3250/1/ADIM2019-practice_of_managing_as_designing-final_submission.pdf