Russell Joined the university full time in 2021 having taught as an HPL for over 15 years. Russell has a great connection with the University being ex Alumini, and having had his daughter graduate with a first in Fashion design as the school. Russell has over 30 years experience in project design and
delivery across many commercial sectors having worked on variety of architectural projects in the UK and for top 100 architectural practices. He has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of both the infrastructure works and the built form. Russell is experienced in most sectors, including urban regeneration business parks and masterplanning. He has considerable experience in designing and delivering large scale projects, including a state-of-the-art headquarters building and technical centre for Peugeot. He had delivered control centres for both the highways agency and the ambulance service. Russell also has 4 years experience as client side Architect working on healthcare projects for dementia, autism and mental health. He has been a design manager, an Architect & client side Architect supervising other Architects on schemes of project value of over £50 million pounds. He also spent two years working on international projects
in Oman, Shanghai and Bulgaria. He has built houses for aids orphans in South Africa and would love to return one day to repeat the experience with his children.
Russell has taught design, design theory, construction, management, practice and law, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Russell has been a guest lecturer for many years and also teaches occasionally at Cardiff school of architecture as a guest tutor. Russell is also a Professional examiner on the Part 3 course . He has previously been involved in research projects with Loughborough and the DMU linking point clouds with CNC manufacture. He has a great interest in modular typologies and did his dissertation on fabric structures. He was on the editorial board for Design Leicestershire book and an event board member for the Design in Mental Health conference, speaking at conferences on autism and dementia.
Russell now heads up professional practice and ethics within the school, he runs the Part 3 course (final year in practice) and still enjoys tutoring and mentoring at degree level and sharing his extensive experience with the early degree years.