Dr Dena Qaddumi

Dena Qaddumi joined the Department of Sociology in September 2022 as Fellow in City Design and Social Science. Dena is a scholar of urban politics and the built environment with regional expertise in the Middle East and North Africa. Her research uses interdisciplinary social science and architectural methods to understand how culture, geopolitics, and colonisation are embodied in contemporary cities.

Prior to her PhD, Dena worked in architecture, urban planning, and higher education in New York, London, Palestine, and Doha. These experiences shape her transnational and comparative approach to research and teaching practice.

Expertise

Postcolonial Urbanism, Public Space, Urban Conflicts, Spatial Ethnography