christodoulou.rafaela@ucy.ac.cy

Rafaela Christodoulou is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Architecture at UCY. She holds a B.A.(Hons) in Architecture and a Diploma of Architect-engineer from the University of Cyprus. She has worked in the private sector in Cyprus and she is a member of Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ETEK).  She also has worked on academic sector as a teacher assistant, collaborating with academic staff through teaching and learning activities at the Department of Architecture at UCY.  Her study focuses on urban segregation as a social and spatial phenomenon especially in cases of public spaces.  The research aims to address spatial and temporal dimensions of urban socio-spatial inequalities, in order to understand the ways in which urban form influences social phenomena, such as urban segregation, and vice versa.  She has participated as a researcher in the AESOP Public Spaces and Urban Cultures thematic meeting (2018), in the the Erasmus + KA2 project, “EPUM; Emerging Perspective on Urban Morphology:  Researching and Learning through Multiple Practices”– A relational-material approach (2018) and in the International Seminar on Urban Form: Cities as Assemblages (ISUF 2019).