FACULTY BIO

Dr. Fay Al Khalifa worked as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Bahrain, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture from 2010 to 2015. She was then promoted to an Assistant Professor after receiving her PhD in October 2015. Al Khalifa, Fay (2015) Urban Sustainability and Transforming Culture in the Arabian Gulf: The Case of Bahrain. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield. Dr. Al-Khalifa is a researcher with a master’s degree in Conservation and Regeneration and a Ph.D. in Landscape, which is, focused on the interrelationship between Cultural Change and Urban Sustainability, particularly in the Arabian Gulf Context. Her research aspires to contribute to the understanding of sustainable urbanism within the context of transformed cultures, urban islands, and urban archipelagos. She was part of a team that won the Golden Lion award in the Venice Biennially in 2010, and she was awarded RIBA’s president’s award for research in 2012. Dr. Al-Khalifa is also interested in the importance of sustainability in real estate, as an asset class, the dynamics of considering sustainability assessment tools in real estate development and the influence of visualization on the opinions and actions of decision makers. She has published a number of papers in journals and conference proceedings. She also obtained two professional certificates; the ISM Certificate in Sales and Marketing Management and the NAIOP Advanced Certificate in Commercial Real Estate Development. Dr. Al-Khalifa is currently the lead researcher in a $22,000 research project that looks into visual discomfort and architecture and is also leading several other research projects related to sustainable urbanism and real estate development. List of Publications can be found at www.fayalkhalifa.com