Professor Paul Jenkins
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
May 09 – Oct 13
Research Professor in Architecture (50%); School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art
Aug 02 - Oct 2013 Professor of Architecture and Human Settlements; School of the Built Environment, Heriot Watt
University SBE-HW (reducing to 50% post from May 2009)
Aug 04 – May 09
Senior Associate Research Fellow; Edinburgh College of Art
Aug 01 - July 04
Graduate Research School Director; Edinburgh College of Art
Nov 96 – Aug 02
Assistant Director, then Director, Centre of Environment and Human Settlements (CEHS), School of
Planning & Housing, Edinburgh School of Art/Heriot Watt University
Mar 93 - Oct 96
Regional Advisor, then National Policy Advisor, Community and Urban Services Project, South Africa,
PADCO Inc., Washington DC, USA
Sept 91 – Mar 93
Senior Programme Manager, U.N.C.H.S (Habitat) United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Project MOZ/91/010 "Formulation of an Urban Development & Housing Programme", Mozambique
Dec 87 - June 91
Architect/Planner, U.N.C.H.S (Habitat) United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Project
MOZ/86/005 "Contribution to a National Housing Policy", Mozambique
Dec 85 – Dec 87
Consultant Architect, Ministry of Construction and Water Affairs, Mozambique Housing Programmes
Office - PROHABITA
Dec 80 – Dec 85
Head of Urbanisation Department, Construction and Urbanisation Directorate, Maputo City Council
1979 - 1980
Architect/Research Assistant, ASSIST (Community Architects) University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
1977 – 1979
Architect and Building Brigade Coordinator, Serowe Brigades Development Trust, Botswana
1976 – 1977
Principal Architectural Assistant, D. Ashdown (Architect), Edinburgh
1973 - 1974
Principal Architectural Assistant, P.J.Palmer (Architect), Blantyre, Malawi
Previous short term consultancy work includes: Quality Manager, NIRAS (Denmark), Environmental Management in Five
Northern Cities, Mozambique (2008-10); Urban Environmental Specialist, COWIconsult (Denmark), Metropolitan
Environmental Management in Greater Maputo, Mozambique (2005); Urban Environmental Specialist, NIRAS (Denmark)
Environmental Management in Five Northern Cities, Mozambique (2002); Urban Development and Housing Specialist,
Euroconsult (Netherlands), Metropolitan Area Structure Plan, Maputo, Mozambique (1998-9); Project Architect, Maputo
Agricultural Cooperative Union/Norwegian Aid, “100 Houses project” (1987); Resident Project Manager/Physical Planner,
COWIconsult (Denmark) Maputo Food Security Project (1985).
FUNDED RESEARCH (Lead researcher)
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“Home Space in African cities”, an interdisciplinary investigation of housing, dwelling and home via an in-depth empirical
case study in Maputo, Mozambique, which brings together political-economy and socio-cultural forms of analysis and lets
urban residents express their own perceptions through documentary techniques – with co-investigators in the School of
Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen; Centre of African Studies Lisbon; and Faculty of Architecture
& Physical Planning, Maputo (funding from the Danish Research Council for Innovation). 2009-2012 inclusive.
Knowledge Transfer Partnership with ARK Housing Association, Scotland “Investigating reflective practice in providing
for specialised built environment needs”, funded by Economic and Social Research Council and UK Technology
Transfer Board to enable ARK to review/test and monitor the impact of the built environment on people with learning
disabilities, therefore positioning itself as a prime service provider. From 2010-12 inclusive.
“Housing and human settlements in Angola”, continued advisory work to the Angolan government and NGOs
concerning urban land development and housing strategies in Angola, including selected as one of 5 international experts
for an ‘Expert Workshop’ in November 2011, and a series of training courses (latest scheduled for Oct-Nov 2012) in
Edinburgh and/or Angola – funded by United Nations, Angolan government and NGO sources
“Scoping study of informal housing rental markets in peri-urban areas of Angola”, research assistance to Angolan
NGO Development Workshop, funded by Canadian International Development Research Center as part of wider research
programme entitled ‘Post-conflict transformation of the informal economy in Angola’ (2010)
Arts & Humanities Research Council Speculative Research Grant to investigate “Wider social Participation in the
Architecture Process” – with co-investigators in eca School of Architecture, Macintosh School of Architecture (Glasgow)
and Robert Gordon University Architecture (Aberdeen) (2007 – 2008)
Scottish Government - competitively won tender to investigate “Design at the Heart of House building in Scotland” for
the Architecture Policy Unit, through CEHS, with research inputs from eca School of Architecture, and Architecture at
Edinburgh University (2006- 2007)
Scottish Executive Expertise, Knowledge and Innovation Transfer (SEEKIT) Knowledge Transfer to the Built Environment
(KTTBE) Award: “Research into architecture practice. A pilot study of capturing experiential knowledge”,
ScotMARK & gm+ad architects, Glasgow (2007)
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Architecture + Design Scotland for first phase of internal study of recent secondary school construction in Scotland,
ScotMARK (2006)
Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland: “Architecture research and the profession in Scotland”, study funded by
the Scottish Executive Architecture Policy Unit, ScotMARK (2005)
Scottish Higher Education Council: Strategic Research Development Grant to investigate the feasibility of collaborative
research across relevant HEIs in Scotland – ScotMARK (2005- 2006)
Department for International Development DFID - Angola Desk, to set up, implement and monitor a major research
programme into land issues in urban areas in Angola, with Development Workshop, Angola – including various sibprojects (2002 –2005)
Scottish Executive Central Research Unit “Review of Public Involvement in Planning: Perceptions of the Wider
Public” (2001 – 2002)
Department for International Development DFID (Economic and Social Research Overseas Committee ESCOR) funding
for research into “Urban poverty and the emerging land market in Mozambique” through CEHS (2000 – 2001)
NOORDXXI Foundation (European Commission/InterReg II b funding): “Comparative study in public participation in
the land use planning process in Europe”, CEHS (2000 – 2001)
Department for International Development funding for creation and initial management of the internet-based “North-South
Research Network”, CEHS (1998- 1999).