Fiona joined Social Life in September 2024. As a Geographer and a trained Urban Designer, Fiona brings experience working in regeneration and engagement.
Her professional ethos centres around research-led urban design, with a passion for understanding the place-based needs of women, girls and young people. She has explored this interest by running body mapping workshops for the London Festival of Architecture and by working with Make Space for Girls.
At Social Life Fiona has been part of the team carrying out quantitative research for Suffolk Council's public health team on wellbeing and resilience in coastal communities. She also supported mapping and visualisation of community input for our work in east Birmingham with Loconomy. Fiona is reviewing and developing how we visualise and map our Community Dynamics data and social sustainability framework.
Fiona holds a MSc in Urban Design and City Planning from UCL, where her research thesis focused on the relationship between the form, flexibility and sociability of new build suburban estates. The thesis built on her studies in Human Geography, where her dissertation explored the relationship between corporate and urban social sustainability of housebuilders and their developments.
