13/11/2024
On Friday 8 November 2024, 2nd year undergraduate students from Belfast’s two Schools of Architecture, Ulster University and Queen’s University Belfast, came together for the launch of this year’s Professional Insights Programme. During the launch the students heard from architect Ellen Dunlop as she briefed students on what to expect and the benefits of the programme.
The programme, which will run until May 2025, is designed to give students an initial understanding of the real-life work of an architect to help them better connect their current studies to their future professional life. Students from both schools are partnered together and then assigned a chartered architect who will provide a minimum of six hours contact time to the students.
The programme aims to provide an insight into:
Many thanks to the following architects for volunteering their time and sharing their knowledge with the next generation of architects.
| Stephen Villiers | APD Architects |
| John F Quinn | ASI Architects |
| Jonathon Gannon | Belfast Health and Social Care Trust |
| shane birney | Birney architects |
| Christopher Campbell | Campbell Architects |
| Brian Madden | Consarc Design |
| Chloe Cann | Des Ewing Residential Architects |
| Glenda Hall | Education Authority |
| Sean Furey | Gravity Architects |
| Ryan Cuthbertson & Jonny Spence | Hamilton Architects |
| Kathryn Dowse | HLM Architects |
| Adrienne Campbell | Isherwood + Ellis |
| James Grieve | James Grieve Architects |
| Feargal Harron | Kennedy Fitzgerald Architects |
| Kevin Reynolds | Kevin Reynolds Architect |
| Alastair Keys | Keys and Monaghan Architects |
| Roisin McCann | Marshall McCann Architects |
| Kieran Mc Cambridge | Mc Lean Forte Architects |
| Barry Kane | McAdam Design |
| Cahal Donaghy | McGirr Architects |
| Edelle Henry | McGurk Architects |
| Michael Herron | Michael Herron Architects |
| Cathal Maguire | Milligan Reside Larkin Architects |
| Graeme Montgomery | Montgomery Irwin Architecture and Design |
| Niall Scullion | Newline Architects |
| Roslyn Brown | Ostick and Williams |
| Damian Morris | P. O’Hagan & Associates |
| Paul McAlister | Paul McAlister Architects |
| Ross McMahon | Reddy Architecture + Urbanism |
| Gavin Sloan | RMI Architects |
| Laura Burgess, Claire McCreight | RPP Architects Ltd |
| Sarah Brady | Samuel Stevenson & Sons |
| Ciaran Brown | Si-tu Design |
| Joe Magill | Slemish Design Studio LLP |
| Frank O’Kane | Studiorogers |
| Peter Stewart | Taggarts |
| Paul Crowe | TODD Architects |
| Ivor Hession | TÓG Architecture |
| Michael Fitzpatrick | Ulster University |
| Ronan Keith & Ellen Dunlop | White Ink Architects |
| Hana Stolcova | Whittaker & Watt Architects |
