Miss Linda Watson

Research interests

EARTHEN ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING RETROFITTING

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Steven Goodhew,2001, PhD. The Thermal Properties of Cob Buildings of Devon and Somerset  

 Margaret Ford, 2002, PhD. The Development of a Methodology for Creating an Earthen Building Inventory

Bruce Induni, 2006, PhD. The Survival of Medieval Plaster in Dorset Churches.

Tamara Rogic, 2006, MPhil.  A Methodological Framework for the Recording and Evaluation of Industrial Architecture in Croatia.  Tested on the Example of the Tobacco Industry.

Colin Williams, 2007, MPhil.  Adobe as a Modern Material, its Justification, Production and Use.

Current Supervision:

Michele Sidebotham, MPhil/PhD. The Architectural Significance of the South Devon Seaside.

Bridget Gillard, MPhil/PhD.  The Relationship Between Funding and the Survival of Rural Churches

Theophilus Shittu, PhD.  Earthen Architectural Conservation in Nigeria: Defining and Disseminating

Grants & contracts

1.       RETROFITTING: UPSKILLING THE REGIONAL CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

LW has received funding from SWLLN (South West Lifelong Learning Network)   to develop an educational and training strategy at a workshop in January `10 and advise FE colleges in the group on new teaching material and progression from FDs to professional accreditation.

WORKSHOP: Dartington Hall 7th & 8th Jan 2010. Forty paricpants representing LPA Conservation Officers, Housing Associations, Architectural Practices  and Engineering Consultants meet to hear key note speakers discuss issues concerning the Retrofitting of the SW Region`s Traditional Building Stock. An indepth discussion amongst particpants generated the beginings of a Regional Strategy to upskill our consturction industry. This was funded by SWLLN and  Dartington Hall Trust.

ADVISING FE COLLEGES : This has focused upon intergrating sustainability and building conservation into existing  and the development of new courses

2.      RETROFITTING: TSB PROJECTS

LW & MM established a team of practitioners and made application for two projects to develop proposals to retrofit two terraced houses in conservation areas. We were fortunate in being awarded both projects.

The team have recently applied for second stage funding to implement the proposals. Here the funding for each project will total £150,000 if we are successful.

3.      INTERREG :  PROJECT  CORDIALE ( formerly called SULIS )

Initially this project comprised 19 partners in total under the leadership of Devon C.C. LW &MM are leading the Low Impact Building Studio which forms an important part of the bid and the reason we were invited to join the group. The application comprised working with our French partners in Normandy and Brittany in producing and disseminating conservation techniques for the traditional building stock in protected areas. Having spent over a year producing the application for submission in summer 2009, we were asked to resubmit a simplfied project in Spring 2010. The results are yet to be announced.