Dr Ricky Burke

Ricky is Programme Leader for BA (hons) Architecture.

A former student at the University of Plymouth, Ricky is a registered architect and former BIM consultant. Ricky teaches in Architecture, Built Environment, Engineering, and Design courses in both undergraduate and taught post-graduate courses. Ricky's teaching is based both the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Ricky brings specialisms in socially and inhabitationally focussed design, as well as Information management and advancing media explorations to the construction and delivery of teaching at undergraduate and post-graduate level. Ricky is the Architecture Communications stream leader and Undergraduate Year 2 leader. 

Ricky's primary research interests include investigation into the role of the built environment in personal and social fulfilment; inclusive design practice with vulnerable participants; and the use of advancing media in muti-modal architectural design.

Qualifications

Architect

BA (Hons)

MArch

PGCArch

PhD

Professional membership

Architect's Registration Board

Teaching interests

Research interests

Ricky's research is focussed on the inclusion of participants in co-design practices, particularly and most recently involving the inclusion of people with cognitive difficulties in design activities. Grounded Theory and Critical Action Research approaches are central to an evolving research method. 

Ricky's doctoral thesis, Burke, R. (2022), focussed on the co-design of socially and personally fulfilling environments for people with a dementia diagnosis co-living in residential care homes.

More broadly, Ricky's research interests extend to multi-modal design and communications approaches, including the use of advancing media and co-design methods.

Burke, R. (2022) Design for Dementia: Exploring alternate contemporary cultures of residential care design. Plymouth : Plymouth University

Conferences organised

University of Plymouth Architecture Research Symposium 2021