ميرهام محمد حسنى انور قلج

مدرس في التخطيط العمرانى

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نبذة مختصرة

Merham works as an Assistant Professor at the Urban Design and Planning Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. She had been a PhD fellow at Oxford Brookes University for two years, as part of her PhD study looking into the potentials of Placemaking and Green Infrastructure in Cairo, Egypt. Merham has a great passion for research, and she strives to encourage and promote research especially from understudied contexts in the realm of landscape studies. Merham has been serving as a trustee at Landscape Research Group (LRG) since November 2021. She pursued this position for her passion about propagating Landscape Research in Egypt, the Arab Region, and Africa. She currently holds the Research Coordinator Position for LRG, coordinating the annual Research Funds. Merham also serves as an Associate Editor at the Landscape Research Journal. Additionally she is on the editorial team for the third edition of the Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. Merham served as an assistant editor for a special issue in the Journal of Public Spaces. She has been advocating for the importance of public spaces and was among the Public Space Advisory Board (Early Career) - City Space Architecture. Merham’s research interests include placemaking, people-nature relationship, participatory climate action, landscape governance, livable public spaces, among others. She has several publications in various indexed journals. Recently, She is currently a research fellow at ARIN and UCL for receiving the 2025 Accountable Adaptation research mini-grant.
Merham believes in the importance of education for raising the new scholar generation. She endeavours to provide an interactive and engaging experience for her students as a means for better educational quality. She is engaged in developing several undergrad and post grade curricula. She is serving as the Academic Coordinator for the Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design Master’s Program at Ain Shams University. She is engaged in developing several undergrad and post grade curricula. Merham was a research fellow at Technische Universität Berlin for two months in 2023 aiming at developing the curriculum for MSc course. Merham is currently engaged in two research that focus on linking education and research and promotes research from Africa.

الجوائز التقديرية

April 2017: Joint Supervision Scholarship - Newton Mosharafa.

الأبحاث

1. , " Prospects of Placemaking progression in Arab cities ", Journal of Public Space, 2020
2. , " Public Perception of Environmental Change in Rapidly Growing Cities: the Case of Cairo, Egypt ", Real Corp 2020, 2020
3. , " Understanding people's needs for a vivid public realm as a key towards enhancing modern neighbourhoods' liveability. Nasr City in Cairo as a case study ", Journal of Public Space, 2019
4. Keleg, M.M., Butina Watson, G., Salheen, M.A., " A critical review for Cairo’s green open spaces dynamics as a prospect to act as placemaking anchors ", Urban Design International, 2022
5. Keleg, M., Butina Watson, G., Salheen, M.A., " The path to resilience: Change, landscape aesthetics, and socio-cultural identity in rapidly urbanising contexts. The case of Cairo, Egypt ", Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 2021
6. , " Prospects of Placemaking Progression in Arab cities ", The Journal of Public Space, 2020
7. , " Understanding people’s needs for a vivid public realm as a key towards enhancing modern neighbourhoods’ liveability. Nasr City in Cairo as a case study ", The Journal of Public Space, 2019
8. Keleg, M.M., Abdel Latif, M.M., Salheen, M.A.K., " Towards an Integrated Model of Livability of Public Spaces in Middle Income Neighborhoods ", SSRN, 2018
9. Keleg, Merham M., Watson, Georgia Butina, Salheen, Mohamed A., " A critical review for Cairo's green open spaces dynamics as a prospect to act as placemaking anchors ", Urban Design International, 2022
10. Merham Keleg, Marwa Abdel Lati, Mohamed Salheen, " Towards an Integrated Model of Livability of Public Spaces in Middle Income Neighborhoods ", SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017