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Ana Souto

Ana Souto Galvan

Associate Professor

School of Architecture Design and the Built Environment

Staff Group(s)
Architecture Nottingham Civic Exchange

Role

Dr Ana Souto is an Associate Professor in Inclusive Practices and Architecture at the School of Architecture, Design and Built Environment.

Ana plays a key role in the development and leadership of the research modules on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Architecture, and is supporting doctoral candidates with her role as Director of Doctoral Programmes at School level. She supervises  PhD and Professional Doctorate candidates in the areas of Architecture, Identity, Heritage and Memory.

Ana is currently involved in an interdisciplinary project which aims at reflecting on the connections between identity, memory and heritage, sense of belonging and ownership of the built environment, using a participatory methodology.

Her Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoTL) is situated within Inclusive practices in HE, with a focus on Student as Partners, Decolonising the curriculum, wellbeing, and authentic assessments on Heritage and Identity, to enhance students’ teaching and learning environment, to embrace Students’ voice, as well as supporting their sense of belonging and student experience at NTU. This has been recognised with the Vice-Chancellor Award for Scholarship (2023).

Career overview

  • September 2024 - present: Associate Professor in Inclusive practices and Architecture
  • September 2007- 2024: Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom.
  • January 2019 – Present: Director of Doctoral Programmes. School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom.
  • March 2015 – Present: Course Leader Professional Doctorate Programme. Department of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom.
  • December 2006 – June 2007: Part-time Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom.
  • February 2004 – June 2007: Spanish Language Teaching Assistant at the Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
  • August 2002 – January 2004: Teaching Assistant on History and Art History at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.

Research areas

Ana's research interest lies in architecture as a cultural manifestation of national identity. In this context she has explored the reconstruction of a national identity in post-revolutionary Mexican architecture; the connection between identity and architecture in the pavilions built for the 1929 Iberoamerican Exhibition in Seville; and analysed memorials and museums in Germany in order to look into the different post-war narratives that have emerged in the last few decades.

External activity

Journal reviewing work

Professional and Committees membership

  • Carrington Street Area Townscape Heritage Scheme - Grants Panel Member
  • Member of the Nottingham Roman Catholic Diocesan Trustees - Historic Churches Committee
  • Member of the RIBA East Midlands Research and Innovation Sub-Group
  • Member of The Society for The Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
  • Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

Publications

Selected publications

Chapters in Books:

  • Souto, A. (2024) ‘Learning from the Bauhaus: imagining new Schools of Architecture’, European Association of Architectural Educators Conference, Madrid, 2022 (Springer Nature).
  • Souto, A. and Hughes, T. (2023) ‘Access, Awareness and Students’ Attitudes Towards Green Spaces in Nottingham’ in Viana, David, editor, Emergent Perspectives on Teaching Architecture and Urbanism (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars).
  • Souto, A.; Ullathorne, A; Siebert, P. (2023) ‘Co-designing for inclusive heritage to explore wellbeing and resilient and inclusive cities (SDGs 3 and 11). Choosing mentors and building relationships’, in Blaj-Ward, Lia (Ed.) Mentoring Within and Beyond Higher Education: Achieving the SDGs, (Emerald Publishing).
  • Souto, A. (2020) ‘Architecture encaged, engaged Architecture’ in Sandborg, J., ed., Fluid Territories (Bergen: University of Bergen).
  • Souto, Ana (2013) 'Architecture and memory: Berlin, a phenomenological approach' in: S. Bandyopadhyay and G. Garma Montiel, eds., The territories of identity: architecture in the age of evolving globalization (Abingdon: Routledge), chapter 7, pp. 77-90.


Articles in Journals:

  • Souto, A., Ullathorne, A. (2024) ‘Meeting the ‘readiness for the profession’ challenge: Developing professional skills through a live research project in Architecture’, Working Paper Series ‘Meeting New Challenges in Education (NTU).
  • Siebert, P. and Souto, A. (2024) ‘Exploring barriers to accessing mental health services within minoritised communities in a UK City– a creative participatory approach to service improvement’, Public Health, 227, 228-231.
  • Hughes, T.; Evans, A. and Souto, A. (2023) “Reflecting with students as partners: wellbeing in architectural education”, Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 9 (1).
  • Souto, A. (2022). ‘Students as Research Partners’. In S. Slates & A. Cook-Sather (Eds.,) International Journal for Students as Partners, 6 (2), 149.
  • Souto, Ana (2020) ‘Promoting learning encounters with educational complexes’, C3. Architecture + Landscape + Urbanism, April 2020.
  • Brind, Sue; Jim Harold and Ana Souto (2019) ‘Exploring liminality in Cyprus: spaces, voices, and means of expression’, RUUKKU, issue 13, https://www.researchcatalogue.net/profile/show-exposition?exposition=762132.
  • Souto, Ana (2019) ‘Engaged architecture: building for the community’, C3. Architecture + Landscape + Urbanism, January 2019.
  • Souto, Ana (2018) ‘Experiencing memory museums in Berlin. The Otto Weidt Workshop for the Blind Museum and the Jewish Museum Berlin’, Museum and Society, 16 (1), pp. 1-27.
  • Souto, Ana (2018) ‘Mapping Nottingham’s identity. A case study on critical pedagogy’, in: Sánchez Merina, Javier (Ed.). EURAU18 Alicante: Retroactive Research: Congress Proceedings. Alicante: Escuela Politécnica Superior Alicante University, 2018. ISBN 978-84-1302-003-7, pp. 98-105.
  • Souto, Ana (2018) ‘Rastreando legados postcoloniales: la exposición Iberoamericana de Sevilla de 1929 y la Exposición Colonial de París de 1931’, Universidad de Sevilla, forthcoming.
  • Souto, Ana (2017) ‘(Post)-colonial legacies in Seville: Traces of the Ibero American Exhibition, 1929’, Entremons UPF Journal of World History, number 9, 74-104.
  • Souto, Ana and Dasa Spasojevic (2017) ‘Creative Practices and Public Engagement’, Journal for Artistic Research, Issue 13.
  • Souto, Ana (2015) ‘Neues Museum Berlin, by David Chipperfield: completing the past with a minimalist intervention’, The Architect. The Journal of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, October-December 2015, vol. 116. Issue 4, pp. 151-154.
  • Souto, Ana (2013) ‘Architecture and memory: Berlin, a phenomenological approach’ in: S. Bandyopadhyay and G. Garma Montiel, eds., The territories of identity: architecture in the age of evolving globalization (Abingdon: Routledge), chapter 7, pp. 77-90.
  • Souto, Ana (2011) ‘Archiving Berlin's Past and Renewing the Rhur Valley’. Austausch, Vol. 1 (2), pp.98-120.
  • Souto, Ana (2009) ‘América en Sevilla: la materialización del espíritu neo-imperial en la Exposición Iberoamericana de 1929’,International Journal of Iberian Studies, vol. 22, n. 1, (London: Intellect) pp. 39-67.

Wider dissemination:

  • Herrick, Tim; Souto, Ana and Godwin, Rebecca (2025) The Researching, Advancing and Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE) Podcast Series, Episode 8, ‘Evaluating student observation of teaching schemes: understanding the impact on students and staff’, Episode 8 - Evaluating student observation of teaching schemes: understanding the impact on students and staff - The Researching, Advancing and Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE) Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
  • Charles, Kathy, Souto, Ana (2024) ‘Talking Teaching and Scholarship with Dr Ana Souto, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment’, Talking Teaching and Scholarship Podcast, NTU, Talking Teaching & Scholarship Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
  • Ullathorne, Alice, Souto, Ana, Durham, Laura, Historic England (2023) ‘Partner interview: Heritage Lincolnshire’ Outreach to Ownership Podcast’ (2023)  (Historic England).
  • Foster, C., Siebert, P., Souto, A. and Ekwenye, A. N. (2023) Interim report to the NHS. The Better Together Partnerships Project: Better mental Health Project.
  • Souto, Ana (2022) ‘Written evidence submitted by Nottingham Trent University (LEV0109)’, in House of Commons, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Inquiry: Reimagining where we live: cultural placemaking and the levelling up agenda, House of Commons, 2nd November 2022 (HC 155), page 63.
  • Heritage Lincolnshire (2022) Outreach To Ownership Project Impact Evaluation Summary: Building On History (Historic England).
  • Antón García, Daniel; Moyano Campos, Juan José; Souto, Ana; Nieto Julián, Juan Enrique (2018) ‘Escaneado 3D y gestión de datos para el análisis del estado de conservación del cementerio general de Nottingham, Reino Unido’, APEGA, Conference Proceedings (2019).
  • Souto, Ana (2018) ‘Mapping Nottingham’s Identity. A case study on critical pedagogy’, EURAU18 Alicante: Retroactive Research, Conference Proceedings (2018).
  • Souto, A., 2010. “Building (for) the nation: functionalist architecture in Mexico City 1930-1950”, Architecture, Design and the Nation: First Theoretical Currents Conference, Nottingham Trent University, 14-15 September 2010.   Quek, R. and Deane, D., eds., pp. 95-101.
  • Souto, Ana (2008) ‘La protección del Patrimonio en México DF. La conservación de la identidad en el siglo XX’, Actas del XIII Congreso del Comité Español de Historia del Arte (Palma de Mallorca: Universitat de les Illes Balears. Edicions UIB), pp. 1409-1418.
  • Souto, Ana (2005) ‘España y su imagen en las Exposiciones Universales (1851-1929)’, in Robert Archer, Valdi Astvaldsson, Stephen Boyd & Michael Thompson (eds.) Antes y después del Quijote: en el cincuentenario de la Asociación de Hispanistas de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda (València: Biblioteca Valenciana), pp. 747-756.
  • Souto, Ana (2003) ‘La búsqueda de una identidad nacional. Arquitectura en Mexico, 1920-1950’, Congreso de Investigación y Extensión del Sistema Tecnológico de Monterrey. Dirección de Investigación y Extensión, Campus Monterrey. Tecnológico de Monterrey., pp. 1050-1058.
  • Souto, Ana (2000) ‘El Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC) de Alvaro Siza’, Actas del XIII Congreso del Comité Español de Historia del Arte (Granada) Volume I, pp. 383-388.

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Press expertise

  • Architecture and cultural identity
  • Architecture and memory