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Senga Bate, Head of Administration

Heather Chapple, Enabling Advisor

Maire Cox, Research + Communications Officer

Adam Davies, Head of Enabling

Eric Dawson, Planner

Kate Francey, Operations Assistant

Steven Malone, Architect

Sebastian Tombs, Chief Executive

Angela Williams, Head of Design Review

ERIC DAWSON
Eric qualified in Architecture in 1985 and has experience of public and private practice. Latterly he has been a design consultant with City of Edinburgh Council planning department, and deferred a Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction in Urban & Regional Planning to complete his Masters. His particular interest is how design quality is considered in the planning system, and in 2002 won the Scottish Executive’s ‘Designing Places’ award for Quality in Planning.

Eric has travelled extensively, particularly in New Zealand where he lived for 8 years, has climbed in the Himalayas, trekked in the Andes, recorded and toured with jazz / blues bands – none of which prepared him for two energetic sons.

ANGELA WILLIAMS
Angela Williams studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. She worked with Neylan and Ungless Architects and Levitt Bernstein Associates on public housing projects in London before setting up in practice with her husband as Williams and Hawley Architects. Since living in Edinburgh she has taught architectural students in a number of Scottish Universities. She joined the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland in 1999 as their staff architect, and transferred to A+DS when it was established in April this year.

She also teaches a course for continuing education students on “Understanding Modern Architecture” at the University of Edinburgh.

MÁIRE COX
Máire was born and brought up in Northern Ireland. She moved to Scotland in the early 1990s and completed a Master of Arts degree (with Honours) in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, specialising in the history and theory of modern architecture. Having completed a Post-graduate Diploma at the University of Manchester, she moved to London in 1997.

She spent four years in the Communications Department of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners before moving to Dyer architects, where she set up the practice’s Marketing & Communications operation. With Dyer, she re-located to Edinburgh in January 2005 and now lives in Morningside.

ADAM DAVIES
Adam Davies comes to A+DS from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment in England where he worked in the enabling team leading on the design coding research and pilot programme. He has extensive experience in enabling large regeneration projects and design policy formulation within growth and housing market renewal areas in England. Adam has also worked as a policy advisor in the planning policies division at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and as a private consulting planner in Australia.

Adam is a professional town planner with strong urban design interests, holds a Bachelor degree in urban planning, and a Master of Philosophy degree where he investigated environmental policy and intergovernmental relations.

STEVEN MALONE
Steven studied architecture at the University of Strathclyde where he received the N Morcos-Asaad Prize for excellence in design in his diploma year. During his studies he spent a semester at the Technische Universtität in Vienna. Steven worked for Theatre Futures in London before relocating to Edinburgh in 1999 to join Gaia Architects. For the past four years he has been with Parr Architects in Edinburgh where he was project architect on PPP schools and sustainable housing projects. He has a keen interest in ecological design and environmental issues and has tutored in the Ecology & Sustainability Unit at the University of Strathclyde.

Steven is a co-editor of the Scottish Ecological Design Association’s (SEDA) magazine and sits on their steering group.

HEATHER CHAPPLE
Heather studied architecture at University of Wales and the University of Edinburgh, qualifying in 1995.  For seven years she was an Associate at Smith Scott Mullan Associates, taking a broad range of responsibilities from the briefing and early design development of care and educational facilities, through running a branch office within the Disabled Persons Housing Service to the design of award winning buildings such as the National Rowing Academy.  She has influenced the future of our built environment as a member of the Building Standards Advisory Committee, as a lecturer and writer on inclusive design and through responding to Parliamentary consultations.  Before becoming our Enabling Advisor, Heather had been working as a consultant to A+DS supporting the Design Review function.

In her spare time Heather combines riding her 900cc motorbike with running the UK arm of an organisation which arranges peer support adventures for young women who are living with a diagnosis of breast cancer.