Stephen Roberts

Assistant Professor

School: Architecture and Built Environment

Stephen Roberts is an Architect and Assistant Professor in architecture. He studied at the University of Humberside and Leeds Metropolitan University and has over 20 years of architectural experience in public and private practice across housing, educational and community-based projects. During his tenure at Northumbria University, Stephen has taught on and authored content for both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. More recently interests exploring landscape futures motivated his award-winning MArch design studio ‘This Enduring Landscape’. He is also a visiting critic.

Current research practice-led research explores how often-overlooked heritage infrastructures in the North East of England might be reconfigured to provide alternative, regionally focused solutions to the global climate crisis. This research is bounded within broader, cross disciplinary explorations of alternative methods of farming, land occupation and socio-political strategies.

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Key Publications

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The Necessity of Non-Linear and Experimental Architectural Practice in the Age of Financial Uncertainty, Young, S., Roberts, S. 8 Jan 2026, Co-producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism, Glasgow, Urban Studies Foundation (USF)
Caring for Architecture: A provocation, Roberts, S., Young, S. 9 Jul 2025, Association of Architectural Educators 2025
The Brothers of Midas, Roberts, S., Young, S. 15 Sep 2025, Co-producing Alternative Urban Futures through Experimental Urbanism
Back to the Future: How can historic linear landscape infrastructure be re-appropriated to provide an alternative way of reconfiguring the countryside to ensure a more ecologically viable future and preserve the unique cultural heritage of the region?, Roberts, S., Young, S. 30 Mar 2024, AMPS: Prague - Heritages
Rewinding Education and Play in the North East of England: Three Architectural Projects, Roberts, S., Young, S. 26 Jul 2024, In: International Journal of Playwork Practice
Landscape Futures, Roberts, S., Young, S., Campbell, W. 5 Dec 2022
SEEDS Symposium, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Urban Center (PO), Roberts, S., Young, S. 17 Dec 2022, SEEDS
Authenticity + Engagement in Architectural Education, Elliott, B., Mackinnon, K., Roberts, S. 5 Sep 2016, 2nd Annual AAE Conference 2014 - Proceedings, Sheffield, UK, University of Sheffield
Programming the programme: pacing the curriculum in architectural education, Holgate, P., Roberts, S. Apr 2012, HEA STEM Conference