Fiona Smith

Designer/Researcher

Fiona joined Social Life in September 2024. As a Geographer and a trained Urban Designer, Fiona brings experience working in regeneration and engagement.

Her professional ethos centres around research-led urban design, with a passion for understanding the place-based needs of women, girls and young people. She has explored this interest by running body mapping workshops for the London Festival of Architecture and through working with Make Space for Girls.

Fiona holds a MSc in Urban Design and City Planning from UCL, where her research thesis focused on the relationship between the form, flexibility and sociability of new build suburban estates. The thesis built on her studies in Human Geography, where her dissertation explored the relationship between corporate and urban social sustainability of housebuilders and their developments.