Brandon Mak is a PhD student in the Department of Geography. He trained as an architect at the University of Edinburgh between 2012-17, where he earned a BA and Master of Architecture. Subsequently, he moved to London to complete his MSc in Sustainable Cities with distinction in 2018 at King’s College London.
There, he collaborated with the Barn Owl Trust to conduct fieldwork as part of his master's thesis, which studied the influence of buildings on the microclimates of nest boxes used for barn owl conservation.