Geraldine Dening is a founder member of ASH (Architects for Social Housing), a qualified architect with her own practice based in London, and a senior lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she teaches in the BA and MArch architecture programmes. She was recently shortlisted for the Peabody Housing small projects panel competition in collaboration with Sam Causer. Her projects include the RIBA award winning Lauriston Primary School, Hackney, 2013, with Meadowcroft Griffin Architects and the ASH-organised Open Garden Estates in June 2015, which aimed to dispel common myths about council estates.