This blog by Professor Michael Keith, Coordinator of the Urban Transformations portfolio and PI of the Building Capacity for the Future City in Developing Countries (PEAK) project, is reposted from the PEAK Urban website. The hubris…
The Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Third Biennial Conference will be held in Brighton, United Kingdom on 24-26 June 2020 on the theme of ‘Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration‘. POLLEN 2020 is organized by the ESRC STEPS…
The UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is co-hosting with the WISERD Wales Housing Research Network, Shelter Cymru and the Welsh Government the Wales Housing Research Conference 2020. Housing and homelessness are high on the…
This blog, authored by Paula Meth and drawing on the writings of her collaborators and findings of the ESRC-funded project Living the Urban Periphery: Investment, Infrastructure and Economic Change in African City-Regions, presents some of the…
The ESRC has announced an interdisciplinary joint call, ‘Understanding and Addressing Health and Social Challenges for Ageing in the UK and China’, which invites high quality proposals between researchers in the UK and China which aim…
This extract from the book Urban Energy Landscapes by Vanesa Castán Broto, published in April 2019 by Cambridge University Press and drawing on the research of the ESRC-funded Mapping Urban Energy Landscapes (MUEL) in the Global…
The ESRC-funded Transforming Construction Network Plus (N+) is hosting its 2019 Annual Conference, ‘Creating a Movement for Change‘, on Thursday 19 September at the Royal Society in London. This one-day conference seeks to stimulate new perspectives,…
As the ESRC-funded project Cities of Making nears completion, the team has partnered with Cosmopolis and Building Brussels to host a series of events, from 6-11 September 2019, aimed at contributing to new ways of thinking…
The recently completed ESRC-funded project Security on the Move: Everyday Security of IDPs in Rapidly Growing Somali Cities concluded its work with a series of photo exhibitions in Somalia, Kenya, Norway and the UK. Focusing on…
With design quality high on the agenda for government and the housing industry, research by UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is exploring how design value is delivered at each stage in the development process.…
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