The University of Coventry has recently announced two fully funded 3.5 year studentships, closely linked with the WASTE FEW ULL project. These are ‘System dynamics modelling of linked circular economies‘ and ‘Agent‐based modelling of linked circular…
With over half of the population living in urban areas and the numbers increasing daily, cities are facing unprecedented demographic, environmental, economic, social and spatial challenges. That is a call to which the GCRF Centre for…
The GCRF Centre for Sustainable Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) is pleased to launch a new fund to strengthen the capacity of early career researchers to understand and address global challenges in fast-growing cities in developing countries.…
The ESRC-funded project The Economic Impacts of Brexit on the UK, its Regions, its Cities and its Sectors, recently added to the Urban Transformations portfolio, will be hosting an event in Brussels on 22 February 2019, ‘The…
This blog by Tim May, Beth Perry and Charlotte Spring was originally posted on the Jam and Justice website and describes some of the highlights from a collaborative workshop with Early Career Researchers held at the University…
What does everyday politics look like? Community researchers in Greater Manchester have been exploring this question, with cameras in hand, as part of a project co-designed by Jam & Justice’s Action Research Collective. There are some…
Originally scheduled to end in 2018, the Urban Transformations programme has received an extension from the ESRC to continue its activities until June 2020. The portfolio recently welcomed another 10 projects to the portfolio, including a…
In this blog Ken Gibb, Director of the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE), outlines some of the key priorities for the Centre’s work in 2019. This piece was originally posted on the CaCHE website. …
The University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow have announced the launch of a collaborative series of PhD studentships of ‘Future Cities’, spanning some 20 different projects exploring various areas of cutting edge urban research. The…
The CRUNCH: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices: Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a three-year JPI Urban Europe project that has recently been included in the Urban Transformations portfolio. Led by the University of Portsmouth, the research…
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