Conventional analyses of crime, based on European research models, are often poorly suited to assessing the specific dimensions of criminality in Africa. Development Frontiers in Crime, Livelihoods and Urban Poverty in Nigeria (FCLP) aims to provide an alternative…
Conventional analyses of crime, based on European research models, are often poorly suited to assessing the specific dimensions of criminality in Africa. Development Frontiers in Crime, Livelihoods and Urban Poverty in Nigeria (FCLP) aims to provide an alternative…
This blog, authored by Judith Mbabazi and Teddy Kisembo, describes the work of the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) project in Kampala, Uganda. This is part of its collaborative work with local organisations in cities…
This blog, authored by Emmanuel Osuteye, Camila Cociña, Barbara Lipietz, Alexandre Apsan Frediani of the the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) project, showcases the outcomes of a recent workshop in Thailand with its partner, the Asian Coalition…
The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), originally founded in 2014 with a five-year ESRC grant, recently received further ESRC funding to continue its important work until 2024. In this blog Rhiannon Law highlights some of the…
In this blog, reposted from the Urban Brain website, Nikolas Rose describes the outcomes of a recent meeting of the Urban Brain Lab: Mental Health, Migration and the Megacity (M3) team at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland.…
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…
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…
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. …
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