‘In the 10 years to April 2018, the proportion of private renters in the 35 to 54-years-old category has almost doubled and now accounts for 41 per cent (up from 23 per cent).’ The UK Collaborative…
In this blog Wei Zheng and Cecilia Wong, based at the Department of Planning & Environmental Management at the Manchester Urban Institute, described some of the key findings of the ESRC-funded project Eco-Urbanisation: Promoting Sustainable Development…
As urban food insecurity attracts growing interest in policy debates, Cecilia Tacoli – Principal Investigator of the project How the Urban Poor Define and Measure Food Insecurity and Nutrition – makes the case for ensuring that the…
This blog by Varun Patil, a researcher on the project Learning from Small Cities: Governing Imagined Futures and the Dynamics of Change in India’s Smart Urban Age, outlines Jalandhar’s planned reinvention as a ‘smart city’, focused…
This blog by Ayona Datta, Principal Investigator of the project Learning from Small Cities: Governing Imagined Futures and the Dynamics of Change in India’s Smart Urban Age, outlines the hopes and aspirations of Shimla as it…
The Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), together with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), are pleased to invite proposals to the UKRI-NHMRC Built Environment Prevention Research Scheme. This…
The UK Centre Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is now fielding applications for its Policy Fellows Programme. This is designed to provide senior and mid-career civil servants and policy/practice professionals an opportunity to explore areas…
The rapidly growing number of people moving into cities all over the world presents a challenge of unprecedented size. It is crucial to find ways to make urbanisation a source for wealth, health and sustainability –…
This blog by Gillian Rose explores the challenges of making smart cities more inclusive and the findings of her ESRC-funded project, Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes. One of the main outputs of…
COMPAS invites applications for a Policy and Programme Manager position to work on the Oxford Martin Programme on Informal Cities, to be based at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of…
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