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 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…
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…
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,…
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.…
The ESRC-funded project Jam and Justice: Co-Producing Urban Governance for Social Innovation is now close to completion, and alongside a series of collaborative events the team has now released its findings in a major report. How…
In response to the increasingly complex development challenges posed by today’s cities, the ESRC-funded Building Capacity for the Future City in Developing Countries (PEAK) seeks to foster a new approach to urban policy making and research…
The PEAK Urban (Building Capacity for the Future City in Developing Countries) programme, a multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers in China, Colombia, India, South Africa and the UK, now features more than 40 interviews with team members…
The Public Accountability to Residents in Contractual Urban Redevelopment (PARCOUR) project, a three-year collaborative project between the University of the West of England (USW), the University of Amsterdam and Universidade de São Paulo, has now been…
The Jam & Justice Action Research Collective are getting to ready to share findings and wider lessons, and celebrate the outcomes of our projects in Greater Manchester. Places are limited, so register now to reserve a place here.…