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More than 120 projects sit with the Urban Transformations portfolio. These cover a range of topics and places and so the easiest way to find what you are looking for is to use the filter function below:

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TAPESTRY: Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments

Duration: 12/18 - 11/21

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TAPESTRY: Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments is an innovative project that examines how progressive change can help drive climate change adaptation and resilience. Focusing on vulnerable coastal…

Mental Health Literacy in Urban and Rural Communities in Kerala, India: An Interdisciplinary Approach Using Applied Theatre Methodology

Duration: 09/18 – 02/21

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Mental Health Literacy in Urban and Rural Communities in Kerala, India: An Interdisciplinary Approach Using Applied Theatre Methodology is a collaborative research programme exploring the use of participatory theatre and media as tool to improve mental…

Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Cities

Duration: 10/18 - 09/23

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Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Cities is an ESRC-funded project based at the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. Drawing on the results from earlier research, this project seeks to inform the design and delivery of urban climate…

Tackling Fire in Informal Urban Settlements: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Duration: 01/18 - 12/20

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Around a billion people across the world live in shack settlements where fire outbreaks pose a constant threat to life, health and property. In a context where many residents lack access to electricity and the absence…

Sensing Bodies: Urban Exposure and Asthma in Delhi, India

Duration: 09/18 – 09/21

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Air pollution poses increasing risks to residents of developing cities, particularly those belonging to marginalised or low income groups, and is especially acute in urban areas of India. Sensing Bodies: Urban Exposure and Asthma in Delhi,…

Building the Barricades: An interdisciplinary Study on Mental and Substance Use Disorders in the Context of Armed Violence in Brazil

Duration: 09/18 – 03/21

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In the Complex of Maré, an assortment of 16 peripheral communities on the margins of Rio de Janeiro, residents must contend with the daily reality of violence at the hands not only of local criminal gangs,…

The Moveable NEXUS: Design-led Sustainable Water, Food and Energy Management within the New Boundary

Duration: 06/18 – 05/21

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In an age of climate change, cities are particularly vulnerable to pressures on their food, water and energy resources. The Moveable NEXUS: Design-led Sustainable Water, Food and Energy Management within the New Boundary aims to support…

Governance and the Local Integration of Migrants and Europe’s Refugees (GLIMER)

Duration: 10/17 – 09/20

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The ongoing migration of people from conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria into the EU is routinely described as a crisis. Governance and the Local Integration of Migrants and Europe’s Refugees (GLIMER) explores how…

The Experience of ‘Ageing in Place’ over Time: A Longitudinal Perspective

Duration: 03/18 - 08/19

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‘Ageing in place’ policies have become increasingly common as a means to provide the growing number of older urban residents with both personal autonomy and community support in the cities in which they live. To date,…

Development Frontiers in Crime, Livelihoods and Urban Poverty in Nigeria (FCLP)

Duration: 01/18 - 02/19

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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…

Shock Tactics: Urban Health Futures in the Wake of Ebola

Duration: 04/18 - 04/21

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The rapid growth of developing cities, including informal settlements with little or no access to public service provision, poses increasing health challenges. Overcrowding, exclusion and lack of information in particular create conditions that have contributed to…

Security on the Move: Everyday Security of IDPs in Rapidly Growing Somali Cities

Duration: 10/17 – 03/19

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While the interplay between violent conflict and drought in Somalia is a central driver of internal displacement in the country, the resulting in-migration to cities creates further pressures on urban and rural environments. Security on the…

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