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DPU's morning breakfast conversations
The DPU hosts a series of breakfast conversations with each of our staff members. The DPU Breakfasts series provides the opportunity to get an insight into the research work undertaken by our academic staff.
- 2023-24
Engaging with urban obsolescence: the wherefores and whereabouts of a design research agenda
Giorgio Talocci (hosted by Matan Flum)
24 January 2024Urban value: if it is so important, why can’t we find it?
Colin Marx (hosted by Javier Jileta)
13 December 2023
- 2022-23
Revisiting the role of the state in urban development in the Middle East
Dr Azadeh Mashayekhi (hosted by Hanadi Samhan)
9 March 2023Out of place, out of time: Of displacement, breakdown, and other stories
Dr Giovanna Astolfo (hosted by Laia García Fernández)
24 February 2023Critical Urban Design: does it still exist? Discussing the politics of lifelines in precarious times
Prof Camillo Boano (hosted by Said Mahathir)
22 November 2022The Horn of Africa: persistent challenges; distant solutions. The search for strategies to address climate change, drought and conflict
Prof Michael Walls (hosted by Dr Amina-Bahja Ekman)
19 October 2022
- 2021-22
Drivers of development in Somaliland and beyond
Dr. Jama Musse Jama and Dr. Amina-Bahja Ekman
24 February 2022Calibrating risk, performing purpose: gendered encounters of street ethnography
Dr Paroj Banerjee
24 November 2021What is a good city at night? Re-thinking the role of night-time economies for development
Dr Alessio Kolioulis
3 November 2021
- 2020-21 (DPU Tea webinar series)
Conflict Politics as Means to Developmentalism
Dr Raktim Ray
11 March 2020Reinventing the Wheel? Learning from History on Urban Mental Health
Prof. Carolyn Stephens
23 February 2020From gender planning to gender transformation
Prof. Caroline Moser
10 February 2020
- 2019-20
Studying climate change actions: from UNFCCC to China and Foucault
Prof. Le-Yin Zhang
27 February 2020Engendering urban resilience through a focus on 'the everyday'
Dr Jordana Ramalho
12 February 2020The City as a Political Construct: Rules, Exceptions and Insurgencies
Jorge Fiori
5 December 2019Urban mobility and the challenge of achieving sustainable and inclusive accessibility: insights from research in Latin America and Africa
Dr. Daniel Oviedo Hernandez
21 November 2019Models, Myths, and Mixed Methods: Challenges and Opportunities of using Economic Analysis to Understand Cities in the Global South
Dr. Alexandra Panman
17 October 2019- 2018-19
Sedenterization versus urbanization: A blessing Or a curse for African nomads
Dr. Zeremariam Fre
14 March 2019Trajectories of urban water poverty in Dar es Salaam
Dr. Pascale Hofmann
28 February 2019Load shedding and researcher positionality: Doing ethnography in a small African town
Dr. Don Brown
7 February 2019Learning into a new Moral Economy: Insights from California, Lagos and personal experience
Dr. Naji Makarem
22 November 2018When crises overwhelm our societies: the case for recovering hope as a social force
Dr. Étienne von Bertrab
18th November 2018The capability approach to city making: Reflecting on writing ‘Cities for Human Development’
Dr. Alexandre Apsan Frediani
11th October 2018- 2017-18
The Economics Of Urban Land Markets: Implications For Spatial Justice
Dr. Colin Marx
1st February 2018The Crisis Of Civilisation And The Quest For A New Food Regime
Dr. Robert Biel
30th November 2017The Personal Is The Political: Thoughts On Conflict And Planning
Prof. Haim Yacobi
12th October 2017- 2016-17
Negotiating Boundaries: Journeys Around Activism And Academia
Dr. Barbara Lipietz
16th March 2016Multiple Hats: Can You Be A Scholar, Planner, And Citizen At Once?
Dr. Catalina Ortiz
23rd February 2017Material Politics And Why They Matter In Urban Planning
Dr. Vanesa Castán Broto
19th January 2017From Refugee Camps To Philosophy'
Dr. Camillo Boano
8th December 2016'Community And Informality - Tales From The Global North'
Dr. Liza Griffin
20th October 2016'The Joys And Tribulations Of Being A DPU Director'
Prof. Julio Davila
6th October 2016- 2015-16
Institutional learning on securing domestic workers’ rights: what role can an external project evaluator play?
Julian Walker
25th February 2016Conducting research ‘in place’: positionality and epistemology research work in India, South Africa and London
Dr. Kamna Patel
11th February 2016How can research contribute to state-building in post conflict contexts: The case of Somaliland
Dr. Michael Walls
3rd February 2016