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DPU announces YUP Project launch
The Bartlett Development Planning Unit announces the launch of a new research project YUP (Co-producing Youth Inclusive Digital Urban Governance) and a poster competition on the topic “Young People’s Role in the City”…
Development Planning Unit
Professor Le-Yin Zhang presents at World Habitat Day 2023
DPU’s Professor Le-Yin Zhang was invited to attend World Habitat Day 2023 in Baku, Azerbaijan earlier this month. The theme for this year’s World Habitat Day was ‘Resilient urban economies. Cities as drivers of growth and recovery’.…
Development Planning Unit
Dr Liza Griffin and Dr Gemma Moore awarded Knowledge Exchange Grant for healthy parks
Congratulations to DPU’s Dr Liza Griffin who, alongside joint collaborator Dr Gemma Moore from IEDE has been awarded Knowledge Exchange funding for a project entitled "Co-producing an Online Platform for the Healthy Parks Framework”.…
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PhD student, Nour Gazarin successfully defends thesis on transport and women’s empowerment
Congratulations to Nour Gazarin who has successfully defended her thesis, ‘Exploring The Relationship Between Transport Accessibility and Women’s Empowerment in Informal Settlements in Cairo'…
Development Planning Unit
DPU PhD student successfully defends thesis on investigating the politics of policy learning
Congratulations to Jing Zhang who has successfully defended her thesis, ‘Investigating the Politics of Policy Learning: The Industrial Park Programme in Ethiopia and its Engagement with China’…
Development Planning Unit
Students publish policy briefs to advance just sanitation across urban Africa
Environment and Sustainable Development MSc students, as part of the learning alliance with the action-research project OVERDUE, have published four policy briefs to advance just sanitation in the city of Mwanza, Tanzania.…
Development Planning Unit
Advocacy campaign 'We C.R.A.V.E Just Sanitation for African Cities' launched
The research project, OVERDUE: Tackling the Sanitation Taboo has launched an advocacy campaign themed 'We C.R.A.V.E Just Sanitation for African Cities'.…
Development Planning Unit
DPU PhD alumna wins RTPI Award for Research Excellence 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Valbrun who has won the prestigious Early Career Researcher Award for her thesis, 'Land, disasters, and built-environment professionals: Examining urban design for post-disaster reconstruction'…
Development Planning Unit
DPU's Catalina Ortiz awarded UCL Global Engagement Funds (GEF)
The engagement was awarded £5k from UCL’s Global Engagement Funds for the project titled 'Pedagogies of territorial reparation: Co-producing ‘Neighborhoods of Peace’ in Medellin’s Territorial Planning'…
Development Planning Unit
Policy briefs from DPU summerlab 2022 series in São Paulo published
A policy brief has been produced from a participatory research in São Paulo exploring linkages between sanitation and the SDGs led by DPU's Dr Pascale Hofmann in collaboration with FESPSP and research fellow Lourenço Capriglione (MSc ESD alumnus)…
Development Planning Unit