DPU's Catalina Ortiz participates at 2019 World Human Rights Cities Forum

Dr Catalina Ortiz was invited to the 2019 World Human Rights Cities Forum, held in the city of Gwangju, Korea (Sept 30 – Oct 3), to be part of the Special Session on the Right to Housing in Asia.…

DPU collaborate with SDI and urbaMonde to launch a mobile phone photography competition

The competition, #ChangeOurPicture, is open to anyone who lives in an informal settlement in Africa.…

KNOW Dialogues in Urban Equality #11 - Trajectories of sanitation poverty in Dar es Salaam

KNOW Dialogues in Urban Equality #11 - Trajectories of sanitation poverty in Dar es Salaam. 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, 01 October 2019. Event Information. Open to. All. Organiser. David Heymann. 07734376547. Location. 115 Galton LT. 1-19 Torrington Place,…

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DPU staff participate at the RC21 conference in Delhi

The 2019 edition of the conference, held in Delhi, titled “In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures” featured contributions from DPU’s Dr Catalina Ortiz and Prof. Camillo Boano as well as DPU PhD…

‘Map-making by City-makers’: DPU research nominated for UCL’s #MadeAtUCL initiative

We are excited that the action-research conducted in Lima as part of ReMapRisk and cLIMA sin Riesgo has been selected as “one of the top 100 stories of disruptive discoveries from UCL” and will be exhibited at the #MadeAtUCL festival on 5th…

Knowledge for disrupting risk in Freetown- MSc ESD and SLURC collaborative outputs launched online

We are happy to share the outputs produced by the co-learning alliance between SLURC and the Practice Module of the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development fieldwork in the form of thematic policy briefs and videos.…

DPU welcomes new lecturer Dr Alexandra Panman

We are delighted to welcome Dr Alexandra Panman to the DPU. Alexandra will teach the module ‘An Introduction to Public Economics and Public Policy’, part of the MSc Urban Economic Development…

8th DPU60th Anniversary PhD scholarship awarded to Mariajosé Nieto

Mariajosé Nieto is an economist by training and intends to study how informal and grass-roots transport alternatives are reconfiguring the mobility of people living in urban areas of Bogotá marked by limited coverage of public transport.…

DPU PhD student Ariana Markowitz presented Crosby Hall Fellowship in Geneva

Congratulations to DPU student Ariana Markowitz was presented with the Crosby Hall Fellowship in Geneva on 25 July at the Centenary Celebration of Graduate Women International (GWI).…