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DPU's Pascale Hofmann successfully defends Eng.D thesis on 'The Dialectics of Urban Water Poverty'
Congratulations to DPU's Pascale Hofmann who has successfully defended her Eng.D thesis…
Development Planning Unit
The DPU's Catalina Ortiz awarded the Bartlett ECR GCRF funding
The DPU are delighted that Catalina Ortiz has received £110,000 of Bartlett ECR GCRF funding for her project ‘Activating Learning for Slum Upgrading: A Co-designed Storytelling Platform for Medellin’.…
Development Planning Unit
Documenting Mexico’s Geography of Hope
DPU's Étienne von Bertrab, alongside a number of DPU alumni, has founded 'Albora: Mexico’s Geography of Hope', a project that aims bring to visibility to transformative initiatives and efforts throughout the country…
Development Planning Unit
BUDD alumni initiative selected as part of Athens' selection as European Capital of Innovation 2018
The initiative, Curing the Limbo, is coordinated by BUDD alumna Stefania Gyftopoulou with a Cases Review on Social Innovation in housing for refugees for the project currently being prepared by DPU's Camillo Boano and Giovanna Astolfo…
Development Planning Unit
Urbanisation and health in the 21st century: A Southern perspective
Urbanisation and health in the 21st century: A Southern perspective. 12 November 2018. A child plays next to an open sewer in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Unhealthy living conditions are an everyday reality for one in seven of the world’s population…
Development Planning Unit
Small places, big problems: Planning healthy environments in emerging African towns
Congratulations to Donald Brown who has successfully defended his PhD thesis…
Development Planning Unit
DPU undertakes research comparing refugee resettlement schemes in the UK
In partnership with Citizens UK and under the supervision of Dr Andrea Rigon, MSc Social Development Practice students, Mahdi Alraie and Hannah Collins have analysed the new model of community sponsorship for the resettlement of refugees.…
Development Planning Unit
The DPU remembers Jockin Arputham
The DPU are saddened to hear the news that SDI president Jockin Arputham passed away over the weekend.…
Development Planning Unit
DPU welcomes applications for DPU/ACHR/CAN Fellowship – Wave V
We are pleased to begin welcoming applications for the fifth wave of our DPU/ACHR/CAN Fellowship which will take place in either Myanmar or Sri Lanka. Application deadline November 5th.…
Development Planning Unit
DPU doctoral student awarded Doctoral Grand Challenges Grant
Congratulations to DPU PhD student Cristian Olmos who has been awarded a UCL Grand Challenges Doctoral Grant, and is co-organising a seminar on the frontlines of mining conflict in the Americas…
Development Planning Unit