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Our team is dedicated to challenging current paradigms of short-termism, and realising pathways towards sustainable and inclusive prosperity through collaborative, cross-disciplinary research.
Academic Staff (PhD supervisors)
- Christopher Harker
Associate Professor
Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity
- Konrad Miciukiewicz
Senior Teaching Fellow
- Jacqueline McGlade
Professor of Natural Prosperity, Sustainable Development and Knowledge Systems
- Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Principal Research Fellow
- Onya Idoko
Co-Programme Lead for MSc Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Robert Costanza
Professor of Ecological Economics
- Ida Kubiszewski
Associate Professor in Global Prosperity
- Kate Maclean
Associate Professor
Director of Education
- Maurizio Marinelli
Honorary Professor
Teaching Staff
Research Staff
- Nikolay Mintchev
Senior Research Associate
Email: n.mintchev@ucl.ac.uk
- Saffron Woodcraft
Executive Lead, Prosperity Co-Lab UK (ProCol UK) and Principal Research Fellow
- Hanna Baumann
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Email: h.baumann@ucl.ac.uk
- Hannah Sender
Research Fellow
- Simon Nyokabi
Research Fellow (Ethicobots)
Email: n.nyokabi@ucl.ac.uk
- Angus Armstrong
Professorial Research Fellow
Email: angus.armstrong@ucl.ac.uk
- Fatemeh Sadeghi
Research Associate (TAKHAYYUL)
Email: f.givi@ucl.ac.uk
- Sumrin Kalia
Research Associate (TAKHAYYUL)
Email: k.sumrin@ucl.ac.uk
- Mezna Qato
Research Associate (TAKHAYYUL)
Email: m.qato@ucl.ac.uk
- Layli Uddin
Research Associate (TAKHAYYUL)
Honorary Staff
- Noreena Hertz
Noreena Hertz is a renowned thought leader with an impressive track record in predicting global trends. Her best-selling books, The Silent Takeover, IOU: The Debt Threat and Eyes Wide Open, are published in 23 countries. She advises a select group of the world's leading business and political figures on strategy, economic and geo-political risk, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, millennials and post-millennials, and sits on the board of Warner Music Group. Previously, Noreena served on Citigroup's Politics and Economics Global Advisory Board and RWE's Digital Transformation Board.
- Solveiga Pakštaitė
Honorary Lecturer
Solveiga is an inventor and entrepreneur with an industrial design background. She invented Mimica Touch, a patented temperature sensitive accurate food freshness indicator that reduces food waste and improves food safety. Solveiga is the Founder & Director of Mimica and was named MIT Technology Review's Inventor of the Year. She also is a founding board member of Fast Forward 2030 and consults on innovation projects for leading consumer and technology companies.
- Matthew Davies
Honorary Associate Professor
Dr Davies' research explores issues around prosperity, society and the environment. He is especially interested in the management of landscapes, ecological diversity, climate, and questions of sustainability, resilience and regeneration. Most of his work has focussed on agricultural systems in Eastern Africa and has examined community practice and knowledge both historically and anthropologically, often employing a perspective known as historical ecology. This has involved analyses of the spatial, material and temporal dynamics of farming systems, including understandings of soils, crops, irrigation, exchange networks and forests/vegetation. Dr Davies has also explored histories of failed external 'development' and his work is increasingly drawn towards wider analyses of food systems, agro-ecology, food sovereignity, farmer innovation and intersections with nutrition and health. His work often employs practices of physically mapping the landscape and he works closely with local Citizen Scientists within a trans-disciplinary framework. Much of this work aims to facilitate processes of co-design to reshape practice and policy.
- George Melios
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
George has completed a PhD in Economics and his research focuses on topics of applied political economy, institutions and development. He studies trust, corruption, legacies of violence and migration.
- Penny Bernstock
Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Penny Bernstock was previously Professor of Urban and Community Studies and Head of Urban and Community Studies at the University of West London and prior to this Head of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of East London and Reader in Urban Regeneration, where she led the Centre for East London Studies. She has substantial experience in the design and leadership of innovative social science informed undergraduate and post graduate programmes that are practitioner focussed and underpinned by an inclusive curriculum. She has published extensively on a range of social policy issues. She is an expert on the impact of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Project. Her current research focus is on housing and employment on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where she is exploring ways to promote good growth/inclusive regeneration that provides sustainable livelihoods for existing low-income communities in the legacy boroughs. She is currently Co-Chair of TELCO’s (founding chapter of Citizens UK) Olympic Strategy group where they are campaigning to ensure that key legacy commitments around jobs and housing are met. Her research with TELCO was utilised as an impact case study for REF 2020.
With the current focus on levelling up she argues that policy makers have much to learn from the regeneration of East London. The area has benefitted from unparalleled investment and the main beneficiaries have been professional groups. If we are to deliver regeneration that results in improved living standards, then new approaches are required such as community led and community land trust housing that is genuinely affordable and remains affordable in perpetuity.
Dr Penny Bernstock is currently working on a conference about Olympic legacies alongside ProCol UK lead Dr Saffron Woodcraft and with Urban Lab and is working with TELCO on an action Research project exploring the impact of inadequate housing on Educational Experience.
- William Hynes
Honorary Professor of Practice