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How can technology improve humanitarian response?
Dr Adam Dennett and David Concannon joined the panel discussions at More London Riverside on Wednesday 17 May for an event on technology and humanitarian response co-hosted by CASA.…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
The Institute for Global Prosperity is delighted to announce the launch of the ESRC-funded RELIEF
The Institute for Global Prosperity is delighted to announce the launch of the ESRC-funded RELIEF (Refugees, Education, Learning, Information Technology, and Entrepreneurship for the Future) Centre…
UCL Institute for Global Prosperity
UCL Institute for Global Prosperity launches new research centre with ESRC
Professor Henrietta Moore, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity Director, has launched a new research centre with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to improve the prosperity of Lebanon.…
Faculty of the Built Environment
Bartlett PhD student installation ‘Space of Refuge’ to open at London gallery
'Space of Refuge' by Bartlett PhD student Samar Maqusi is an installation based on the study of Palestinian refugee camps. It opens at the P21 Gallery in London on 10 March 2017.…
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Professor Moore and Dr Mintchev on on super-diversity and prosperity
Professor Moore and Dr Mintchev on on super-diversity and prosperity. 18 November 2016. Is it possible for culturally diverse communities to flourish? Do diversity and immigration always hinder social prosperity as suggested by much of the recent…
UCL Institute for Global Prosperity
'Human, Economic and Social Flows beyond Crisis' programme begins
DPU and the Humanitarian Affairs Team of Save the Children UK are delighted to announce their new programme "Human, Economic and Social Flows beyond Crisis: Understanding the Urbanitarian".…
Development Planning Unit
Faculty Materialisation Grant 2016 awarded to ‘Refugee Cities: the Actual Spaces of Migration’
We are delighted to announce that the DPU led interdisciplinary 'Refugee Cities' research project has received the Faculty Materialisation Grant 2016.…
Development Planning Unit
Borders and camps - Life at the edge of Europe
Borders and camps - Life at the edge of Europe. 30 June 2016. There is no doubt that borders are as contested, fragile and unstable as the political, legislative and normative agreements surrounding them. Following the results of the referendum,…
Development Planning Unit
Borders and camps - Setting an initial research agenda
Borders and camps - Setting an initial research agenda. 19 April 2016. Makeshift camps, created in various and dynamically changing locations across Europe (near and within cities, ports, forests, borders), have become an integral part of the…
Development Planning Unit
Is social integration the approach for connecting refugees and asylum seekers to cities?
Is social integration the approach for connecting refugees and asylum seekers to cities? 9 February 2016. In the face of increasing forced migration, cities have the imperative to deal with refugees and asylum seekers. Their presence in contemporary…
Development Planning Unit