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Professor Haim Yacobi has been selected as the 2026 Distinguished Richard Saivetz ’69 Lecture in Architecture at the Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis University.

The initiative will be hosted by University College London and led by Dr. Daniel Oviedo at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, coordinating a global consortium of researchers and practitioners.

A major new study by UCL researchers has revealed the challenges faced by London’s 1.3m night workers, including pay inequality, health problems, safety concerns and a lack of workplace dignity.

Hanadi Samhan successfully defends thesis on ‘Voluminous exile: The scaffolded verticality of Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps’.

CatalyticAction, founded by The Bartlett Development Planning Unit alumni Joana Dabaj and Riccardo Luca Conti, has won an ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Award, celebrating the future of architecture.

Prof. Adriana Allen has received an Honoris Causa Doctorate from National University of Mar del Plata in recognition of her international contributions and sterling career in just urbanisation.

Jonas Le Thierry D’Ennequin has successfully defended his doctoral thesis that the concepts of accretion & friction are useful for analysing the interactions of models of waste infrastructure.

On 23 June, the hybrid roundtable discussed major shifts in international development and their impact on careers, funding and future sector opportunities.

Dr Banerjee has received the prestigious award for her project, Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decentre urban knowledge.

Catalina Pollak Williamson has successfully defended her doctoral thesis, which introduces Radical Play as a conceptual and methodological framework for rethinking urban transformation.

UCL confirms new Senior Academic, Research and Teaching appointments, effective 01 October 2025.

A new report from DPU has found that despite their strong interest in urban issues, young people face significant barriers to engagement in formal governance processes.

The Urban Design Otherwise 2025 pamphlet — In-out[side]: Rethinking Urban Networks for Transformative Action in Pelican House — is now available for download.

Said Mahathir has successfully defended his thesis that the distribution and network of Muslim religious spaces reflect broader socio-political and economic dynamics.

Izni Bin Noor Azalie has recently defended his thesis that develops an Integrated Islamic Halal Governmentality model which is formulated to achieve fair and just halal governance.