Our clusters vary in size and approach. They engage in a collaborative dialogue to clarify a new research theme or focus on the development of specific research ideas. They contribute to the filling of some of the most significant gaps in academic writings and play a key role in strengthening existing and new collaborations within and outside the School.
Explore our research clusters
Alternative Urbanisms
Exploring temporal and adaptable place-making in times of crisis, uncertainties and disruptions.
China Planning Research Group
Promoting advancement, collaboration and knowledge transfer of planning research and practices for achieving China’s sustainable urban future.
Post-Growth Planning
This cluster explores the question of growth in response to a growing interest in what this means for issues central to planning such as the provision of transport, infrastructure and housing.
Community Engaged Planning Research Cluster
A platform for research collaborations and knowledge exchange, exploring the ethics and methods for co-producing research with communities.
Critical Dialogues in Comparative Urbanism
This cluster expands on the established 'Critical Dialogues' collaborative partnership with the University of Toronto.
Real Estate Markets and their Regulation
This research cluster is grounded in the economic/financial analysis of real estate markets to assess and analyse to which extent markets deliver equal, diverse and inclusive outcomes.
Everyday Economies
Exploring alternative conceptualisations of the economy and space/place.
Financialisation of Urban development and its Alternatives [FUDA]
The FUDA cluster critically examines the impacts of financialisation on people and places.
Health Citizenship
Pursuing a new sphere of research around urban health and democratic governance.
Infrastructure and Sustainable Development
This research cluster aims to bring together BSP and wider UCL staff to develop leading research in infrastructure planning.
Innovation in Planning Education
This research cluster aims to bring together and boost BSP’s research and activities on planning education and pedagogy.
Nature-Based Planning
Examine the evolving role of the natural environment in planning theory, policy and practice.
Planning systems and planning reform
A forum to discuss, explore and disseminate knowledge and critical perspectives on planning reform.
Urban Design Research Group
The Urban Design Research Group (UDRG) focuses on better understanding and deploying the theories, processes, practices, actors and pedagogies of urban design.
Urban Mobility
This cluster develops leading-edge research on urban mobility, a specialism over decades at The Bartlett School of Planning.