Research projects

Project PI is Prof. Rainer Kattel

Multiscale Approaches and Scalability within Climate Change – Heritage Risk Assessment

Examine the evolving role of the natural environment in planning theory, policy and practice.

Odeuropa examined how smells shaped European life from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, analysing scent references in text and image collections to show why olfactory heritage matters.

GreenHer will support sustainable heritage management, improve understanding of cultural assets and respond to major European policy priorities.

Exploring how communities sustain the sensory and embodied knowledge of bellringing and bellfounding, creating tools to record and safeguard intangible heritage.

Exploring temporal and adaptable place-making in times of crisis, uncertainties and disruptions.

This multi-year research project evaluates low-cost, building-scale heat adaptation measures for vulnerable populations in urban and rural Pakistan through randomised controlled trials.

A research project examining the historical evolution of high streets to understand their embedded potential as central places for health and wellbeing beyond shopping.

This research extends space syntax methods by collaborating with disabled creatives to map their spatial experiences and identify what enables inclusive participation.

This ESRC-funded project explores how 15-minute city principles can be adapted to support sustainable travel in regional towns and outer metropolitan areas across Europe.

Expressions of Interest Invited for Small Grant Development Program for ECRs, Technical and Research Support Staff

This ESRC-funded project investigates the rise of sub-sized homes in England, asking whether very small dwellings can ever be adequate and liveable places to call home.

Two projects advancing the research agenda on energy justice in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through Citizen Assemblies and academic debate.

Research collaborations pursuing inclusive approaches to cities after dark – shaping policy, practice and public debate on the social, cultural and economic life of urban nights.