- Our three 2021-22 pilot projects are supporting 11 cross-disciplinary collaborations across UCL
- The 2021-22 call was supported by generous funding from the UCL Faculties of Engineering Sciences, Institute of Education, Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Population Health Sciences, and Social & Historical Sciences
Are e-scooters contributing to transport-related social exclusion? Mapping supply practices in London’s micro mobility pilot (£10K)
The project aims to leverage the concept of transport-related social exclusion (TRSE), as an entry point for a dialogue with market, state, and civil society actors about their practices and how these practices lead to intended or unintended social impacts. It will map social and spatial inequalities associated with the provision of urban transport service disruptions brought about by the adoption of e-scooters as part of Transport for London’s (TfL) trial in London, and identifying their potential to sustainably address transport-related social exclusion (TRSE), while securing necessary partnerships to co-produce knowledge and foster innovation. Further details
Overcoming Syndemic Urbanism: Health, Vulnerability and Communities’ Resilience (OverSyn) ( £10K)
The main objective of this project is to support a pilot study and a new interdisciplinary collaboration between a social scientist specialising in urban studies (Yacobi), an epidemiologist (Fottrell) and a medical anthropologist (Nkhata). The pilot aims to conceptually develop the notion of Syndemic Urbanism as both theoretical and methodological lenses through which urban health and interventions should be understood. Syndemic urbanism, we propose, focuses on how urban-spatial elements influence the accumulation of several health conditions and how these are experienced in an urban context. Further details
Off-world living analogue pilot projects: determining their value for the far and near future (£10K)
This project explores the interdisciplinary potential of analogue environments created principally for off-world living. This project is designed to bring together UCL’s diverse academic community interested in the challenges of future living under very challenging and radically different conditions to those with which we are familiar. The project will consider the role and design of analogues to aid our learning and understanding of how to live off-world. This will create a robust evidence base for anticipated future large scale collaborative analogue research projects and funding. Further details