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- Director
Clare Melhuish
- Director of UCL Urban Laboratory
- Senior Research Associate
University-led urban regeneration; Modern Movement architectural heritage and social identity; domestic space and cultures; ethnography of architectural design practice; curating the city - Centre Manager
Jordan Rowe
- Co-Directors
Pushpa Arabindoo
- Senior Lecturer in Geography and Urban Design
Urbanization, public space and political activism in India; cities and climate change. Matthew Beaumont
- Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature
Night-time city; utopia in fiction writing; urban representations; thinking the city. Camillo Boano
- Professor of Urban Design and Critical Theory
Urban development, contested urbanism, socio-spatial dialectics, design and urban transformations, and shelter and housing reconstruction in geographies of the global south. Ben Campkin
- Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory
Urban decline and 'regeneration' in London; housing, including early twentieth century slum clearances, and the representation and redevelopment of modernist mass housing; LGBTQI nightlife space; and the uses of images in urban change. Ellie Cosgrave
- Lecturer in Urban Innovation and Director of UCL City Leadership Laboratory
Urban and local governance; city leadership; engineering design; smart cities; sustainable urban environments; choreographing the city. Andrew Harris
- Senior Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies
Art, space and the city; creative cities; gentrification; urban infrastructure; vertical urbanism. Jennifer Robinson
- Professor of Human Geography
South Africa, including studies of segregation and state power; the politics of urban development; comparative urbanism; city strategies and the circulation of urban policy. - Steering Committee
Yasminah Beebeejaun
- Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning
Race and territorialisation, decision-making processes, community organising, nationhood debates, colonisalism Sarah Bell
- Professor of Environment Engineering
Sustainability of urban water systems, particularly social and policy factors as they relate to engineering; community engagement with engineering and infrastructure provision Claire Colomb
- Reader in Planning and Urban Sociology
Urban governance, policies and politics, European spatial planning, and urban sociology Adam Drazin
- Teaching Fellow in Anthropology
Culture, materials and design Murray Fraser
- Professor of Architecture and Global Culture
Design, architectural history & theory, urbanism, and cultural studies Alexandre Apsan Frediani
- Lecturer in Development Planning
Housing and squatter settlement upgrading; participatory approaches to research, planning and design; social movements and right to the city; urban regeneration and well-being; human development and the capability approach Kalliopi Fouseki
- Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Heritage
Museology, cultural heritage, anthropology, reception studies, heritage management and public archaeology Haidy Geismar
- Professor of Anthropology
Intellectual and cultural property, indigenous rights, new forms of cultural representation, the anthropology of art, critical museology and the South Pacific Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
- Lecturer in Social Theory
Political sociology, nationalism studies, radical imagination and speculative futures, financialisation, risk and debt practices, housing movements Susanne Kuechler
- Professor of Art and Anthropology
Art and memory, material translation, new materials and new technologies, sustainable development Barbara Lipietz
- Lecturer in Development Planning
Urban governance, participatory governance and planning through co-production; circulation and localisation of public policy; anti-poverty strategies; inclusive cities and the 'right to the city', sustainable cities, resilient cities; housing policy, slum upgrading practices, urban regeneration Susan Moore
- Lecturer in Planning
Sustainable urban development processes and practices; Relational geographies of urban (and suburban) development and built form Michał Murawski
- Assistant Professor in Critical Area Studies
Architecture and planning of Eastern European communism; social condensers; Warsaw and Moscow; curatorial and art practice methodologies Florian Mussgnug
- Reader in Italian and Comparative Literature
Catastrophe and apocalypse in comparative literature, including climate change fiction, cold war culture and existential risk; Rome James O'Leary
- Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Innovative Technology
Contemporary Art & Architecture, Situated Practices, Critical Spatial Practice, Narrative Spaces, Urban Memory, Contested Space Kieren Reed
- Lecturer in Fine Art
Sculpture, performance, installation, public art, culture-led regeneration Rafael Schacter
- Research Fellow in Anthropology
Independent public art; street art and graffiti; visual culture; vernacular art; popular politics; public sphere; anthropology of art; material culture Helena Titheridge
- Professor of Mobility and Sustainable Transport
Sustainable systems, transport planning - Artist in Residence
- Tom Wolseley (2015/16)
- Max Colson (2014/15)
- Rab Harling (2013/14)
- B.J. Nilsen (2012)
- Carolyn Deby (2011/12)
- International Advisory Board
- Professor Michele Acuto (University of Melbourne)
- Dr İpek Akpınar (Istanbul Technical University)
- Professor Karen Bakker (University of British Columbia)
- Professor Stephen Barber (Kingston University)
- Professor Neil Brenner (Harvard University)
- Professor Mustafa Dikec (École d'urbanisme de Paris)
- Dr Paul Dobraszczyk (Researcher and author)
- Mr Michael Edwards (University College London)
- Professor Adrian Forty (University College London)
- Professor Susanne Frank (TU Dortmund University)
- Professor Jane M. Jacobs (Yale-NUS College)
- Professor Roger Keil (York University, Toronto)
- Professor Patrick LeGales (Sciences Po Paris)
- Professor Jorge Francisco Liernur (Torcuato Di Tella University)
- Professor Julia Lossau (University of Bremen)
- Professor Ayodeji Olukoju (Caleb University, Lagos)
- Dr Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao (Terreform Centre for Advanced Urban Research)
- Dr Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)
- Dr Matti Siemiatycki (University of Toronto)
- Professor AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)
- Professor Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester University)
- Dr Karen Till (National University of Ireland Maynooth)
- Visiting Researchers
Current researchers
- Dr Rebecca Ross
- Dr Felipe Lanuza Rilling
Past visiting researchers- Dr Rodrigo Firmino
- Dr Beatrice de Carli
- Professor Christian Schmid
- Jeong Hye Kim
- Dr Eduardo Canteros
- Dr Andy Merrifield
- Professor Thea Brejzek
- Dr Robin Kim
- Dr Anna Mayr
- Dr Aditya Mohanty
- Professor Susan Parnell
- Dr Maider Uriarte Idiazabal
- Students
Current Urban Laboratory affiliated PhDs:
- Nicola Antaki
- Sigi Atteneder
- Mohammed Bakkali
- Jae-Sung Chon
- Killian Doherty
- Raffaella Fryer-Moreira
- Pooya Ghoddousi
- Kristen Hartmann
- Charlotte Jones
- Fani Kostourou
- Leah Lovett
- Laura Marshall
- Hamish Muir
- Aaron Mo
- Braulio Morera
- Ana Maria Muñoz Boudet
- ThienVinh Nguyen
- Giles Omezi
- Dimitris Panayotopoulos
- Enora Robin
- Vicente Sandoval
- Alexia Sawyer
- Justinien Tribillon
- Claire Malaika Tunnacliffe
- Adam Walls
- Saffron Woodcraft
Recently completed PhDs
- Dr Johan Andersson
- Dr Sabina Andron
- Dr Tom Bolton
- Dr Katy Beinart
- Dr John Bingham-Hall
- Dr Brent Carnell
- Dr Pei Sze Chow
- Dr David Gissen
- Dr Mohamad Hafeda
- Dr Sophie Handler
- Dr Clare Herrick
- Dr Joseph Hillier
- Dr Sandra Jasper
- Dr Karolina Kendall-Bush
- Dr Regan Koch
- Dr Torsten Lange
- Dr Lucrezia Lennert
- Dr Samuel Merrill
- Dr Leandro Minuchin
- Dr Louis Moreno
- Dr Hiroaki Ohashi
- Dr Alexandra Parsons
- Dr Alex Pavey
- Dr Regner Ramos
- Dr David Roberts
- Dr Melanie Brickman Stynes
- Dr Myfanwy Taylor
- Dr Tse-Hui Teh
- Dr Ophelie Véron
- Dr Valerie Viehoff
- Dr Astrid Wood
- Dr Stamatis Zografos