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- Director
Clare Melhuish
- Director of UCL Urban Laboratory
- Principal 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
Sophie Mepham
- Centre Manager of UCL Urban Laboratory
Cultural heritage; urban regeneration; art history; public space - Co-Directors
Pushpa Arabindoo
- Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Design
Wastelands; urbanisation, 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
Housing urbanism; urban development, contested urbanism, socio-spatial dialectics, design and urban transformations, and shelter and housing reconstruction in geographies of the global south. Ben Campkin
- Professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism
Histories, theories and practices of urbanism and urbanisation; transdisciplinary urbanism and experimental methods of urban research, publication and public engagement; urban night spaces, cultures and governance; London’s history and built environment; contemporary urban policy and practice in London; queer space, architecture and architectural histories; heritage associated with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer populations. Ellie Cosgrave
- Lecturer in Urban Innovation and Co-Director of UCL Urban Innovation and Policy Laboratory
Feminist cities; 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
- (On sabattical until Jan 2021)
Art, space and the city; creative cities; gentrification; urban infrastructure; vertical urbanism. Jennifer Robinson
- Chair 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
- Professor of Urban Studies and Planning
Urban governance, policies and politics, European spatial planning, and urban sociology
Ava Fatah gen. Schieck
- Reader in Media Architecture and Urban Digital Interaction
Architecture and Interaction Design; Ubiquitous Computing and Urban Design; digital media technologies Kalliopi Fouseki
- Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Heritage
Museology, cultural heritage, anthropology, reception studies, heritage management and public archaeology Mark Frost
- Associate Professor of Public History
Singapore; public histories; war remembrance, European colonialism 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 Rodney Harrison
- Professor of Heritage Studies
Anthropocene, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, decolonisation, heritage and museum studies, sustainable development
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
- Associate Professor 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
- Senior 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
- Associate Professor in Architecture
Contemporary Art & Architecture; Situated Practice; Narrative Environments; Urban Memory; Contested Space; Belfast Peacewalls Gabriele Manoli
- Lecturer in Environmental Engineering
Ecohydrology; cities-biosphere interactions; urban green spaces; mathematical modelling Kieren Reed
- Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
Sculpture, performance, installation, public art, culture-led regeneration Katherine Saunders-Hastings
- Lecturer in Latin American Studies
Violence; (in)security; illicit economies; citizenship; governance in Latin American cities 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 Pablo Sendra
- Lecturer in Planning and Urban Design
Social housing; community-led regeneration; co-design and collaborative planning processes; activism and grassroots initiatives; self-organisation, citizen-led and informal urban practices; public space; urban design, inclusivity and social interaction; social infrastructure Helena Titheridge
- Professor of Mobility and Sustainable Transport
Sustainable systems, transport planning Patrick White
- Teaching Fellow in Print and Electronic Media
Print and electronic media; sound - Artists in Residence and Creative Fellows
- Nicola Baldwin (2019/20)
- Tom Wolseley (2015/16)
- Max Colson (2014/15)
- Rab Harling (2013/14)
- B.J. Nilsen (2012)
- Carolyn Deby (2011/12)
- Research Fellow
- Alessio Kolioulis
- Lo Marshall
- 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)
- Prof Bas van Heur (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- Visiting Researchers
Current researchers
- Dr Rebecca Ross
- Prof Philip Harrison
- Prof George Owusu
- Dr Evance Mwathunga
- Prof Wilbard Kombe
- Dr Sylvia Croese
Past visiting researchers
- Students
Current Urban Laboratory affiliated doctoral candidates:
- Sidra Ahmed
- Killian Doherty
- Raffaella Fryer-Moreira
- Clemency Gibbs
- Fernando Gutierrez Hernandez
- Irene Manzini Ceinar
- Lo Marshall
- Lubaina Mirza
- Braulio Morera
- Hamish Muir
- Giles Omezi
- Isobel Pagendam
- Sol Perez Martinez
- Justinien Tribillon
- Claire Malaika Tunnacliffe
- Adam Walls
Recently completed PhDs
- Dr Johan Andersson
- Dr Sabina Andron
- Dr Nicola Antaki
- Prof Sigi Atteneder
- Dr Tom Bolton
- Dr Katy Beinart
- Dr John Bingham-Hall
- Dr Brent Carnell
- Dr Pei Sze Chow
- Dr David Gissen
- Dr Pooya Ghoddousi
- Dr Mohamad Hafeda
- Dr Sophie Handler
- Dr Clare Herrick
- Dr Joseph Hillier
- Dr Sandra Jasper
- Dr Karolina Kendall-Bush
- Dr Regan Koch
- Dr Fani Kostourou
- Dr Torsten Lange
- Dr Lucrezia Lennert
- Dr Leah Lovett
- Dr Samuel Merrill
- Dr Leandro Minuchin
- Dr Louis Moreno
- Dr Hiroaki Ohashi
- Dr Dimitris Panayotopoulos
- Dr Alexandra Parsons
- Dr Alex Pavey
- Dr Regner Ramos
- Dr David Roberts
- Dr Enora Robin
- Dr Melanie Brickman Stynes
- Dr Myfanwy Taylor
- Dr Tse-Hui Teh
- Dr Ophelie Véron
- Dr Valerie Viehoff
- Dr Astrid Wood
- Dr Stamatis Zografos
- Dr Saffron Woodcraft
- Vicente Sandoval
- Alexia Sawyer
- Mohammed Bakkali
- Jae-Sung Chon
- Ana Maria Muñoz Boudet
- ThienVinh Nguyen
- Aaron Mo
- Kristen Hartmann
- Charlotte Jones