News

• DPU Statement on Cuts to ODA-Funded Research
  The DPU strongly condemns recent cuts in UK Official Development Assistance (ODA or ‘foreign aid’) and, specifically, in cuts to ODA-funded research activities.
• DPU’s Pascale Hofmann awarded funding by UCL Grand Challenges and the Global Engagement Office
  Dr. Priti Parikh and Dr. Pascale Hofmann have been awarded funding in collaboration with Dr. Luiza Campos, Dr. Ine Stenmeens and Prof. Monica Lakhanpaul for a project focused on UN SDGs: Pathways to Achievement.
• DPU’s Haim Yacobi receives funding for project on the representation of cities in the Middle East
  Congratulations to the DPU’s Prof. Haim Yacobi, Programme Leader of the MSc Health in Urban Development, for receiving the UCL Cities Partnership Programme in collaboration with with Prof Eric Verdeil and Dr Helene Thiollet from SciencesPo.
• DPU PhD candidate successfully defends thesis on Women’s Experiences of Post-Disaster Reconstruction
  Congratulations to Lucila Carbonell who has defended her thesis that gender-sensitive governmental and humanitarian agencies need to reframe ‘shelter self-recovery’ as an integrated approach
• Alumni career stories – DPU launch new video serie:; The new series, ‘DPU Alumni Career stories’, shares reflections from alumni across each of our seven MSc programmes, highlighting how study at the DPU helped shape career trajectories.

Publications

• DPU Working Paper – No. 207
  Trajectories of spatial violence in Southeast Asian cities, By Marina Kolovou Kouri, Shoko Sakuma, Catalina Ortiz, Giovanna Astolfo, Elizabeth Rhoads
• Coinvite Toolkit – How to Use Storytelling for Urban Learning
• Walking off the beaten path: Everyday walking environment and practices in informal settlements in Freetown
  Daniel Oviedo, Seth Asare Okyere, Mariajosé Nieto, Michihiro Kita, Louis Frimpong Kusi. Yasmina Yusuf, Braima Koroma
• Mobilising urban knowledge in an infodemic: Urban observatories, sustainable development and the COVID-19 crisis
  By Michele, Acuto; Ariana, Dickey; Stephanie, Butcher; Carla-Leanne, Washbourne (2021) in , World Development, Volume 140, April 2021.
• KNOW Practical Guide #1: A Practical Training Guide for Briquette Production, by Urban Action Lab, Makerere University, Kampala (2021)

Blogs

• Designing safe cities for women: The green space, gender, safety nexus in London, by Reshma Kumar

• Lockdown and inequalities in green spaces distribution: side effects on mental health, a French case study, by Theophile Altuzarra

• Green space in Waltham Forest, and the fundamental wrongs of engaging ‘hard to reach’ populations, by Jess Beagley
• My experiences of engaging with the narratives of planning degree alumni from different countries, by Priya Singh, Work Package 5 Researcher at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)

Research Projects

•    COiNVITE: Activating Learning for Slum Upgrading through Transmedia Storytelling

Digital media

• Can urban development planning help deliver healthier cities?
  Development Planning Public Lecture with Prof Julio Davila for Bartlett Graduate Open Days
• Why urban health justice now?
  Development Planning Public Lecture with Prof Haim Yacobi for Bartlett Graduate Open Days
• Dialogues in Development
  Book launch of Urban Mobility and Social Equity in Latin America
  Hosted by Daniel Oviedo
• Dialogues in Development
  Teaching southern architecture and urbanism within a changing western higher education context
  Hosted by Haim Yacobi
• DPU Tea
  Reinventing the Wheel? Learning from History on Urban Mental Health
  Carolyn Stephens
• DPU Tea
  From gender planning to gender transformation
  Caroline Moser

Opportunities

• Graduate Teaching Assistant: MSc Urban Economic Development