OUR VIEW: IMF & UK Infrastructure Investment

24 May 2013

As the UK waits for a strong and sustainable recovery, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has emphasised the significant contribution that infrastructure investment can make. Chancellor George Osborne has publicly acknowledged the wisdom of this advice.

UCL Energy Institute launches RCUK Centre for Energy Epidemiology

23 May 2013

The UCL Energy Institute has launched the RCUK Centre for Energy Epidemiology, one of six Centres of expertise focusing on End-User Energy Demand, part of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) Energy Programme.

Digital Grass Exhibition

The project ‘Digital Grass’ initially developed by MSc AAC students Deyan  Nenov, Ivana Petrusevski, Catherine Cornu, Khaled ElAshry and Nazli Kok as part of their 'City as Interface' module is currently being exhibited ...

Connecting through space - Call for Design Submissions

How can connecting people through public space promote social connection and wellbeing?

Ben Clifford's new book 'The Collaborating Planner' published

In an age of hyperactive reform to both the planning system and the local government context within which it operates, the role of frontline professionals is vital in shaping the contours of modernisation ...

DPU at the 2nd CAN Regional Meeting and Workshop (Quezon City, 20-28 May 2013)

^{Photo by ©Giorgio Talocci}

3rd year undergraduates shadow industry and local govt

On the 7th-21st May 2013 Bartlett School of Planning 3rd year students are work shadowing at the following companies and councils: Capita Symonds, Peter Brett Associates Tyms, Arup, CgMs Consulting, Urban Movement, URS ...

European Investment Bank (EIB) Signs MOU

New programme to benefit from support of Europe's largest international infrastructure investor

DPU summerLab 2013 series registration open!

The Bartlett Development Planning Unit is happy to officially announce the launch of the DPU summerLab 2013 series. The 2013 series contains several innovations including the introduction of two Latin America destinations and ...

Bartlett Professor of Planning receives first prize for outstanding international impact

Fulong Wu, Professor of Planning at The Bartlett, was awarded first prize in the Outstanding International Impact category by The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on 14 May. He received a trophy ...

Planning Professor presents at AAG Annual Meeting

Fulong Wu recently presented at the Presidential Plenary of Association of American Geographers annual meeting which took place in Los Angeles in April. This year's event was very well attended, attracting about ...

Warm welcome to our BHP Billiton Chair in Sustainable Global Resources

It is with great pleasure that we formally welcome Prof Raimund Bleischwitz to the ISR team as the BHP Billiton Chair in Sustainable Global Resources.

Practical Environment and Energy Efficiency CPD course launched

UCL, in collaboration with GL Reynolds and Lloyd's Register, is pleased to announce a new CPD course "Practical Environment and Energy Efficiency", 18-20th June. The aim of the course is to to ...

CSH featured in Guardian article

Dr Katherine Curran, Research Associate at CSH, recently spoke about the project 'Heritage Smells!' at the Museums Showoff.

Bartlett Professor part of team on shortlisted project for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Murray Fraser, Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at The Bartlett School of Planning, and Vice-Dean of Research for the Bartlett Faculty, worked with the Palestine Regeneration Team (PART) on the Birzeit regeneration ...

CSH PhD Student wins prize at UCL Digital Humanities workshop

George Neris, PhD student at the Centre for Sustainable Heritage, leads the project ‘UCL Connections’, which recently won £5,000 at the Digital Humanities prize workshop in April 2013. The workshop was organised ...

ICIF launch "UCL to lead research into Infrastructure of tomorrow"

A consortium of Universities led by UCL were recently successful in being awarded funding to establish a Centre looking at the interdependencies of cross sectoral infrastructure. The International Centre for Infrastructure Futures (ICIF ...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) Academic Forum

On 2nd May John Kelsey attended the Building Information Modelling (BIM) Academic Forum at Coventry University. The forum exists to explore the interaction of the rapid development of BIM, its deployment (or otherwise ...

Innovation and replication in public organisation

Prof Andrew Davies recently presented his paper, with Lars Frederiksen and Andreas Hartmann, ‘Innovation and replication in public organisation: the Highways Agencies in England and the Netherlands’ for the Collaboratory on Global Projects ...

Recruitment reopens - 2 fully funded LoLo CDT PhD studentships available

For 2013-14, the UCL Energy Institute is offering 2 further fully funded studentships  (enhanced stipend of approx. £17,000 per annum tax free plus UK/EU fees) to eligible applicants, to be part ...

Bartlett Professor helps plan for the future of Central London

Yvonne Rydin, Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy at The Bartlett School of Planning, played an active role in the West End Commission which this week published a report outlining a plan ...

Bartlett Summer Show 2013

We are pleased to announce that this year's Summer Show will be opened by the renowned French architect, Claude Parent, on Friday 21 June 2013. 

Life in the City is Essentially One Giant Math Problem

Mike Batty here at UCL, Geoff West, Luis Bettencourt and Jose Lobo at the Santa Fe Institute, and Steve Koonin at the Center for Urban Science and Progress at NYU are quoted in ...

UCL-Energy Professor joins Airports Commission’s External Advisory Panel

Professor Andreas Schafer, Chair of Energy and Transport at the UCL Energy Institute, has accepted an invitation to join the Airports Commission’s External Advisory Panel. The Airports Commission was established in the ...

UCL-Energy Honorary Researcher publishes 'The Burning Question'

Duncan Clark, Honorary Researcher at the UCL Energy Institute, has published his latest book with the help of staff and students of the UCL Energy Institute.