DPU News
Bartlett Professor of Planning receives first prize for outstanding international impact
17 May 2013
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 along with £10,000 to promote the economic and social impact of research.
DPU at Cities Methodologies 2013
17 April 2013
The DPU will be well represented again in the upcoming Cities Methodologies 2013 exhibition presented by UCL Urban Laboratory to be held at the Slade Research Centre on UCL’s campus April 23-26.
Communications Internship at The Bartlett
Are you interested in a career in communications? Have you got excellent written and verbal communication skills, an eye for a newsworthy story, and an interest in digital communications channels?
The Bartlett academics to play role in new UCL Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering
The announcement of a new Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering at UCL, will bring leading engineers and scientists together to address some of the major engineering challenges facing the world.
MSc Social Development Practice Awarded UCL Teaching Innovations Grant
The SDP programme has been awarded a Teaching Innovations grant from UCL to undertake the project entitled ‘Engaging Leaders for Social Change: An Action-Learning Platform’. The Teaching Innovations grant is designed to support ...
Robert Biel publishes his latest book, 'The Entropy of Capitalism'
Drawing on his experience in international systems and low-input agriculture, the book sees Biel exploring the interactions of social and physical systems. In the process he reveals the early twenty-first century as a ...
Publication Launch. Regeneration and Well-Being in East London: Stories from Carpenters Estate
Photo by ©Alexandre Apsan Frediani
The Bartlett announces £110k worth of masters scholarships
The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment is offering MSc, MA or MArch students 20 scholarships, each worth £5,000, to be used as partial fee remittance for study in 2013 ...
The Bartlett amongst leading academics, businesses and entrepreneurs on Mayor’s “Smart London’ board
The Mayor’s Office today announced the board, which is made up of ‘a top line-up of experts’ and includes Prof. Alan Penn, Dean of The Bartlett and Professor of Architectural and Urban ...
Ant ballet and PhD theme tunes: The Bartlett Showoff Round Two
Back by popular demand, The Bartlett Showoff once again took to the stage last Tuesday to showcase some of faculty’s most exciting and extrovert students, staff and research through a range of ...
DPU at the Asian Housing Rights Summit
William Hunter, DPU Teaching Fellow on the MSc Building and Urban Design in Development is currently attending and representing the DPU at the annual UPCA/ACHR/ACCA Regional Meeting being held in Bangkok ...
EIB and The Bartlett to cooperate on new infrastructure finance course
The European Investment Bank and The Bartlett have agreed to work together to support a new post-graduate course in Infrastructure Investment and Finance.
The Bartlett's Wates House to undergo a £12m refurbishment
Wates House, the current home of The Bartlett School of Architecture and The Bartlett School of Planning is set to undergo a £12m refurbishment, starting in July 2013.
4 Days in Brescia – MSc BUDD experiences the 'City of Euphemia'
During a long weekend in early February, participants of the MSc Building and Urban Design (BUDD) course, along with director Camillo Boano, tutor Caroline Newton and Graduate Assistant Emily Kelling, set out again ...
DPU Alumni wins UN-Habitat Best Practice Transfer Awards
Ignacia Ossul (ex SDP and current PhD) and TECHO, the Valparaiso-based NGO where she was serving as Regional Director, have been recognized with the Best Practice Transfer Award from UN-Habitat for their work ...
Celebrating Chinese New Year: A Q&A session for prospective students
To start off the year of the snake, here at The Bartlett we are offering prospective Chinese students the opportunity to pose questions about studying and living in London to two of our ...
Latest UCL Built Environment Club launched in Singapore
The Director of Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Lay Bee Yap was joined by UCL Vice Provost (International) Prof Michael Worton, The Bartlett’s Prof Alexi Marmot and Chadwick Professor of Civil ...
DPU Kick-starts Junior Professionals Programme with ACHR in Southeast Asia
This week the first
class of the DPU/ACHR Junior Professionals Programme met in Bangkok along with
Dr. Camillo Boano, director of the MSc Building and Urban Design and
Development, and various members ...
First Singapore-based students graduate from MSc Facility and Environment Management
On Friday, the first ever cohort of students to take the MSc programme in Facility and Environment Management in Singapore graduated at a ceremony hosted jointly by UCL and Singapore’s Building and ...
The Bartlett spin off Space Syntax to play key role in making Glasgow a ‘city of the future’
The Bartlett spin off company, Space Syntax, will play a major role in Glasgow’s development as a ‘city of the future’, following today’s announcement of a £24 million of government investment ...
The Bartlett to play an active role in the new UCL STEM policy department
UCL recently announced the opening of a new department focussed on the interface between science, technology, engineering, maths (STEM) and policy, as well as an associated interdisciplinary research institute, in September 2013.
UN-HABITAT Best Practices Award to a Building and Urban Design in Development (BUDD) Alumni
Camila Cociña , BUDD alumni (2011-12)and co-founder of the Chile-based NGO Reconstruye, has been selected as one of the 100 "Best Practices" by UN-HABITAT and the Dubai Government in 2012, for the ...
ESD+15 Anniversary
We have launched an interactive map of ESD alumni to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD).
A Mona Lisa mystery, Tropical Ken and the adventures of a Boris bike: the first Bartlett Show Off shows off the weird and the wonderful
In a small Bloomsbury pub students and staff from The Bartlett came together to watch eight brave participants show off about their Bartlett work and research over a few festive drinks. With a ...