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Bartlett Professor of Planning receives first prize for outstanding international impact

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.

CSH featured in Guardian article

CSH featured in Guardian article

13 May 2013

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

CSH PhD Student wins prize at UCL Digital Humanities workshop

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 ...

Results! Graduate School Bursaries for the Cheltenham Science Festival 2013

Results! Graduate School Bursaries for the Cheltenham Science Festival 2013

We are delighted to announce that the Head of the Graduate School, Professor David Bogle, has considered the nominations put forward by divisions/departments for a Graduate School Bursary to attend the Cheltenham ...

CIBSE Building Simulation Group Student Prize awarded

CIBSE Building Simulation Group Student Prize awarded

CIBSE Building Simulation Group Student Prize awarded to BSGS EDE MSc Student Yair Schwartz
"Yair Schwartz from University College London has won the first Building Simulation Group Student Prize.He scooped the £1 ...

LET Award

LET Award


The Lighting Education Trust (LET) is a charity that supports lighting education and at there AGM on 21/03/13 they presented Kevin Mansfield, course director for the Bartlett Light and Lighting MSc ...

Communications Internship at The Bartlett

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?



Street mobility and network accessibility: towards tools for overcoming barriers to walking amongst older people

Street mobility and network accessibility: towards tools for overcoming barriers to walking amongst older people

A group of interdisciplinary scholars at UCL has recently received funding from EPSRC/ESRC/AHRC for a three-year 'Design for Wellbeing' study that aims to develop tools for overcoming community severance (CS). CS ...

The Bartlett academics to play role in new UCL Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering

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.

The suburban food basket: the role of spatial setting and social context in providing access

The suburban food basket: the role of spatial setting and social context in providing access

Professor Laura Vaughan, Bartlett Space Group, BSGS; Dr Jennifer Mindell and Dr Shaun Scholes from the UCL Health and Social Surveys Research Group (HSSRG) and Dr Angela Donkin, from the UCL Institute of ...

The Bartlett announces £110k worth of masters scholarships

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 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

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 ...

EIB and The Bartlett to cooperate on new infrastructure finance course

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

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.

Celebrating Chinese New Year: A Q&A session for prospective students

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 ...

Urban Migration Film Festival Report published

Urban Migration Film Festival Report published

Professor Laura Vaughan and the UCL Environment Institute have just published a report which summarises the discussions which took place at the 2012 UCL Urban Migration Film Festival and Symposium. A gathering of ...

Latest UCL Built Environment Club launched in Singapore

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 ...

First Singapore-based students graduate from MSc Facility and Environment Management

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 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

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.

Media Architecture Biennale 2012

Media Architecture Biennale 2012

On November 15th-17th leading architects, artists, scholars, and industry from all over the Globe met up in Aarhus, Denmark to shape the media architecture of the future, and to discuss how media architecture ...

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

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 ...

Sustainable Energy for All: this year, next year, sometime – or never?

Sustainable Energy for All: this year, next year, sometime – or never?


Despite recent high profile political rows in government about the future of wind farms in the UK, a quick show of hands at a recent UCL Lunch Hour Lecture showed that there was ...