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DPU welcomes new lecturer Dr Alexandra Panman
We are delighted to welcome Dr Alexandra Panman to the DPU. Alexandra will teach the module ‘An Introduction to Public Economics and Public Policy’, part of the MSc Urban Economic Development…
Development Planning Unit
Revealing politics in Valparaiso’s regeneration
Rodrigo Caimanque explores how multiscalar governance is produced to understand urban changes in a Chilean case study…
Faculty of the Built Environment|Development Planning Unit
8th DPU60th Anniversary PhD scholarship awarded to Mariajosé Nieto
Mariajosé Nieto is an economist by training and intends to study how informal and grass-roots transport alternatives are reconfiguring the mobility of people living in urban areas of Bogotá marked by limited coverage of public transport.…
Development Planning Unit
DPU PhD student Ariana Markowitz presented Crosby Hall Fellowship in Geneva
Congratulations to DPU student Ariana Markowitz was presented with the Crosby Hall Fellowship in Geneva on 25 July at the Centenary Celebration of Graduate Women International (GWI).…
Development Planning Unit
DPU's Prof. Haim Yacobi receives Bartlett Synergy Grant
Congratulations to DPU's Prof. Haim Yacobi who has received the Bartlett Synergy Grant for the project “Gaza: Violence, Health and the Built Environment”…
Development Planning Unit
DPU PhD student Kerry Bobbins selected as outstanding Green Talents alumna
Congratulations to DPU PhD student Kerry Bobbins who has been selected as one of “50 outstanding alumni” to attend the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s Green Talents Networking Conference in Berlin this October.…
Development Planning Unit
DPU PhD candidate successfully defends thesis on the political economy of industrial policy
Congratulations to Jamal Abiola Akinade who recently defended his thesis titled 'Development Ethics and the Political Economy of Industrial Policy'.…
Development Planning Unit
DPU's Rita Lambert presents findings of doctoral research at a series of events in Lima
During the week of the 14th to the 21st of June, Rita Lambert presented her work, opening the black box of peripheral urbanisation, interrogating planning, informality and the transversal logic in the production of urban land.…
Development Planning Unit
DPU contribute to the Community Led Habitat Awards at the First UN-Habitat Assembly
DPU’s Alexander Macfarlane and Étienne von Bertrab participated in the First UN-Habitat Assembly which took place between 27 and 31 May in Nairobi. In particular, they were invited to be in the judging panel of the first edition of the Community…
Development Planning Unit
DPU's KNOW project announces the Small Grants Fund Awardees
The Fund was set up to support scholars at UK universities, policy research institutions, and NGOs with a research portfolio to travel to KNOW partner cities to conduct primary research that relates to the theme of urban equality.…
Development Planning Unit