The recipients of the Cities partnership Programme's first funding round for academic activity in Rome have been announced
Following a call for proposals for academic activity involving one or more UCL individuals and a partner based in Rome, the first wave of Cities partnerships Programme funding recipients has been announced.
The projects set to receive funding cover a diverse range of research areas, from neuroscience to urban governance. Proposed activity in Rome will take the form of workshops, seminars, lab tours, lectures, podcast recordings and more.
Congratulations to all recipients. The full list of academics and their projects is as follows:
Recipient | Department | Project description |
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Prof Susan Collins | Slade School of Fine Art | Exploring how ancient Rome’s technical innovations can inform our technologies of the future |
Dr Jennifer Rushworth | SELCS | Mourning: Different times, different forms |
Dr Paul Ayris | UCL Library Services | Focus on open science workshop |
Dr Sarah Milne | Bartlett School of Architecture | On the move: Food, merchants and the early modern European city |
Dr Clare Melhuish | UCL Urban Laboratory | Conflicting heritage in the timeline: Representations, misrepresentations and ways forward |
Dr Michael Short | Bartlett School of Planning | Planning for densification and housing in London and Rome: Urban design, real estate and sustainability agendas in practice |
Dr Bendetto De Martino | Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience | Decisions about decisions: Bridging between mathematical models of decision-making and metacognition |
Prof Davide Ravasi | UCL School of Management | UCL-LUISS doctoral development workshop |
Dr Taku Fujiyama | Civil Engineering | Developing and running a professional development course on railway traffic control for practitioners in Rome and in London |
Dr Jenny McArthur | Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy | Urban governance amidst political and economic crises: Comparative learnings from Rome and Athens |
Dr Michaela | Social Science DSS | Life course transitions and Italian migrants in time of change and austerity |
Dr Silvia Suteu | Laws | The rise of constitutional identity review in Europe: A critical assessment |
Dr Maria Maiaru | Cell and Developmental Biology | London-Rome: Together against pain |
Prof Carolo Marinelli | Mathematics | Stochastic and PDE methods in economics and finance |
Dr Mingqing Wang | Institute for Materials Discovery | Exploring collaboration opportunities on biosensors and renewable energy between UCL and URTV |
Prof Lucie Green | Space and Climate Physics | Developing the next generation of techniques and devices for studying the solar magnetic field |
Dr Lara Goscé | Institute for Global Health | London-Rome workshop on infectious diseases: Epidemiology, modelling and health economics |
Prof Ruth Lovering | Institute of Cardiovascular Science | Bridging the gap between experimentalists, biocurators and analysis tool providers (BGAP) |
Prof Nigel Klein | UCL GOS Institute of Child Health | Towards developing a cure for children with HIV |
Dr Gabriella Conti | Economics | Policy options to reduce the burden of disease in England: A dynamic microsimulation |
Prof Chronis Tzedakis | Geography | Geological archives of past warm periods from Central Italy and their potential for climate research |
Dr Marc Esteve | Political Science | The influence of individual characteristics on the performance of government employees: A metaregression |
Prof Liz Rideal | Slade School of Fine Art | Feu Follet : Flying again - ghosts in word and image |
Prof Patrick Haggard | Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience | The limits of pain and the nature of human experience |
Dr Mark Herbster | Computer Science | The development of novel artificial intelligence approaches to the study of lifelong learning |