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Urban Lab's Steering Committee is drawn from a broad range of departments and faculties at UCL. Its members contribute to our strategic planning and agenda, and develop new initiatives.
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Committee member | Research interests | |
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| Yasminah Beebeejaun Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning View Yasminah Beebeejaun's UCL profile | Race and territorialisation, decision-making processes, community organising, nationhood debates, colonialism | |
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| Ben Campkin Professor of Urbanism and Urban History View Ben Campkin's UCL profile | Histories, theories and practices of urbanism and urbanisation; transdisciplinary urbanism and experimental methods of urban research, publication and public engagement; urban night spaces, cultures and governance; London’s history and built environment; contemporary urban policy and practice in London; queer space, architecture and architectural histories; heritage associated with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer populations. | |
| Joseph Cook UCL Citizen Science Academy Lead View Joseph Cook's UCL profile | Citizen science; anthropology of work; anthropology of architecture; community engagement; transient communities; social prescribing; healthcare architecture | |
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| Ava Fatah gen. Schieck Reader in Media Architecture and Urban Digital Interaction View Ava Fata gen. Schieck's UCL profile | Architecture and Interaction Design; Ubiquitous Computing and Urban Design; digital media technologies | |
Kalliopi Fouseki | Museology, cultural heritage, anthropology, reception studies, heritage management and public archaeology | |
| Mark Frost Associate Professor of Public History View Mark Frost's UCL profile | Singapore; public histories; war remembrance, European colonialism | |
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| Haidy Geismar Professor of Anthropology View Haidy Geismar's UCL profile | Intellectual and cultural property, indigenous rights, new forms of cultural representation, the anthropology of art, critical museology and the South Pacific | |
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| Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou Lecturer in Social Theory View Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou's UCL profile | Political sociology, nationalism studies, radical imagination and speculative futures, financialisation, risk and debt practices, housing movements | |
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| Barbara Lipietz Professor of Urban Development Planning View Barbara Lipietz's UCL profile | Urban governance, participatory governance and planning through co-production; circulation and localisation of public policy; anti-poverty strategies; inclusive cities and the 'right to the city', sustainable cities, resilient cities; housing policy; slum upgrading practices; urban regeneration | |
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| Anna Maguire Lecturer in Public History View Anna Maguire's UCL profile | Public history, migration, war and empire in twentieth century Britain and the British Empire, history education, co-production and collaboration public history approaches | |
| Gabriele Manoli Lecturer in Environmental Engineering View Gabriele Manoli's UCL profile | Ecohydrology; cities-biosphere interactions; urban green spaces; mathematical modelling | |
| Susan Moore Senior Lecturer in Planning View Susan Moore's UCL profile | Sustainable urban development processes and practices; Relational geographies of urban (and suburban) development and built form | |
| Gabriel Moshenska Associate Professor in Archaeology View Gabriel Moshenska's UCL profile | Public history, archaeologies of modern conflict, heritage studies, intellectual history, children in conflict and the impact of trauma, play, materiality and place-making in children's lives | |
| Michał Murawski Assistant Professor in Critical Area Studies View Michał Murawski's UCL profile | Architecture and planning of Eastern European communism; social condensers; Warsaw and Moscow; curatorial and art practice methodologies | |
| Florian Mussgnug Reader in Italian and Comparative Literature View Florian Mussgnug's UCL profile | Catastrophe and apocalypse in comparative literature, including climate change fiction; Cold War culture and existential risk; Rome | |
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| James O'Leary Associate Professor in Architecture View James O'Leary's UCL profile (On sabbatical) | Contemporary Art & Architecture; Situated Practice; Narrative Environments; Urban Memory; Contested Space; Belfast Peacewalls | |
| Catalina Ortiz Associate Professor, Development Planning Unit View Catalina Ortiz's UCL profile | Urban and regional planning; human geography; development studies; urban design | |
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| Kieren Reed Professor of Fine Art View Kieren Reed's UCL profile | Sculpture; performance; installation; public art; culture-led regeneration | |
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| Katherine Saunders-Hastings Lecturer in Latin American Studies View Katherine Saunders-Hastings's UCL profile | Violence; (in)security; illicit economies; citizenship; governance in Latin American cities | |
| Rafael Schacter Research Fellow in Anthropology View Rafael Schacter's UCL profile | Independent public art; street art and graffiti; visual culture; vernacular art; popular politics; public sphere; anthropology of art; material culture | |
| Pablo Sendra Lecturer in Planning and Urban Design View Pablo Sendra's UCL profile | Social housing; community-led regeneration; co-design and collaborative planning processes; activism and grassroots initiatives; self-organisation, citizen-led and informal urban practices; public space; urban design, inclusivity and social interaction; social infrastructure | |
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| Helena Titheridge Professor of Mobility and Sustainable Transport View Helena Titheridge's UCL profile | Sustainable systems, transport planning |