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📢 Professor Matthew Carmona appointed Special Advisor to the House of Lords

Professor Carmona from The Bartlett School of Planning will help guide the inquiry into New Towns: Building Communities.

🔗 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/2025/nov/ucl-professor-appointed-special-advisor-house-lords
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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New research shows that empowered local communities are most effective at responding to crises.

A new report from Lauren Andres @thebartlettucl.bsky.social and Jennifer Constantine takes lessons from COVID-19 for how we build resilience. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
Local communities are shown to respond best in a crisis
From Crisis to Resilience: Radical Transformations for Food Security, Health and Social Justice shows that local responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were effective in supporting resilience and tackling food insecurity.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Fully-funded UCL-EPSRC studentships 🌍

Applications now open for the 2026–27 Landscape Award four year studentships, including within BSSC, BSEER & CASA.

🔗 Apply by 05 January: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctoral-training/prospective-students/ucl-epsrc-landscape-award-uela-studentships
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
#COP30: five key takeaways 🌎

In The Conversation, Prof Priti Parikh (BSSC), Prof Mark Maslin & Dr Simon Chin-Yee outline how COP30 failed as an “implementation COP”.

🔗 https://theconversation.com/cop30-five-reasons-the-un-climate-conference-failed-to-deliver-on-its-peoples-summit-promise-269750
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The Urban Listening Room, 26 November 🔊

Explore sound, stories & community with Charlie Dark MBE & DIVINE KIND. Supported by The Bartlett Pan-African Indigenist Collective.

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-urban-listening-room-a-sound-system-session-with-charlie-dark-tickets-1933286755729
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Four researchers from the Bartlett named in Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers List 2025 🌟

Profs Dabo Guan, Jing Meng & Zhifu Mi (BSSC) & Jonas De Vos (BSP) have been recognised among the top 1 in 1,000 researchers worldwide.

🔗 Full list: https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Are you New to UCL? Tell us about your experience & win up to £500! 💷

If you started this academic year (2025–26), we want to hear from you.

🚨 Closes 05 December 2025

📢 Your voice matters: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oct/are-you-new-ucl-tell-us-about-your-experience-joining-ucl-and-win-ps500
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
As #COP30 unfolds, we’re spotlighting UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose's new report: State Capacity & Capabilities for a Just Green World 🌿

📗 Read more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publications/2025/nov/state-capacity-and-capabilities-just-green-world
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Designing Healthier Places 🏙️

For better or worse, our environments shape us. Interviewed for Portico magazine, hear from academics across BSA, IEDE and DPU.

🔗 https://magazine.ucl.ac.uk/autumn-2025/portico-magazine-autumn-2025-ucl/features/designing-healthier-places-portico-magazine-ucl/index.html
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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All eyes on UCL for its 200th birthday. Across 3 nights our Wilkins Building and main Quad will transform into an immersive sound and light experience as UCL illuminated takes us through the history of London’s oldest university. 11–13 Feb 2026 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticketing/app/ev/25074/
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Why We Need a Longer View of London’s High Streets 🛍️

Prof Laura Vaughan, Director of Space Syntax Lab, calls for a centuries-long view of London’s high streets to help revive them.

🔗 https://bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-need-a-longer-view-of-londons-high-streets/index.html
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
4 reasons why infrastructure should take centre stage at #COP30 🗣️

Read how climate ambition can turn into action with this blog from Prof Priti Parikh & Ashley C W Cheng.

🔗 https://www.ice.org.uk/news-views-insights/inside-infrastructure/why-infrastructure-should-take-centre-stage-cop30
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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❗️#COP30 must be a turning point for delivering on climate goals

The latest paper by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social & Ulla Heher, launched at #COP30, proposes a mission-oriented approach to country platforms to tackle this challenge.

🔗 Read here: buff.ly/74THJuS
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November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
As the second week of #COP30 unfolds, we're spotlighting 60 years of UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering with our book: Shaping the Sustainable Built Environment in a Changing World 💡

👉 Read: https://issuu.com/thebartlett/docs/shaping_the_sustainable_built_environment_in_a_cha
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Bartlett School of Planning visited Shanghai 🌏🤝

With Profs Mike Raco & Lauren Andres, we visited ECADI, launched a new Urban Regeneration & AI Lab with Shanghai University, spoke at Tongji University's AI for Cities event and reconnected with our UCL alumni community.
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The Urban Listening Room, 26 November 🔊

Explore sound, stories & community with Charlie Dark MBE & DIVINE KIND. Supported by The Bartlett Pan-African Indigenist Collective.

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-urban-listening-room-a-sound-system-session-with-charlie-dark-tickets-1933286755729
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Why doesn’t London have sustainable transport? 🚍

In The Bartlett Review, Prof Robin Hickman (The Bartlett School of Planning) explores the barriers holding back the city’s transport transformation.

🔗 https://bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/why-dont-we-have-sustainable-transport-in-london/index.html
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Posthuman City Making in the Age of AI 🤖🏙️

How is AI transforming urban planning and city development, and at what cost?

Join Dr Federico Cugurullo on 20 November for our next Bartlett School of Planning Public Lecture.

🔗 Register now: https://lnkd.in/e6vhNczt
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Get ready to apply for The Bartlett Promise Master's Scholarship 🎓

Secure your master's place in order to apply for the scholarship!

🔗 More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/study/scholarships-and-funding/bartlett-promise-scholarship/bartlett-promise-masters-scholarship
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Citizen scientists shaping their own communities 🤝

In our latest Bartlett Review article, Joseph Cook (IGP) alongside London council representatives, explore the importance of citizen science.

https://bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/training-citizens-to-shape-their-own-communities-and-cities/index.html
Training citizens to shape their own communities and cities
Training citizens to shape policy through research benefits our communities, our institutions and local democracy.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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A powerful new database and economic model that identifies the most cost-effective strategies to reduce the carbon emissions from the world’s iron and steel processing plants has been developed by Prof Jing Meng and Dabo Guan @thebartlettucl.bsky.social.
Wind power delivers £104 billion net benefit to UK consumers
UK investment in wind energy generated a net financial benefit of more than £100bn for energy consumers between 2010 and 2023, challenging misconceptions about the cost of the green energy transition,...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Can AI help London plan better?

In a special UCL Policy Lab policy insight blog, Professors Lauren Andres and Mike Raco (@thebartlettucl.bsky.social) discuss the role that AI can play in the capital's planning.

www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
Can AI help London plan better?
In a special UCL Policy Lab policy insight blog, Profs Lauren Andres and Mike Raco discuss the role that AI can play in the capital's planning.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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❗️#COP30 must be a turning point for delivering on climate goals

The latest paper by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social & Ulla Heher, launched at #COP30, proposes a mission-oriented approach to country platforms to tackle this challenge.

🔗 Read here: buff.ly/Z18hRPB
@thebartlettucl.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Are you New to UCL? Tell us about your experience & win up to £500! 💷

If you started this academic year (2025–26), we want to hear from you.

🚨 Closes 05 December 2025

📢 Your voice matters: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oct/are-you-new-ucl-tell-us-about-your-experience-joining-ucl-and-win-ps500
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
As #COP30 takes centre stage in global climate discussions, The Bartlett School of Planning's Bartlett Review podcast “What next for urban regeneration?” shines a spotlight on cities and transformation.

➡️ Listen: https://bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/podcast-what-next-for-urban-regeneration/index.html
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM