Research projects Our research has been classed as 'world leading' and 'internationally excellent' with 'outstanding impacts' by the most recent Research Excellence Framework. You are here Home Department of Urban Studies and Planning Research Research projects Understanding migration in the world's most rapidly urbanising region Lead staff member: Tom Goodfellow Funder: ESRC Dates: Apr 2020 - Dec 2023 Project website Downtown Bronkhorstspruit, South Africa (Credit: Mark Lewis) Youth and the Work/Housing Nexus in Ethiopia and South Africa Lead staff member: Paula Meth Funder: British Academy Dates: Mar 2020 - June 2022 Project website Real estate, place adaptation and innovation within an integrated retail system (REPAIR) Lead staff member: Cath Jackson Funder: ESRC Dates: Oct 2018 - Sep 2021 Project website Successful business people and families in the North West Lead staff member: Katie Higgins Funder: Urban Studies Foundation Dates: May 2018 - May 2021 Project page UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) Lead staff member: Craig Watkins Funder: ESRC, AHRC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation Dates: Aug 2017 - May 2022 Project website Cars are partially underwater in the 2007 floods. Blue Green Infrastructure through Social Innovation (BEGIN) Lead staff member: Liz Sharp Funder: Interreg North Sea Region Dates: Jan 2017 - Jul 2021 Project website Urban citizenship and informality: New dynamics in the context of global urbanisation Lead staff member: Melanie Lombard Funder: White Rose DTP Network Award Project page The Informal Nocturnal City [INF_NIGHT] Lead staff member: Begona Aramayona Funder: European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme Dates: Oct 2022- Sep 2024 Project Page Rajaji Nagar, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), a neighbourhood where many sanitation workers continued working throughout lockdown Managing Covid-19 in India’s Cities: Reshaping people’s everyday lives in poorer urban neighbourhoods Lead staff member: Dr Glyn Williams Funder: The British Academy Project Page Completed Urban development and the new 'scramble for Africa' Lead staff member: Tom Goodfellow Funder: ESRC Project page Unseen Infrastructures: post-colonial migration, unseen labour and maintenance and repair in British cities Lead staff member: Dr Aidan Mosselson Funder: Newton International Fellowships Project page Cities and dominance: urban strategies for political settlement maintenance and change Lead staff member: Tom Goodfellow Funder: DfID Project page Social inequalities and urban fragmentation strategies Lead staff member: Rowland Atkinson Funder: Newton Mobility Grant Project page Examining housebuilder behaviour in a recovering housing market Lead staff member: Sarah Payne Funder: British Academy Project page Land: value to capture? Lead staff member: Sarah Payne Funder: RICS Education Trust Project page Mobility in the peripheries: a scoping project Lead staff member: Glyn Williams Funder: HEFCE Project page Urban development amid the 'new scramble' for Africa Lead staff member: Tom Goodfellow Funder: ESRC Project page Photo by: Dr. Ana Zavala, Panama City War in peacetime: investigating urban violence and social trauma Lead staff member: Rowland Atkinson Funder: Max Batley Fund Project page Twenty65 Lead staff member: Liz Sharp Funder: EPSRC Dates: Dec 2015 - Nov 2020 Project website Researchers at Boulby Underground Laboratory The London underground: squatting and direct housing action in the Alpha Territory Lead staff member: Sam Burgum Funder: Leverhulme Trust Dates: Oct 2017 - Oct 2020 Project website
