Lessons from Kampala on Reflexivity in Development Practice
The international field trip is an integral component of the MSc Development Administration and Planning (DAP). After months of desk-based research in London, our cohort traveled to Kampala, Uganda, to...
View ArticleThe Better to Break and Bleed with: On Research, Violence, and Trauma
NB: This post contains graphic content. In March 2018, I interviewed a Salvadoran artist who lives in the United States about his work on violence. As we discussed a project, he recounted seeing the...
View ArticleHow Research Creates More Inclusive Spaces: Bar Elias, Lebanon
Co-authored by Joana Dabaj Originally published by UCL Institute for Global Prosperity It is not every day that academics plant trees, paint pavements, or install park benches. But that is exactly what...
View ArticleTren Maya: high hopes and contested development in the Yucatan Peninsula
Authors: Naji Makarem, Étienne von Bertrab and Alessio Koliulis This year our students in the MSc Urban Economic Development embarked on our Overseas Practice Engagement (OPE) by focusing their...
View ArticleArchiving border(ing) knowledge through networking
By Rita Lambert, Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou and Jessie Sullivan Apart from legal categories and physical markers delineating the limits of nation states and transnational configurations, borders are...
View ArticleIt’s time we unveil the hidden everyday experiences
This blog was written as part of the Learning Alliance between the OVERDUE project and the DPU’s MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development. Amanda is a recent graduate of this MSc programme...
View ArticleThe invisible burden of care work: women as producers of sanitation...
Focus Development Association – Madagascar This blog was written as part of the Learning Alliance between the OVERDUE project and the DPU’s MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development. Amanda is...
View ArticleReflections from the frontline: Does environmental sustainability have a...
Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. 3.1: Environmental ‘activisting while Black’: Questions and conundrums Within and between the world of mainstream environmental movements and me, there are ever...
View ArticleRECLAIM-FUTURE Mini-Project
By Wacera Thande and Robert Biel The Radical Exploration of Co-Learning through Artificial Intelligence for Managing a Food-centric Urban Territory of Unprecedented Resilience and Equity or...
View ArticleExploring the public role of a Global University: Reflecting on the potential...
Authors: Chauncie Bigler, Yuka Aota, Debayan Chatterjee, Corin Menuge (Graduates of MSc Urban Development Planning, Bartlett DPU, UCL) Introduction In the Autumn of 2019, a group of MSc Urban...
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