Researchers from UCL are building a solid base of evidence to prove that one of the main factors that determines your level of risk of pollution is the building you live in. 👉 Read here: https://bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/uncovering-the-health-inequalities-in-london-housing/index.html

COP30 blog: 4 reasons why infrastructure should take centre stage at COP30 🗣️ Read how world leaders can help turn climate ambition into action at the upcoming major conference in Brazil with this blog from Professor Priti Parikh and Ashley C W Cheng from AECOM.

📢 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

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

ECRs, Technical and Research Support Staff, join our one day workshop! 💡 One week left to express your interest for the BEAMS Positive Futures Small Grant Development Programme. Apply by 11 November ➡️ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/research-projects/2025/oct/beams-positive-futures-2025-26

Structural Racism in Architectural Education 🗣️ As part of our Black History Month, Prof D'Maris Coffman & Prof hosted a powerful conversation with Albert & Gracelynn Haymer, sharing their experiences pursuing architecture in 1970s–80s America. 🎥 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPRy2wlza-U

📢 New in The Bartlett Review: Prof Laura Vaughan, Director of Space Syntax Lab, calls for a centuries-long view of London’s high streets, using historic urbanism and space syntax to help revive them. 🔗 https://bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-need-a-longer-view-of-londons-high-streets/index.html

How can research shape better policy for ‘left-behind’ places? 🌍 Join @UCLPublicPolicy’s Up Close and Policy with Prof John Tomaney on 20 January 2026. 🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-and-policy-spatial-inequalities-and-place-based-solutions-tickets-1733504802529?aff=oddtdtcreator

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

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

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

🎙️ Voices of The Bartlett: Galila Khougali PhD researcher at BSEER, Galila highlights the three principles she lives by. 🔈 Listen to her story: https://soundcloud.com/one100ucl/galila-khougali 🔗 Explore the exhibition: https://lnkd.in/eCqebrmK #BlackHistoryMonth #WeAreTheBartlett

Get ready to apply for The Bartlett Promise Sub-Saharan Africa Master’s Scholarship 🎓 Secure your master's place in order to apply! 🔗 More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/study/scholarships-and-funding/bartlett-promise-scholarship/bartlett-promise-sub-saharan-africa-masters-scholarship

The Bartlett joins UCL Open Days this November 🇮🇳 Daniel Ovalle Costal, Director of Admissions at BSA, represents the Faculty at the three events in Mumbai, Bangalore and New Delhi. 🔗 Learn more and register: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/international/ucl-india-open-days

Exploring Living Heritage in Reconstruction: Notes from Antakya Join DPU and Francesco Pasta (ASF–UK) on “living heritage” & its role in post-disaster reconstruction, 30 Oct. 🔗 Register: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2025/oct/exploring-living-heritage-reconstruction-notes-antakya

🎙️ Spotlight on Nai Lee Kalema, PhD student at IIPP Hear Nai Lee Kalema reflect on her time at The Bartlett and what guides her forward. 🔈 Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/one100ucl/lee-kalema-nai 🖼️ Explore the exhibition: https://lnkd.in/eCqebrmK #BlackHistoryMonth #WeAreTheBartlett

💻 The latest issue DPU News is here! Issue 77 from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit explores Urban Inequalities and Democratic Disenchantment in Europe, sharing emerging insights from the Fairville project. 🔗 Read here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publications/2025/sept/dpu-news-issue-77

📢 Calling all faculty members interested in The Bartlett Pan-African Indigenist Collective! Join us for our workshop exploring African storytelling, memory & social-ecological practices on 31 October, 4:00 pm. 🔗 Find out more: https://bit.ly/48nQbWC #BlackHistoryMonth

Researchers from UCL are building a solid base of evidence to prove that one of the main factors that determines your level of risk of pollution is the building you live in. 👉 Read here: https://bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/uncovering-the-health-inequalities-in-london-housing/index.html

🔈 BEAMS Positive Futures 2025-26 Call now open for expressions of interest for Small Grant Development Program for ECRs, Technical and Research Support Staff across BEAMS faculties. For more information ➡️ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/research-projects/2025/oct/beams-positive-futures-2025-26

💻 Have you caught up with the latest issue of DPU News? Issue 77 is out now! This edition's focus is on Urban Inequalities and Democratic Disenchantment in Europe: Emerging Lessons from Fairville. Read now: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publications/2025/sept/dpu-news-issue-77

“Rethinking Social Value in Projects: An Objectivist Framework for Creating Social Outcomes Through the Social Trifecta” by BSSC's Dr Mohamad El Daouk in the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business. 🔗 Read here (Open Access): https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMPB-12-2024-0326 📷 Dr El Daouk

What does home sound like to you? 🎧 At The Cally Fest, The Bartlett Pan-African Indigenist Collective created a living sound archive for memory, storytelling & community. 👉 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/case-studies/living-sound-archive-cally-festival-bartlett-pan-african-indigenist-collective

Happy Diwali to everyone celebrating! 🕯️

Our celebration of the one year anniversary of ‘100 UCL Employees: How You See Us’ continues with Chizoba Onyiuke, Senior Communications Manager at The Bartlett sharing her life's motto for tough times. https://bit.ly/4o6r8vM #BlackHistoryMonth

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to near-zero needs new clean technologies and changes to how the world invests in them, especially in aviation where developing and adopting greener solutions is risky and expensive, finds a new study involving Prof Andreas Schäfer @thebartlettucl.bsky.social

Quain Lectures 2025–26: Sharing What We Have in Common, 20–24 Oct Prof Seana Shiffrin delivers 3 lectures exploring public property in communicative endeavours & the achievement of democratic values. 🔗 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2025/oct/quain-lectures-2025-26-sharing-what-we-have-common

Join our virtual open day event on 22 October & explore UCL degrees in: 🏛️ Architecture 📐 Urban Planning 🏗️ Construction & Project Management 🌿 Sustainable Built Environments 👉 Register: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2025/oct/bartlett-undergraduate-virtual-open-day#book