The Research Centre for Urban Studies (RCUS)

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Eunice Anteh represented our group at the Black History Month where she presented a poster. This event was hosted by Heriot-Watt University to celebrate the Black African-Caribbean community in Scotland. Well done Eunice for spreading your message far and wide!

We are delighted to announce the PES Seminar for 2024-2025. October 30th. 12:00-1:00 pm UK time. Online. Special Guest Speaker: Dr Iftekhar Ahmed, The University of Newcastle, Australia. Title of talk: "Disaster and Development Research Group”.

Seminar invitation - Smoking amongst people experiencing homelessness 27th august. Inaugural seminar of the new joint series between I-SPHERE and the Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health. Open to all staff and PhD students. i-sphere.site.hw.ac.uk/event/i-sphere…

Dr Adriana Portella was awarded a British Academy research funding to study Climate Change with Indigenous Communities in the Amazon. It is a partnership between Heriot-Watt University and the Federal University of Pelotas. thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/funding-a…

14/06/2024. IPES social event with Professor Harry Smith leading out on the city center walk was fantastic. Thank you all.

Congratulations to PGR student Koorosh Aghabozorgi on publishing his article 'How University Blue and Green Space affect Students’ Mental Health' in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening together with Harry Smith and Sander van der Jagt! It can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug…

We are now recruiting for a 0.2 FTE Research Associate post to work on the EPSRC IAA project 'IAA2022-Technical support for implementation of Medellin’s Comuna 8 (C8) . The post is on the HWU website at enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… Deadline for applications is 8th April.

A new £1.1M research project led by Heriot-Watt University is set to improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities for Roma communities across the UK. Professor Ryan Woolrych is leading this research. hw.ac.uk/news/articles/…

The EGIS James Watt Scholarships are now live here. In The Urban Institute we had two PhD proposals put forward. One on climate change and social justice and one on gender-inclusive online learning experiences. The deadline for submission is 22 March 2024. hw.ac.uk/uk/schools/ene…

A new paper out in the journal Cities, entitled “Advancing environmental justice in cities through the Mosaic Governance of nature-based solutions”. It can be found here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S02…

Today we had the Drummond Community High School, Design, Engineer, Construct activity coordinated by Mark Holden. Dr Adriana Portella, from the Urban Institute, and Dr Mehreen Gul, from Architectural Engineering, were members of the review panel representing Heriot-Watt.

High streets, ageing and well-being. Luca Brunelli, Harry Smith & Ryan Woolrych. New paper available here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We are pleased to announce the publication of Guidelines for Co-Creation and Co-Governance of #NaturebasedSolutions: Insights from EU-funded Projects, data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/15…. TUIs Sander van der Jagt contributed to Chapter 5 on monitoring and evaluating the co-creation process.

EGIS Away Day on 4 December 2023.

UKRI Healthy Ageing and Climate Project report and findings was launched in the press today! independent.co.uk/news/uk/heriot… For more info: ageandclimate.com

Our TUI Seminar today was a great success with over 50 participants from all over the word. Thank you so much Professor David Canter. Here the link of the recording session: tinyurl.com/So-Late-Canter

Today we had the Book release: SUSTAINABILITY AND ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION IN THE POST-COVID ERA by Ricardo García-Mira, Petra Schweizer-Ries and Cristina García-Fontán
(Editors). iaps-association.org/blog/book-rele…

Reminder :))

Prof Ryan Woolrych is at the healthy ageing conference 2023 at the Oval, London, presenting the research results of ageandclimate.com @WoolrychR Health Ageing in a Changing Climate