PhD Life: The following gives an account of the online workshop “PhD Life”, organised by UCL Postgrad Urbanists — an interdisciplinary academic forum organised by students associated with the UCL Urban Laboratory — on 29th March 2022, for PhD researchers at UCL and beyond. This report was written by committee…

Dr Giada Peterle joined Postgrad Urbanists’ PhD Life Workshop in March for a conversation with PGU Chair Sidra Ahmed about Giada’s research and illustrations, PhD experience, and Narrative Geographies blog. This piece recaps the conversation and is written by PGU committee members Sidra Ahmed and Lu Mirza, PhD Researchers based…

During the Spring of 2022 UCL Urban Lab curated a series of walks across East London, as a means of exploring London once more following the Covid-19 ‘lockdowns’ which had enforced the cancellation of so many in-person events, and linked to its annual theme Emergency. Running between UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus…

During the Spring of 2022 UCL Urban Lab curated a series of walks across East London, as a means of exploring London once more following the Covid-19 ‘lockdowns’ which had enforced the cancellation of so many in-person events, and linked to its annual theme Emergency. Running between UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus…

During the Spring of 2022 UCL Urban Lab curated a series of walks across East London, as a means of exploring London once more following the Covid-19 ‘lockdowns’ which had enforced the cancellation of so many in-person events, and linked to its annual theme Emergency. Running between UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus…

The vertical urbanism of London and Paris was the subject of an online workshop organised by Urban Lab Co-Director Dr Andrew Harris (UCL Geography) and Dr Martine Drozdz (LATTS, Paris) on 30th June 2021 and funded by an award from UCL’s Global Engagement Office. …

Sidra Ahmed reflects on the words of acclaimed writer and T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize winner Roger Robinson, who delivered UCL Urban Laboratory’s annual Cities Imaginaries lecture on 20 May. “Brixton was always a place for me where I could exist comfortably. Even when I wasn’t staying there, it was always…

Clare Melhuish was invited to reflect on ‘how we should value trees’ in the penultimate Tree Rings webinar of this year’s Urban Trees Festival, co-ordinated by CPRE London (Saturday 22nd May, 1–2pm, chaired by Peter Fiennes). …

On 26 March 2021, in the middle of the UK’s third national lockdown, UCL Urban Laboratory and the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction hosted an interdisciplinary group of speakers to draw together diverse perspectives on the ongoing COVID emergency. Researcher Melissa Weihmayer reflects on what was said. Catch-phrases like…