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🌎 World-leading research and #postgraduate teaching ✊ #SustainableDevelopment in the Global South 📍@TheBartlettUCL, @UCL Apply for a MSc / PhD with us! ⬇️
London, UK
Joined October 2011
Congratulations to our DPU colleagues on their 2024–25 promotions (effective 01 October 2025)! 🎉 . Dr Alessio Kolioulis – Associate Professor.Dr Kamna Patel – Professor of Critical Development Studies. 🔗 Read the announcement:
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💬 “Becoming the first in my family to earn a master’s means becoming a role model for girls like me.” . Effie Atieno’s story is one of purpose, perseverance & opportunity, thanks to The Bartlett Promise Sub-Saharan Africa #Scholarship. 🔗 Read more:
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Read our 2023 report in partnership with @CatalyticAction and supported by @MENASP1 ⤵️. 🔗
Five years on from the Beirut Port explosion, justice remains elusive and recovery continues. In Karantina, we’re still here. With children & families, we transform public spaces into sites of healing & hope. Through research & co-design community-led recovery matters. @dpu_ucl
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📸 Did you miss our DPU Photography Competition winning entries?. These three images capture urban life during our overseas practice engagements. 🥇 Serra Utkum Ikiz – São Paulo, Brazil.🥈 Jingzhi Fen – Marrakech.🥉 Bennedictus Bagustantyo – Cebu, Philippines
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🎉 Exciting news! Sunny Kumar Gupta, an incoming Urban Development Planning MSc student, has been awarded the prestigious Inlaks Scholarship that supports young Indian graduates. 🌍🏅. He’ll focus on planning with communities, not just for them. 🔗
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In part one of our two-part series introducing the seven Inlaks Scholars for 2025, meet Sunny Kumar Gupta, Tansi Fotedar, Archis Mukhopadhyay and Jasmeen Kaur Brar.
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🏆 Congrats to Dr Paroj Banerjee on receiving the @USForg Seminar Series Award for her project, 'Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decentre urban knowledge'. 🔍 Learn more:
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🎬 DPU Short Film Competition 2025 . We're rounding up our showcase from this year's competition with our winning short film. 📍 Dinhi sa Yuta (Here on Earth) – Cebu, Philippines.▶️ Watch now: Thank you to all our students for their submissions! 👏
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🎬 DPU Short Film Competition 2025 . This year's runner up created by BUDD MSc students, investigates São Paulo’s housing landscape using "precarious togetherness" and the framework of Rhythms of Negotiation. 📍 Rhythms of Negotiation .▶️
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🎬 DPU Short Film Competition 2025. We're showcasing our students' fieldwork experiences over the coming days, starting with our shortlisted films:. 📍 Redefining Spaces, Reclaiming Worthiness.▶️ 📍Poetics of Reparative Belonging.▶️
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📕 Explore the 'Short History of the Development Planning Unit'. Celebrate 70 years of DPU's journey from its inception in 1954 to becoming a leading department at UCL. 🔗 Read here:
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📢 Settler Colonial Urbanism(s) and infrastructural changes in Palestine. Join Prof Haim Yacobi & Chloe Chbat (@OfficialUoM) on 15 September as they explore how settler colonialism shapes urban & infrastructural transformations in Palestine. 🔗 Register:
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📢 Check out DPU News Issue 75. This DPU70 special edition, 'Mobilising Learning for Change: 40 Years of Gender in the DPU' by Prof Caren Levy highlights the contributions and milestones in gender focused development planning. 🔗 Read the issue:
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RT @ACAMH_CEO: #OpenAccess Special Issue Debate.Liza Griffin (@dpu_ucl) et al. explore urban vs rural environments – which is better for #M….
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There is growing evidence about the positive impact of greenspaces on mental health and wellbeing. In their various forms, greenspaces such as parks, gardens, sports fields, and open spaces serve as...
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📸 DPU Photography Competition.🥇 Winner: Serra Utkum Ikiz (BUDD MSc).“Layered realities of contemporary urban life” – São Paulo, Brazil . Posters and graffiti tell stories of struggles and dreams. A man mirrors the mural behind, reflecting the connection between people and art.
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📸 DPU Photography Competition.🥈 Runner up: Jingzhi Fen (HUD MSc)."Marrakech – Informality in the City" – Marrakech, Morocco . This photo explores the layered realities of informality in the city, offering a visual reflection on how informal urban systems shape everyday life.
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📸 DPU Photography Competition.🥉 3rd Place: Bennedictus Bagustantyo (UDP MSc).“Bridging Futures, Rooted in Reality” – Cebu, Philippines. From the rooftops of Carbon Market the CCLEX stretches across, while the surrounding settlements remain the true foundations of the city.
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Congratulations to Said Mahathir on defending his thesis on religious infrastructure in London 🌟. Read more about his research on how the distribution and network of Muslim religious spaces reflect broader socio-political and economic dynamics. 🔗
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Congratulations to our DPU colleagues on their 2024–25 promotions (effective 01 October 2025)! 🎉 . Dr Alessio Kolioulis – Associate Professor.Dr Kamna Patel – Professor of Critical Development Studies. 🔗 Read the announcement:
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🎉 Exciting news! Sunny Kumar Gupta, an incoming Urban Development Planning MSc student, has been awarded the prestigious Inlaks Scholarship that supports young Indian graduates. 🌍🏅. He’ll focus on planning with communities, not just for them. 🔗
inlaksfoundation.org
In part one of our two-part series introducing the seven Inlaks Scholars for 2025, meet Sunny Kumar Gupta, Tansi Fotedar, Archis Mukhopadhyay and Jasmeen Kaur Brar.
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