Pathway 8: Urbanisation, Social Change & Urban Transformation (USCT)

Pathway Leads

Kings’s College London: Dr Zheng Wang

Queen Mary University of London: Sam Halvorsen

Imperial College London: Dr Aruna Sivakumar

Student Pathway Representative

Elias Adan Yassin: elias.yassin@kcl.ac.uk

Estelle Marie Broyer: e.m.broyer@qmul.ac.uk

Pathway mailing list

To contact students on this LISS DTP pathway please email:

liss-usct@qmul.ac.uk

Research Area:

The Environment & Urban Life

Pathway 8: Urbanisation, Social Change & Urban Transformation

Pathway 9: Political Ecology, Energy & Environmental Health

The pathway will make a distinctive contribution to areas such as the ESRC’s strategic priorities on sustainable growth and a vibrant and fair society by exploring ways to improve urban space and urban societies, conceptually, methodologically and substantively. These issues span the past, present and future of cities and urban environments in the global South and North, ranging from development of a walkable, healthy and sustainably-built environment to prevention of crime and disasters by design, and sustaining increasingly diverse communities across gender, age, ethnicity and sexuality. The interdisciplinary nature of this pathway involves collaboration between world-leading researchers in economics, geography, sociology, politics, health, environmental studies and engineering.

There are five training sub-pathways:

A. Urban Health & Wellbeing

Focuses on understanding the spatial patterns of urban health and inequalities, the consequences for the provision of urban healthcare services and the use of new healthcare technologies for both acute and chronic care.

King’s College London
MSc Global Health & Social Justice

Queen Mary University of London
MRes Global Health Geographies

Imperial College
MSc Environmental Technology

B. Urban Spatial Politics

Develops critical assessments of urban citizenship and governance, the management and contestation of urban public space, and urban violence, crime and security.

King’s College London
MSc Environment, Politics & Globalisation
MSc Global Health & Social Justice
MSc Sustainable Cities

Queen Mary University of London
MRes Geography

C. Digital Innovation in Cities

Focuses on the implications of the explosive growth in new digital data and data-driven innovation and services for urban socio-economic processes, urban structure and urban living.

King’s College London
MA Big Data in Culture & Society

Imperial College
MSc Environmental Technology
MSc Transport

D. Home, Urban Lives & the Built Environment

Explores the relationship between the processes of urban infrastructure development, the residential property market and housing policy, urban regeneration, gentrification, home and homelessness, alongside the diversity of urban lives and experiences of the city and broader processes of urban demographic change.

King’s College London
MSc Sustainable Cities
MA/MSc Geography

Queen Mary University of London
MRes Cities & Cultures

E. Migration, Mobility & Flow

Explores both the drivers of and the consequences that follow migration, the flows of commodities and information from, to and within the city and processes of urban mobility.