News & Events
GIS Reseach Fellow Job Vacancy
We are looking for someone with good GIS skills to join our staff team and support a number of our key projects. Closing date is 3rd May. For more details....
Cities to Evaluate Victoria BID's Clean and Green Initiative
In conjuction with the Stockholm Environment Institute at York University the Cities Institute has won a contract to evaluate the Clean and Green Initiative being led by the Victoria Business Improvement District. For details
New Contracts to Evaluate the Healthy Catering Initiative
Following a study of fast food outlets in Tower Hamlets Sue Bagwell (along with Simon Doff from LMU's Food Science dept) has been asked to evaluate the implementation of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Heath's Healthy Catering Initiative. A pan-London study is being undertaken for the GLA/CIEH and a more detailed qualitative study for 3 West London Boroughs. For details
Do you manage a coastal area?
As part of the SECOA project research, a short online survey to gather information on the difficulties practitioners involved in managing coastal areas face when trying to implement the principles of ICZM. The survey is aimed to reach practitioners involved in managing coastal areas in a range of aspects (e.g. flood and erosion risk management; nature conservation; urban planning etc.). The survey takes only about 7 min, to assist in this research please access: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5PF9PTM.
EU Funding Secured for Electric Mobility Network Project
A successful bid has been won from the EU Interreg IVB Programme for a 3 year project designed to foster e-mobility and the use of electric car transport across the North Sea region. Cities Insitute will be working with a network of local authorities, universities and not for profit organisations drawn from 7 EU countries. For further details
Cities Institute providing advice on the All London Green Grid
Professor Ken Worpole recently acted a a member of an Expert Panel advising
the Mayor¹s Design Advisory Panel on the Draft SPG All London Green Grid.
Cities Institute in the News
Dr Frances Hollis's 'workhome' research featured in the Evening Standard and on the University's website recently. See http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23975166-working-from-home-is-a-social-phenomena.do and /news/latest-news/2011/august/home-is-where-the-work-is.cfm
Professor Graeme Evans was interviewed by the BBC as part of a programme about the local job opportunities that may or may not arise from the Olympic Games. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14378716
Living Places
Cities Institute has been commissioned to undertake a detailed mapping and place-making strategy in L.B.Havering aspart of the national Living Places initiative. The study builds on the methodology developed for the national Cultural Mapping toolkit undertaken for the DCMS
www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/research_and_statistics/7290.aspx#Culture
AHRC Connected Communities Grant
A knowledge exchange grant has been awarded under this cross-research Council programmee programme to Cities Institute on the use of spatial and visualisation methods for community engagement. The award will fund 3 workshops to be held in London, York and Dundee, with
partners, the University’s of York and Abertay.
Recent Events
Dr Luciana S. Esteves gave a presentation about our SECOA project and the research conducted in the UK study sites during the SUSCOD meeting held from 26-28 March
2012 in Harwich (Essex, UK). The SUSCOD project aims to develop a practical tool (the ICZM-assistant) to assist practitioners in enhancing the implementation of the integrated coastal zone principles in their projects or organisation. For more information see http://www.suscod.eu/.
A SECOA project focus group (led by Luciana S. Esteves, Jo Foord and Helene Draux) was held on 22nd March 2012 with stakeholders of Farlington Marshes, Portsmouth to gather their views on the future management of the Marshes. This was part of a new transparent and inclusive approach being developed by the project to incorporate the opinion of stakeholders and the public in decision making concerning land use conflicts in multifunctional areas.
Graeme Evans was among a panel of experts speaking at a roundtable discussion on Tech City entitled "Place and Space:What’s happening in East London?" A summary of the discussion is now available online here:http://www.policyconnect.org.uk/apdig/design-and-tech-city
Over 50 people attended a 1 day conference on 'Events Management' organised by Cities Institute on 14th September. The presentations can be downloaded here:
New Publications
Graeme Evans (2012): Hold back the night: Nuit Blanche and all-night events in
capital cities, Current Issues in Tourism, 15:1-2, 35-49
Joan Smith (with Muhic Dizdarevic )(2011) Young Homeless People in the Czech Republic: A Comparative Perspective, European Journal of Homelessness 5(1) 67-85
Sue Bagwell (2011) 'The role of independent fast-food outlets in obesogenic environments: a case study of East London in the UK' Environment and Planning A 41 pp2217-2236
Luciana S. Esteves., Brown, J.M.; Williams, J.J. & Lymbery, G. (2011).
Quantifying thresholds for significant dune erosion along the Sefton
Coast, Northwest England. Geomorphology, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X11001085
Luciana S. Esteves; Williams, J.J. & Brown, J.M. (2011). Looking for evidence
of climate change impacts in the eastern Irish Sea. Natural Hazards
and Earth Systems, 11, 1641-1656. http://eproceedings.worldscinet.com/9789814355537/9789814355537_0052.html
Luciana S. Esteves and Williams, J.J. (2011). Characterising the impact of
significant dune erosion along the Sefton Coast, NW England. Coastal
Sediments’11, 684-697. http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1641/2011/nhess-11-1641-2011.html
