Urbanisation, Planning and Development
As part of this year’s annual American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) convening, UPD Research Student Yimin Zhao won third place (tie) in the China Geography Specialty Group’s student paper competition and received a travel stipend from the group. Yimin’s winning paper is entitled ‘Space as Method: Field Sites and Encounters in Beijing’s Green Belts’. Paper…
UPD cluster Research Student Mara Nogueira-Teixeira recently won the ‘Best Paper at the PhD Level’ in the Latin America Specialty Group’s competition at the AAG annual meeting in Boston, April 2017. Mara’s paper is entitled: ‘Conserving the (segregated) city: the role of the middle-classes in shaping urban space, the case of Belo Horizonte/Brazil’ Paper Abstract: Since…
UPD Cluster members strive to produce high quality teaching. Towards the end of the 2015-16 academic year, several cluster members were nominated for the 2016 LSE Student Union Teaching Excellence competition. The competition is based on student nominations, and the Student Union administer the selection process. Big congratulations to Dr Austin Zeiderman who won the Award for…
Dr. Nancy Holman of LSE Geography and Environment UPD Research Cluster has won the Learning, Teaching and Innovation IGNITE grant for Online Blended Learning. Six projects were awarded funding based on their innovation, scalability and alignment to the School’s Education Strategy. Dr. Holman’s project will support the development of professional skills to use Participatory Action Research to…
Pablo Navarrete, PhD candidate in Regional and Urban Planning, has received a prestigious prize from the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) for their international competition ‘Habitat and Urban Development’. The prize is worth US$15,000 and has been awarded for the proposed paper entitled ‘Do you really want your own house? The impact of ownership on the…
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