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The discipline has an impressive track record in winning major UK and international funding from bodies including INNOVATE UK, RCUK, EU, GRCF in areas from core ‘science’ research to public engagements, training, capacity building and digital modelling.

Our vision is to enhance research productivity, increase funded research, grow the number of research students and PDRAs, facilitate integrated scholarly activity and promote the discipline as a leading hub for global research. In this context, our research priorities are guided by global challenges and a need to achieve sustainable development in our built and natural environment.  

KEY RESEARCH PROJECTS

What Would an Age-Friendly City Look Like?
Aging in the Global South

This project explores the role of city planning and design on providing age-friendly environments that are free from physical and social barriers and supported by policies, systems, services, products and technologies to promote health and build and maintain physical and mental capacity across the life course.


Digital Modelling for Planning Practice and Research
VU.CITY

VU.CITY  is the most accessible, accurate and interactive 3-d platform in the world. It enables everyone in the planning and development process to make faster and better informed decisions, helping create a better future for all.


All Eyes on Us: Big Data for Surveillance in Society
Emerging technologies

The built environment influences mobility and transportation, but objective study of environmental influences on human behaviours is challenging. Portable sensors like Go-Pro cameras provide a unique method to capture mobility. Using qualitative methodology, we use GoPros as a tool to capture environmental factors that affect physical activity in public spaces.


Research Expertise of Planning Staff:

  • Environmentally sustainable and resilient development that tackles the challenges presented for cities, climate, environment, communities and blue growth.
  • The planning of future sustainable cities which are agile and future ready, for example for near zero energy autonomous vehicles.
  • Healthy cities, and age-friendly places.
  • Affordable, reliable and environmentally sustainable renewable energy. 
  • Technological innovation for the digital transformation of Planning
  • Economic development
  • Illegal drugs
  • Migration
  • Rural design
  • Public Health
  • City branding
  • Neoliberal Urbanism

Impact in Planning

Fiona Magowan
Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation

 

Professor Fiona Magowan (PI). AHRC (2017-2021)

This project investigates the effects of music, sound and storytelling in conflict and post-conflict communities and their distribution through digital media activities. Comparative case studies in the Middle East, Brazil and Northern Ireland serve as a basis for evaluating how sound is used to articulate experiences of violence, to support narratives of resistance and to promote peace building.

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Understanding Unbelief

 

Dr. Jonathan Lanman (CI). John Templeton Foundation (2016-2019)

Understanding Unbelief is a major research programme aiming to advance the scientific understanding of atheism and other forms of so-called ‘unbelief’ around the world. Its central research questions concern the nature and diversity of ‘unbelief’. As well as core research,  the programme has awarded grants to the value of £1.25m for new research and public engagement activities. 

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Counting our Losses: Social Entrepreneurship, Refugees and Urban Transformation

Dr Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou and Dr Fiona Murphy. British Academy (2018-2019)

This project consolidates an ongoing collaboration between Queen’s and Bilgi University Istanbul to systematically study the ‘loss-displacement-integration’ nexus in Istanbul. It offers new ways of assessing the impact of economic loss on the everyday lives of refugees, and its recovery, by examining the role of social entrepreneurship and labour politics in refugee ‘integration’.

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