Past projects
Climate Resilient Cities and Infrastructure (RESIN)
This project combines seventeen partners experienced in urban resilience and climate change.
Devo Manc hub
This research project focuses on exploring Greater Manchester’s devolution future.
Eco-Urbanisation
Promoting sustainable development in metropolitan regions of China.
European Energy Poverty Observatory
EPOV is aimed at engendering transformational change in knowledge about the extent of energy poverty in Europe, and measures to combat it.
EVALUATE
Energy Vulnerability and Urban Transitions in Europe (EVALUATE) is a European Research Council-funded project, underway since March 2013.
Jam and Justice
Jam and Justice aims to create a unique space for social innovation to co-produce, test and learn from new ways of governing cities.
Pandemics
This project investigates preparedness against global pandemics, focusing principally on the social implications that arise.
Producing Urban Asylum
Investigating the politics of urban asylum in contemporary Britain.
PROMISE
PROMISE is a collaborative research project exploring young people’s role in shaping society, focussing specifically on young people ‘in conflict’ with authority.
Triangulum
A project funded by the European Union to demonstrate cutting-edge smart city technologies and roll them out across the globe.