Come and work with CASA: UCL and Alleyn’s School are coming together through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership. We're seeking a Digital Twin Integration Specialist (Research Fellow/Research Assistant), to be based at Alleyn's in Dulwich, south London.
Learn more & apply: https://tinyurl.com/jkt6x7rs
Congratulations to CASA Research Fellow, Clara Peiret-García, on receiving a @sdruk.bsky.social Fellowship!
Her project will combine smart mobility data with surveys to understand diverse travel patterns, using HASP and GeoDS to support fair post‑pandemic transport planning.
https://bit.ly/4co5e4m
Black and white portrait of Mike Collins against a leafy backdrop.
We are saddened to share the passing of Professor Michael Collins, a respected member of The Bartlett community.
His contributions to planning research, education and practice leave a lasting legacy.
Read more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/2026/feb/memoriam-professor-michael-collins
CASA PhD student Matthew Whearty and researchers Roberto Murcio and Joana Barros examine new passenger rail projects in Greater London, finding no significant social deprivation effects within a 15‑minute walk and raising wider questions about social outcomes.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4qwIiDA
Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨
#UCL200 #LoveUCL
At each annual conference we have an early career plenary lecture and in Belfast this May that lecture will be given by Dr Ruth Neville @ruthneville20.bsky.social a research fellow in computational social science at @casaucl.bsky.social. Abstract submission deadline is Friday tinyurl.com/9szbc49y
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If you're applying for our Connected Environments MSc, don't miss the UCL East Postgraduate Open Evening, featuring a specialist space tour of the Connected Environments Lab.
📍 UCL East, Marshgate
🗓️ 17:00 - 19:30, Wednesday 25 February
Register now: bit.ly/3O0VBPb
Great write-up by John 👇
CASA postdoc Mateo Seré co-authored this paper. We are stoked it’s out in AER!
🚨🎓📚 I am super-excited to be joining the Economic Geography editorial board. Many thanks to the editors for having me!
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rec...
Follow EG here: @econgeog-journal.bsky.social
Please send us your papers :)
CASA Profs Max Nathan and Neave O'Clery, PhD student Bohao Su and Research Fellow Laura Mazzarino were at the recent Geography of Innovation conference in Budapest.
The team presented work on migration, global supply chains, innovation networks and models for industrial diversification.
CASA's Ruth Neville has been announced as one of ten 2026 UCL Policy Fellows, co‑delivering projects for local needs. Ruth is among six Local Authority Policy Fellows, supporting policy development at Newham Council through population trend analysis.
Find out more: https://tinyurl.com/cj7aenwa
Today in the CASA Seminar Series: Sophie Flinders and Chris Hayes (Common Wealth) analyse privatisation of essential services and ask: Who Owns Britain?
🗓️ 16:00, Wed 28 Jan
📍 CASA Seminar Room, 90 Tottenham Court Road
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/jan/casa-seminar-series-2025-26
Congratulations to Professor Neave O'Clery on being awarded a grant from the ReCIPE programme, a CEPR initiative funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, for her project, 'Does economic entanglement reduce the risk of escalation from economic to military interstate conflict?'.
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🎭 Are creative industries quietly remodeling cities?
🌃 In England and Wales, the association between creative activity and neighborhood gentrification is modest yet highly context-dependent—though evidently strong in large cities like London.
🔗 Read more at
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
#EconGeography
Professor Max Nathan/the UCL Economic Geography Group have been awarded the UCL Grassroots Research Culture Seed Fund 2025/26, which funds locally led projects to improve UCL's research culture.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/news/2025/dec/ucl-grassroots-research-culture-seed-fund-202526-recipients
The CASA Connected Environments Lab, led by Prof Duncan Wilson & Prof Steven Gray, has built an IoT Bus Tracker for the shuttle service between Stratford Station & UCL East, designed and operated by students.
https://studentsunionucl.org/articles/ucl-east-shuttle-bus-your-journey-just-got-easier
The CASA Seminar Series is back!
Jonathan Bourne, THE 3TC AI
A Decade of OCOD: Analysing ten years offshore owned residential property in England & Wales
🗓️ 16:00-17:00, 14 January
📍 CASA Seminar Room, 90 Tottenham Court Road
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/jan/casa-seminar-series-2025-26
And a lot of our researchers publish their research and teaching code to GitHub too! (Think we need a dedicated page to point to all the resources!)
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CASA is now closed for the festive break, reopening for 2026 on Monday 05 January.
We'd like to thank all of our students and staff for all your hard work and commitment in 2025.
Wishing a merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all our students, staff, friends and alumni!
CASA recently held a virtual open day for prospective master's students, providing an insight into our innovative programmes and committed staff.
Check out the video to recap: https://bit.ly/3Y2xTDW
Find out more about our master's programmes: https://bit.ly/3KT2Ya8
#UCL #Bartlett #CASA #MSc
Promotional graphic for the CUPUM 2025 book, titled 'Digital-Era Urban Transformations', featuring a cover image of a cityscape at dusk. The background is a purple grid design. The book is edited by Dr Robert Goodspeed, Dr Esra Suel, Dr Huanfa Chen, Dr Joana Barros and Prof Christopher Pettit.
The CUPUM 2025 book is now published 📚
'Digital-Era Urban Transformations' examines how AI, big data and urban sensing are reshaping cities. Co-edited by three CASA researchers, with two chapters from the department.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3Y2z0DG
CASA kicked off our famous annual Christmas party earlier this week with a trip to V&A East Storehouse. 😍
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Funded by @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social and Historic England, CASA Assoc Prof @huanfa.bsky.social has been working with @warmwelcomeuk.bsky.social to improve access to Warm Welcome Spaces. A new dashboard maps 5,500+ UK spaces, showing proximity boosts awareness for vulnerable groups.
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Just published in Nature Cities, a study led by recent CASA PhD graduate Andrew Renninger advances our understanding of urban inequality by focusing on experienced socioeconomic segregation, or daily encounters between individuals of differing socio-economic groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
CASA staff Philyoung Jeong and Dr Duncan Smith have published a new working paper on accessibility to cycle routes in London, examining new cycling indicators for tracking cycle network development, gaps in the network and challenges faced by vulnerable cyclists.
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Most US cities have rings of isolation in suburban areas and segregated pockets of near the urban core, shaped by race, wealth, and proximity to downtown, finds a new study of 383 American cities, led by Andrew Renninger @casaucl.bsky.social @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
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Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Professor of Cities & Regions, gave a plenary talk this week at ISOCARP61, the World Planning Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
His talk, ‘Urban Futures: Visioning the Planning of Places through Innovation’, examined the potential role of planning to make a difference in places.
Can live data streams from sensors - ‘digital twins’ - cut energy use & carbon emissions in university buildings?
A new study by CASA doctoral student William Markiewicz & Prof Duncan Wilson focuses on UCL & Yale buildings, finding major efficiency issues at both sites.
doi.org/10.3389/fene...
Dr Ollie Ballinger has contributed to the British Library’s latest exhibition, 'Secret Maps'. It includes his work with investigative journalism organisation Bellingcat on “dark ships", which disable their public tracking systems to hide their identity and activity.
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...
CASA research in @nytimes.com: Ollie Ballinger built software to track naval vessels via open-source satellite data, revealing patterns in Caribbean maritime activity.
Read the full story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
