Research Projects
Housing Justice
Housing is a key site of environmental justice struggles. Across the Anglian region, this project explores pathways for developing more just housing futures, with two projects situated in Norwich and Great Yarmouth. Funded through and AHRC Accelerator Impact Grant (2023-2025), the project aims to develop collaborative ties to key stakeholders to collectively build more just forms of housing in both Norwich and Great Yarmouth.
Events:
The Vertical City
Recent decades bear witness to an intense period of construction of skyscrapers and tall buildings globally. As markers of urban modernity, high-rise buildings imprint themselves on the city from where they emerge changing the environmental conditions of urban living. Funded through the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, a CCA-WRI Research Fellowship and Public Engagement Funds from Queen Mary University and University of East Anglia, this project develops a creative-collaborative method that accounts for the impacts that intense high-rise development has on residential communities in London.
Publications:
Urban Heat
This project explores the contested landscape of heat imaginaries across urban India and Greece. By drawing attention to how people navigate extreme heat in their daily lives, the project draws attention to everyday practices of how residents make sense of extreme climate conditions in ways that challenge numerical understandings of heat. The project is funded through a Wolfson British Academy Research Fellowship.
The Nocturnal City
This project explores how the uneven distribution of and access to light and darkness in the city reshapes geographies of urban inequality. This is particularly evident within densifying urban landscapes, where the redistribution of daylight, sunlight and shadow impacts people’s ability to form meaningful attachments to the places in which they dwell. Through longitudinal, ethnographic research, this project documents the experiential, emotional and material harms that result from environmental changes in light and darkness, while deepening understandings of how people cope with and maintain meaningful lives under deteriorating living conditions. The research is funded through a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, a CCA-WRI Research Fellowship and Public Engagement Funds from Queen Mary University and University of East Anglia.
Outputs:
Just Urban Alliance 