‘Dancing is easier than walking; Music is easier than language’

By Elahe Karimnia Through this workshop, we aimed to show strings of our thoughts, feelings, doings, and knowings that pass ...

From Garden Suburb to Concrete City: the example of Maadi in Southern Cairo

by Amir Gohar Maadi, located in southern Cairo, has long been known as an upscale residential district distinguished by quiet ...

What Muslim Refugee Women’s Everyday Geographies Reveal About “Integration” in Bristol

by Reem Elnady In the UK, refugee integration is often framed as a set of measurable outcomes—employment, language skills, “shared ...

Co-Designing Net Zero in Historic Communities: Lessons from Sea Mills

by Katy Karampour How can historic communities transition to net zero without losing their heritage identity?This question guided our recent ...

Future infrastructure planners: is there an appetite for infrastructure planning in young planners?

by Hannah Hickman Earlier in the year, an excellent colleague asked if I would present at the Bristol Planning Law ...

Rediscovering motivation at the Earthwatch “Science Camp”

by Hannah E. McConnell Great expectations Like many other PhD students I am sure, I found myself struggling to stay ...

Rethinking Inclusion and Empathy in Placemaking

by Hooman Foroughmand Araabi The concept of place lies at the centre of urban design and planning. Traditionally, place has ...

Waste management at end of life of wind turbines: reflection on my VC-ECR research journey

by Carla De Laurentis The 31st of July 2025 marked the end of my Vice Chancellor's Early Career Researcher (VC-ECR) ...

Beyond the Pavement: Learning the Cumulative Power of Everyday Green Spaces

Joseph Harbourd As part of my MSc in Sustainable Development in Practice, I am undertaking an internship, and I have ...

Beyond Methods: Co-Creating Urban Knowledge with Muslim Refugee Women

by Reem Elnady When I first began my PhD, I thought I was designing a study. What I did not ...

How UWE Bristol students use and experience campus greenspaces

by Yarden Woolf Over the last two and a half years, I have been researching some of the greenspaces on ...

What’s needed for urban development to better deliver for biodiversity? Examining the goals, co-benefits, barriers and enablers to biodiversity delivery in new urban development and redevelopment

by Philippa Hughes, Danielle Sinnett and Jessica Lamond Biodiversity loss is a global threat. Urban development is a major contributing ...