The Urban Futures research group seeks to contribute to a more sustainable and just future by studying some of the most pressing issues and challenges facing cities today. Focused both on current and future urban phenomena, the group conducts critical and rigorous geographic research broadly covering five main themes:
- Care, communities and social reproduction in the unequal city
- Critical geographies of race, gender and migration
- Digital and platform urbanism
- Housing and infrastructural futures
- Urban cultural geography
Through this expertise, we examine how visions and practices of urban futures in planning, governance, citizenship and everyday life are being imagined, contested and lived experienced by people across the world. We do this through working in partnership with communities and policymakers and by drawing on our group’s diverse and innovative methodological approaches including in-depth qualitative and practice-based creative and participatory methods (ethnographic, archival, discursive, feminist, walk-along, sensory, visual and embodied methods); quantitative surveys and secondary analysis; and urban analytics, (participatory) modelling, and machine learning.
Group lead
Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Cities