We invite you to join us at a virtual event hosted by UKCDR: Research enablers for impact – accelerating the impact of the UK’s investment in international development...
UKCDR have published a series of success stories studies to highlight the contribution of UK research to meeting global development challenges laid out in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Booklet of a series of eleven success stories demonstrating the global impact of UK research
Long-term research collaborations have introduced sustainability and participation into urban governance and shifted the focus towards safe and resilient urban futures.
Dr Jaideep Gupte, Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Challenge Leader for Cities and Sustainable Infrastructure explores how COVID-19 is reinforcing the world’s need to ‘think’, ‘make’ and ‘live’ our urban environments differently over the next 10 years.
This report details the findings and recommendations of a review of research on the built environment and its intersection with the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the global south.
We are excited to announce we launched a new report and policy briefing on ‘Strengthening research on the built environment and the SDGs’ , exclusively at the World Urban...
The built environment is of strategic importance for attaining the Sustainable Development Goals. Developing it in the right way is a global, cross-sectional challenge and its development needs to be informed by interdisciplinary research.
To mark 10 years of collaboration, we have compiled a compendium of the Disasters Research Group's collective achievements and the work of each of its members on international disaster reduction.
To showcase existing research partnerships and explore the potential for new innovative interdisciplinary collaborations, UK and Kenya hosted a research symposium on ‘Healthy Cities, Housing and Sustainable Infrastructure’ in Nairobi in May 2019. This report represents the collective views of the participants and the opportunities for impact that were identified.