ISULabaNtu

December 04, 2017

You can read our second project newsletter here. A lower resolution version is available here. Please feel free to share online and/or print and distribute.

October 17, 2017

Dr Claudia Loggia attended the Global Engagement Meeting organized by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and the UK Research Councils in Bogota, Colombia.

October 10, 2017

In June 2017, Dr Maria Christina Georgiadou and Dr Claudia Loggia attended the Architecture, Media, Politics and Society (AMPS) conference in Derby, UK

June 13, 2017

Read about the completion of the third of three fieldwork visits by our Phase 2 team, Dr Isis Nunez Ferrera, Ben Fagan-Watson, and Dr Pete Barbrook-Johnson, to Durban.

May 29, 2017

In May 2017, Dr Maria Christina Georgiadou and Dr Priti Parikh visited Durban to begin fieldwork for their own Phase 3 (Integrated Closed Loop Environmental Management Systems) and Phase 4 (Project Management and Skills Enhancement in Construction), respectively.

May 21, 2017

Our Co-Investigator Dr Isis Nunez Ferrera (University of Westminster) will be in Sheffield, UK, this week to present at the Sheffield-Wits PhD Newton Exchange Programme Colloquium on Demystifying Qualitative Analysis. 

March 14, 2017

Have a watch of our very own Dr Priti Parikh (UCL) performing at Engineering Showoff (part of the Science Showoff family of events).

March 14, 2017

Dr Maria Christina Georgiadou (Senior Lecturer) with Martin Ball (Principal Lecturer) and Rob Garvey (Senior Lecturer) from the Department of Property and Construction, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment visited Durban this February to deliver a three-day training course on Project Management, Procurement and Digital Construction at the School of Built Environment and Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).

January 10, 2017

The University of Westminster (the host institution of our principle investigator and several co-investigators) is offering MPhil/PhD studentships, to start in September 2017.

December 16, 2016

Read our first project newsletter - with updates on our recent activities and plans for the coming year.

October 23, 2016

Some reaction to our interactive side event at the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador

October 10, 2016

We are delighted to announce we will be presenting the ISULabaNtu project at a side event at the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador on 17th October 2016 at 9.30am in room R6. 

September 15, 2016

Claudia Loggia, Judith Ojo-Aromokudu and Christina Georgiadou were delighted to attend and present at the ISOCARPconference in Durban this week.

July 05, 2016

In what turned out to be one of the most successful days in the UK team’s recent visit to Durban, the project’s Community Researchers took part in their first formal training session with the research teams from the UK and South Africa

July 06, 2016

Dr Maria Christina Georgiadou and Dr Isis Nunez Ferrera from the University of Westminster were delighted to visit the South Africa project team and our case study sites in Durban this June.

April 10, 2016

Ben Fagan-Watson, Dr Isis Nunez-Ferrera and Dr. Kevin Burchell delivered a training on action research and participatory approaches for our South African partners and a multidisciplinary group of colleagues from faculties across University of Westminster. 

April 07, 2016

Dr. Claudia Loggia, from University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban visited University of Westminster as part of Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship awarded in collaboration with Dr Maria Christina Georgiadou, to engage in training and multidisciplinary collaboration with leading academics and practitioners in the UK.