The Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, Learning Neighbourhoods and Cities (SHLC) is hosting an online seminar on a collaborative research project they funded in which the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning was involved.
Title: Exploring Liveability in Regional Cities in Bangladesh
Date: 16th June 2020
Time: 11:00-12:30 (SA time)
Registration for Zoom link: click here
The seminar presents research findings from an interdisciplinary project exploring ‘liveability’ in Mongla and Noapara in south-western Bangladesh. Speakers will showcase findings from storytelling workshops, photoessays, theatre performances, household surveys, interviews and more. The project was conceived and run in partnership between the the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning,the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Independent University of Bangladesh and the Institute for Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University. It was funded by the SHLC via UK Research and Innovation, and administered through the Economic and Social Research Council, as part of the UK Government’s Global Challenges Research Fund. More details on the seminar can be found here.
The speakers for the event are:
Mike Osborne, University of Glasgow and Co-Investigator SHLC
Hanna Ruszczyk, Institute of Hazard Risk and Resilience, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
Istiakh Ahmed, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Independent University, Bangladesh
Alex Halligey, South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
