COP29 – Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation

GCHU Podcast Series launched!

The GCHU have today launched a podcast series hosted by GCHU Research Associate and Kellogg College Visiting Fellow Dr Katherine Maxwell discussing COP29 outcomes for sustainable cities. The limited series podcast provides a thought-provoking summary of COP29, drawing on global…

07 Nov

Reflections from the Workshop: The Future of Low Carbon Health and Care

The Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation (GCHU) partnered with the Centre for Personalised Medicine and the National Institute of Health Research Applied Research Collaboration Oxford and Thames Valley, to run a workshop on the Future of Low Carbon Health…

31 Oct

Weaving Sustainability into Venice’s Margins: Reimagining Tronchetto

The project reimagines Venice's Tronchetto island as a connected, community-centred and ecologically resilient neighbourhood, showing how thoughtful, small-scale interventions can foster meaningful and lasting urban sustainability.

21 Jul

Urban Futures Across Borders: Reflections from a Visiting Research Associate

GCHU Visiting Global Research Associate Dr Tashanna Walker shares reflections from her time in Oxford, exploring the intersections of urban security, redevelopment, and postcolonial resilience in Kingston, Jamaica, while contributing Caribbean perspectives to global dialogues on urban precarity and policy.

07 Jul

What is an adaptive city and what would it look like if you saw one?

In this blog, GCHU Research Associate Timothy J. Dixon explores the evolution of the smart city concept and why, in an era of escalating climate, social, and economic shocks, cities must go beyond tech-driven solutions to become adaptive urban systems.

23 Jun

How can deliberative democracy support climate justice? A panel discussion

GCHU Research Associate Dr Alison Chisholm shares insights from the Deliberative Democracy and Climate Justice panel discussion held in Oxford as part of the Right Here Right Now global summit.

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