Challenges in Changing Cities (2021-2024)
About us
From 2021-2024, we undertook and supported cutting-edge research on emergent challenges and opportunities of urban transformations. We did so by nurturing a collaborative, interdisciplinary space capable of interconnecting multiple urban dimensions (cultural, economic, environmental, health, social, technological etc.). Equally important, we sough to incorporate policy and practice perspectives upfront in our research. Throughout our time as an IRT, we engaged in methodological innovation, to enable sophisticated integrated and outcome-oriented analysis.
What Challenges in Changing Cities Means to Me
This theme aimmed to lead and facilitate contemporary and interdisciplinary social science research on cities, building on Glasgow's disciplinary strengths in Urban Studies. Topics we have explored include emotional responses to built heritage, changing demographics and public health, and the role of democracy and community participation.
View these short videos from our theme leaders and discover what the Challenges in Changing Cities theme means to them and their research.