City-REDI/WMREDI Round Up – July 2024

Events – presenting work/ speaking engagements 1-3 July, Anne Green attended the Population Geography conference in Belfast. 8-12 July, Sara Hassan and Annum Rafique attended the U21 Early Career Inclusive Energy Transitions workshop in Brisbane, and Sara presented research about inclusivity, communities and sustainable transport in the energy transition. 9 July, Bec Riley spoke at the … Continue reading “City-REDI/WMREDI Round Up – July 2024”

E Mobility Hubs in the UK and Europe: Highlights of the Current Research (By My Awesome Research Team)

On Thursday 27 June 2024, Dr. Dilum Dissanayake, Associate Professor of Transportation Planning at the University of Birmingham, joined City-REDI for our last academic seminar of the year. The seminar delved into shared electric mobility hubs (eHUBs) and the research approaches used to understand market segmentation, mode substitution patterns, transport user preferences, and spatial transferability. … Continue reading “E Mobility Hubs in the UK and Europe: Highlights of the Current Research (By My Awesome Research Team)”

City-REDI/WMREDI Round Up – May and June 2024

Events – presenting work/ speaking engagements 7 May, members of City-REDI attended the Birmingham Anchor Network Co-ordination group. 15 May, members of City-REDI attended the Midlands Engine research, intelligence and policy partnership. 16 May, City-REDI held an academic seminar with Helen Jarvis from the University of Newcastle: Civic Universities for a Civil Society: (Un)Learning Habits … Continue reading “City-REDI/WMREDI Round Up – May and June 2024”

Civic Universities for a Civil Society: (Un)Learning Habits of Impact, Engagement, and Action for Change

On 16 May, City-REDI held its fourth external seminar of 2024, featuring Helen Jarvis from Newcastle University with an online webinar about community organising as a place-based theory and method of civic university engagement. The seminar follows the publication of Professor Helen Jarvis’s paper ‘Community organising in higher education: activist community-engaged learning in geography’, highlighting … Continue reading “Civic Universities for a Civil Society: (Un)Learning Habits of Impact, Engagement, and Action for Change”

City-REDI Wins Impact Award

Following the success at the 2024 Impact Awards, City-REDI reflects on the team’s influential research on economics, commerce and productivity. The University of Birmingham performs cutting-edge research in a variety of fields. No two projects are the same, but they all require significant amounts of time and planning to ensure that our research has civic … Continue reading “City-REDI Wins Impact Award”