UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)
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Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis | @thebartlettucl.bsky.social | Website: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa
CASA's Ollie Ballinger features on the BBC World Service's Global News Podcast and on BBC Radio 5 Live's Drive, on new satellite imagery revealing the scale of destruction in Gaza: Global News Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0pcysqf Drive: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m003259d
Global News Podcast - Too much screen time 'can damage children as badly as poverty' - BBC Sounds
Canadian study links excessive time online to academic or mental health issues
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A new 5-day course for UCL academics and PhD students will help you improve your leadership abilities around data-driven decision-making. Find out more and book your place: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/short-courses/search-courses/leading-data-science-bootcamp-research-decision-making-under-pressure
CASA Honorary Professor Alan Wilson's new book, Leadership and Management: Learning from Experience (Routledge, 2026) tackles the challenges of leadership in complex, fast-changing environments. https://www.routledge.com/Leadership-and-Management-Learning-from-Experience/Wilson/p/book/9781041141570
🚨🎓 I wrote something about Number 10 North. Will it work? How could it change Manchester? And how will we know? maxnathan.medium.com/no-10-north-...
No 10 North: will it work? And how will we know?
No. 10 North is the core of Andy Burnham’s devolution plans. Will it work, how, and can we track its effects?
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I was happy to provide a perspective on the prospects for place-based devolution and engagement for a ‘devolution panel’ for The Conversation this week, in the run up to Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister @casaucl.bsky.social @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 3mo agoOur experts explain how devolution in the UK has worked in practice – and what needs to change.
CASA's Dr Valerio Signorelli has been promoted to Associate Professor. Valerio joined us in 2016 as a Research Associate, then a Lecturer in Connected Environments, contributing to research, teaching and innovation at the intersection of urban environments, digital technologies and immersive media.
Join us this evening for the launch of our master's show: Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show 2026 18:00–20:00, Thu 16 July Book your free ticket: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sense-deploy-communicate-connected-environments-msc-show-2026-opening-tickets-1992202906522
Welcome to Fiona Pacolli as CASA’s new undergraduate intern! Fiona will work with Jon Reades and Ruth Neville on their 'No Space Like Home' project: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/research-projects/2025/oct/no-space-home-addressing-pressing-questions-about-englands-smallest-homes
Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show 2026 From 17 July – 02 August, explore final projects by students graduating from the Connected Environments MSc at UCL East. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/jul/sense-deploy-communicate-connected-environments-msc-show-2026
On Manchesterism, the real defence trade-off, and the Makerfield by-election. Read the latest in HopeWorks: A Progressive Reader. open.substack.com/pub/thisisho...
What's at stake in Makerfield?
Makerfield, Manchesterism, and the fight over defence spending
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CASA Professor Michael Batty was interviewed by Hala Lahlou and Sushmita Ravi from Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia on the evolving role of Building Information Modelling (BIM). ▶️ Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/65XzPo6p350hCh2PDRmsWQ
🚨 👩🎓 👨🎓 📚 PHD OPPORTUNITY! Fully-funded 3 year UCL PhD at @casaucl.bsky.social. Start in October 2026 or February 2027. Deadline to apply is Weds 1 July 23:59 BST. Please share widely! www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/cas...
The CASA Dearden PhD Scholarship
The Dearden Scholarship is open to UK/home students who wish to embark on PhD level study that links to the research interests of CASA academic staff and the research interests of Joel Dearden.
ucl.ac.uk
Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show 2026 From 17 July – 02 August, explore the final projects of students graduating from the Connected Environments MSc at UCL East. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/jul/sense-deploy-communicate-connected-environments-msc-show-2026
🚨 👩🎓 👨🎓 📚 PHD OPPORTUNITY! Fully-funded 3 year UCL PhD at @casaucl.bsky.social. Start in October 2026 or February 2027. Deadline to apply is Weds 1 July 23:59 BST. Please share widely! www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/cas...
The CASA Dearden PhD Scholarship
The Dearden Scholarship is open to UK/home students who wish to embark on PhD level study that links to the research interests of CASA academic staff and the research interests of Joel Dearden.
ucl.ac.uk
🚨 👩🎓 👨🎓 📚 PHD OPPORTUNITY! Fully-funded 3 year UCL PhD at @casaucl.bsky.social. Start in October 2026 or February 2027. Deadline to apply is Weds 1 July 23:59 BST. Please share widely! www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/cas...
The CASA Dearden PhD Scholarship
The Dearden Scholarship is open to UK/home students who wish to embark on PhD level study that links to the research interests of CASA academic staff and the research interests of Joel Dearden.
ucl.ac.uk
Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show 2026 From 17 July – 02 August, explore the final projects of students graduating from the Connected Environments MSc at UCL East. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/jul/sense-deploy-communicate-connected-environments-msc-show-2026
🚨 👩🎓 👨🎓 📚 Fully-funded 3 year UCL PhD coming up at @casaucl.bsky.social: the Joel Dearden Scholarship. Start in October 2026 or February 2027. Home students only. 👉 Please share widely! 👉 Deadline for pre-applications is 1 July. Please look out for the advert - we’ll post it shortly.
✍️ Now hiring! ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships at @casaucl.bsky.social as part of the UBEL DTP 2026 postdoc programme. 🗓️ Pre-registration deadline: Monday 18 May 2026 23:59 UK time. 🗓️ Full deadline: Monday 1 June 2026, 23:59 UK time. 👉 Apply here: ubel-dtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral...
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships - UBEL DTP
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 Entry The UCL, Bloomsbury and East London DTP invites applications for five postdoctoral fellowships (PDFs) to be based within departments at the six partner institu...
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Why do patients travel further for healthcare, even when a hospital is nearby? A new study from a team including CASA’s Michael Batty and Chen Zhong shows that over 80% of patients bypass their nearest hospital. Read the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00100-6
We're pleased to welcome César Marín-Flores, a PhD student at Aalto University working under the supervision of Dr Henrikki Tenkanen, who is currently joining us as a visiting researcher. César’s research focuses on urban mobility, and the environmental impacts of everyday travel.
The number of luxury, detached homes in England and Wales owned through offshore companies has fallen dramatically in the last decade, likely as a result of a Government transparency drive, finds Dr Jonathan Bourne @casaucl.bsky.social @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
Overseas-owned properties shift from single homes to larger developments
The number of luxury, detached homes in England and Wales owned through offshore companies has fallen dramatically in the last decade, likely as a result of a Government transparency drive, UCL resear...
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We're happy to announce our final Complexity Economics seminars for this academic year (all online as well as in person). We start on 29 April with Neave O'Clery @casaucl.bsky.social on Deciphering the global production network from cross-border firm transactions. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/decip...
Deciphering the global production network from cross-border firm…
European industrial nations and China dominate critical intermediate products such as metals, common components and tools, while industrial complexity is…
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In an article published in Science Direct, CASA's Claude Lynch, Gerard Casey, Esra Suel and Adam Dennett ask: Is transport modelling ‘a bit of a racket’? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198226000412
Congratulations to CASA Professor Neave O'Clery for her appointment to the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna as external faculty! Home to many CASA alumni, the independent non-profit research institute researches global systems by analysing large-scale data & complex networks. https://csh.ac.at/
@casaucl.bsky.social’s Thomas Murat kicking things off in his #AAG26 session about simulating bus-mobility.
Wed 18 March: The CASA Seminar Series Inter-city Migration and its Differential Impacts on Urban Population Age Structure Evolution: A Big Data Empirical Study of Wuhan, China with Xiu Yang, CASA Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/mar/casa-seminar-series-2025-26
Full house for today’s UCL Economic Geography Network seminar with Zara Shabrina - a superb talk on modelling Jakarta as a sinking city
Join us today for March's Economic Geography Network Seminar. Multimodal Geo-AI for modelling Jakarta as a sinking city with Dr Zahratu Shabrina 🗓️ 13:00, Thu 12 March 📍 CASA Seminar Room 106/107 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/mar/economic-geography-network-seminar-series
