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Eva Lamorgese
Feb 283 min read
Start investigating community cohesion from the perspectives of local communities in order to tackle inequalities
Eva Lamorgese In January we submitted evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee new inquiry on community cohesion. When looking at...
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Lei Zhou
Feb 214 min read
Inclusive Growth Summit: Is “Builderism” the right cure for London?
Lei Zhou In early February 2025, I had an interesting experience at the Inclusive Growth Summit , which took place in a cinema and was...
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Grace Regan
Jan 298 min read
Sustainable Food: How to Fix the Animal Problem
Grace Regan As an ex-vegan, confused vegetarian and very occasional meat eater (I guess that officially makes me a flexitarian?), I spend...
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Gulnar Hasnain
Jan 244 min read
Lessons from Colombia: A Journey Through Resilient Cities
by Gulnar Hasnain In December 2024, I had the privilege of visiting Colombia —a country where urban resilience is continuously tested and...
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Samar Maqusi
Jan 143 min read
Camp-space: The exceptional duality of the Palestine refugee camp (animated film)
By Dr Samar Maqusi Palestine refugee camps and exceptionality have been cojoined in theoretical and scholarly analysis ad nauseam. This...
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Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton
Jan 84 min read
Why Art Matters for Human Rights: A Conversation in Book Form
by Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton At its heart, Creating Justice: Conversations on Art and Human Rights is more than a book – it’s...
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Professor Henrietta L. Moore
Dec 10, 20241 min read
Director's Winter Reading List 2024
by Professor Henrietta L. Moore Explore this thoughtfully compiled 'reading' list and expand the content you consume this Winter. Read:...
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Andrew Percy
Nov 29, 20242 min read
Food is a Human Right for All!
By Andrew Percy The IGP's Social Prosperity Network has always been strongly aligned with the Right to Food campaign, as food is one of...
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Nov 28, 20242 min read
Expanding Research Horizons: Learning from Beyond and Before the West
By Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu In a most exciting lecture series, "Methodologies Beyond the West: Post-Ethnographic Explorations in...
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Almeira Parruque
Nov 28, 20243 min read
Pots and Prosperity in Mozambique
By Almeira Parruque On November 15, 2024, Mozambique was rocked by widespread “ banging pot ” protests that reverberated across the...
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William Hynes
Oct 23, 20244 min read
Green Industrial Policies don’t offer second best – but first best solutions!
by William Hynes “You know economists; they’re the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in...
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IGP UCL
Sep 25, 20247 min read
‘Social values of public spaces across time and culture’ in Lebanon
by Samar Maqusi & Joana Dabaj The story began seven years ago when the RELIEF project was launched in Lebanon in pursuit of studying how...
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Hanna Baumann
Jul 18, 20243 min read
“Municipal Kitchens” exhibition reimagines communal eating in cities
By Hanna Baumann, with co-curators Cherry Truluck, Johann Arens, Miriam Lowack, Alicja Rogalska It is not every day that you enter a...
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Samuel Lun-Rockliffe
Jun 27, 20244 min read
Unintended consequences and failed development: Rethinking how we support agricultural prosperity in Elgyeo Marakwet County, Kenya
Dr Samuel Lunn-Rockliffe and Professor Henrietta Moore The dry plains of the semi-arid Kerio Valley, northwest Kenya, have long been a...
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Maha Shuayb and Mohammad Hammoud
Jun 27, 20245 min read
A Generation at Risk: Urgent Steps Needed to Address Learning Loss in Lebanon’s Public Schools
Dr Maha Shuayb and Mohammad Hammoud, Lebanese Studies Since 2019, Lebanon has faced severe financial, economic, and social crises that...
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Nouhad Awwad
Jun 20, 20246 min read
A Green New Deal for Lebanon: Highlights from the Institute for Global Prosperity’s Lebanon’s Week
By Nouhad Awwad, edited by Balsam Gharib On March 20, 2024, I had the privilege of taking part in the 10th anniversary of the Institute...
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Fatemeh Sadeghi
May 30, 20245 min read
Alternative Imaginaries: Feminist Transformative Politics in the Global South: A note on the conference* at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP)**
Feminists in the Global South have stepped out of the conventional territories of ‘women’s matters’ into more fundamental structural...
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Hannah Sender
May 28, 20244 min read
Reflections on Marjaa//Limbo urbanisms: Violence, urban change and multi-modal methodologies
The Marjaa//Limbo urbanisms: Violence, urban change and multi-modal methodologies workshop, held in UCL on 1st May 2024, was inspired by...
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Gillian Chan
Aug 17, 20232 min read
Prosperity in east London: a citizen’s view
Housing inequality, the changing face of racism, inadequate support for people with special educational needs and disabilities, safety,...
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Narjess Hachena
Jul 4, 20232 min read
Lessons from Hackney
It’s almost 9pm on a beautiful summer day and I have just returned home from a flagship event during London Climate Action Week 2023. At...
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