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Prof. Stefan White

Co-Director, ARO. Director, CPU. Manchester School of Architecture

Stephen McCusker

Senior Lecturer in Professional Studies and Professional Skills Lead Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Kasia Nawratek

Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Manchester School of Architecture​

Mark Hammond

Senior Lecturer and Deputy Research Lead​, Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Emily Crompton

Architect/ Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ​

Samuel Holden

Lecturer in Architecture at the Department of Arts and Humanities, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 

Richard Morton

Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Manchester School of Architecture, leading the Infrastructure Space Atelier​

Demetra Kourri

Lecturer in Architectural Humanities, Manchester School of Architecture​

Reiji Nagaoka

Doctoral Researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University

Rob Hyde

Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture

Mahmud Tantoush

Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture

Solon Solomou

Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture

Deljana Iossifova

Professor of Architecture and Urban studies at University of Manchester. Leads the Urban Studies Lab.

Kristina Niedderer

Professor of Design at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Hans Degens

Professor of Muscle Physiology at the Department of Life Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ​

Gladys Pearson

Professor of Musculoskeletal Frailty and Rehabilitation at the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Carol Atkinson

Professor of Human Resource Management, Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ​

Sarah Campbell

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Care and Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Robert Hagan

Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the Department of Social Care and Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ​

Neil Dagnall

Professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ​

Liam Harper

Senior Lecturer in Physiology at the Department of Life Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ​

Kelly Bowden Davies

Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology at the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ​

Jo-Pei Tan

Senior Lecturer in Integrated Health and Social Care at the Department of Social Care and Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ​

Carol Opdebeeck

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 

Alex Ireland

Reader in Musculoskeletal Physiology at the Department of Life Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

SusInfra

SusInfra is a research programme comprising a portfolio of interrelated…

CoFUTURES

CoFUTURES is an international group working on Global Futures with its sphere of activities scattered across various communities, research groups and networks around the world. CoFUTURES is active in different sectors including academic research, technology research, policy, and the arts. It also provides support for transmedial artistic work including fiction, films, and games.

ComplexSouth

ComplexSouth critically engages with North-South research and researcher dynamics in the context of decolonial scholarship in urban transformations across the Global South.

SASSI: A Systems Approach to Sustainable Sanitation Challenges in China

The overall aim of this interdisciplinary project is to enhance our understanding of the complex human-environment interactions in sanitation systems and their sustainability outcomes in rapidly developing countries. This can contribute knowledge and best practices to improve human well-being, which is the overall focus of the Sustainable Development agenda.

Project Synergy

The aim of this project is to further develop innovative technologies for connected autonomous vehicles to accelerate adoption of driverless vehicles and allied technologies in the UK. This project will introduce innovative technologies to operate connected autonomous cars in a platoon formation from Stockport directly to the arrivals terminal at Manchester Airport.

Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems

DACAS is an ESRC funded Strategic Network.

It was part of the Urban Transformations (UT) program coordinated between 2015 and 2020 by Professor Michael Keith from the University of Oxford, showcasing research on cities. The UT portfolio included over 120 research projects that engaged with the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly urban world.

Healthy Life Expectancy diagram showing the relationship between Housing, Services, Economy, Environment and Transport

Story of Stockport

This project explored the use of data analysis and representation to understand the spatial implications of structural discrimination across Stockport Borough.

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Common Projects and Privatised Potential

This chapter explores how contemporary process philosophy enables construction of design epistemologies and practices better able produce, ‘a plausible connection between architecture and the social’ (Rem Koolhas).

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The Greater Part

This chapter sets out key theoretical findings of research into spatial inclusion, articulating philosophical aspects of a Spinoza inspired – ‘expressionist’ - design and research methodology.

Old Moat: Creating an Age-Friendly Neighbourhood

This chapter brings to an international audience the underpinning theoretical and methodological approaches to the design and implementation of whole system place-based public health interventions across the life course. 

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Including Architecture

Collected alongside world-leading disability scholars Rob Imrie and Jos Boys, this chapter sets out the key theoretical basis of research into a ‘capability’ model of spatial inclusion that underpins cutting-edge Age Friendly Neighbourhood community-engaged design-research, which in turn contributed to Greater Manchester becoming Europe’s first Age Friendly City Region.

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Greater Manchester Ageing in Place Pathfinder

The Ageing in Place Pathfinder is a complex whole system public health intervention focussed on the role of place across the life course with an emphasis on later life. 

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Creating Age-Friendly Developments

Creating Age-Friendly Developments is a guide for developers, designers and policymakers setting out 62 considerations for ensuring new residential developments and urban regeneration initiatives can better serve the needs and aspirations of older people.

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Design for Life Age Friendly Urban Design guidance

This public facing report curated by Dr Hammond sets out co-produced guidance informed by the DfL Ageing in place Research programme. It extends the Design for Life Manifesto for urban ageing into specific supplementary planning guidance for new developments in Greater Manchester.

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Rightsizing: Reframing older people’s housing choices

The rightsizing project responded to the observation that a potentially very large number of older people were living in unsuitable accommodation for later life or had an expressed preference to move home but very few (<4%) every year did actually move house and of those less than half moved into smaller properties i.e it is incorrect to assume that older people seek to ‘downsize’.

Manchester Age Friendly Neighbourhoods

The Manchester Age Friendly Neighbourhoods project explored the systematic implementation of the Old Moat Age Friendly Neighbourhood prototype for co-produced place-based urban planning for health across the life course through creating 5 resident led multi-stakeholder age friendly partnerships in deprived wards across Manchester City.

Cheetham Hill Urban Living Lab

The Cheetham Hill Urban Living Lab built on the Old Moat project by exploring the application of the WHO AFCC guidance to a district centre situation with a focus round community cohesion and healthy living.

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Old Moat

The Old Moat project created a unique implementation of the World Health Organisation Age Friendly Cities and Communities guidance in a specific neighbourhood, employing an advanced co-production methodology addressing the WHO principle of ‘Active Ageing’.

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Future Mobility Symposium 2020

Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), to explore their potentials, pitfalls, government policies, current projects and research

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SynchroniCity: H2020

SynchroniCity will create a harmonised market place for IoT enabled and urban data services.

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Future City Systems

Urgent and complex challenges are frequently addressed as if they were merely visual design issues.

Project Synergy

Development of a CAV digital simulation model for Manchester Airport