Projects
We are a centre for research in the areas of human geography, planning, urban design and spatial analysis.
We have a diverse portfolio of research projects covering economic, social, political and cultural change and the built and natural environments.
| Investigator(s) | Funded | Title | Dates | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor R Sonnino, Professor P Milbourne | Commission of the European Communities | Integrated urban FOOD policies – developing sustainability Co-benefits, spatial Linkages, social Inclusion and sectoral Connections to transform food systems in city-regions - FOODCLIC | 01/06/2022 to 30/11/2026 | £695,976 |
| Dr E Shepherd | Economic and Social Research Council | Ideology, housing and land value capture: Uncovering the politics of development land value | 11/04/2022 to 10/04/2025 | £244,089 |
| Dr C Bear, Professor R Sonnino | Commission of the European Communities | Transparency solutions for transforming the food system | 01/02/2022 to 31/01/2026 | £430,181 |
| Dr I Sebastian, Dr A Flynn | Commission of the European Communities | Pathways towards a 'restorative' Anthropocene: a comparative study of three marginalised land practices, their narratives and regenerative potential across local-global dimensions | 15/09/2021 to 01/02/2025 | £197,921 |
| Dr Isabel Sebastian | EU Horizon 2020 | Marginalised and contested regenerative land practices in Wales, Australia and Bhutan | 04/10/2021 to 31/01/2025 | £188,205 |
| Professor S Orford | NERC | Digital Solutions programme via Manchester | 01/02/2021 to 31/01/2025 | £100,000 |
| Professor P Milbourne | Commission of the European Communities | Building pathways towards FOOD 2030-led urban food policies | 16/10/2020 to 15/10/2024 | £582,500 |
| Dr F Sartorio | Arts and Humanities Research Council | Spaces of HOPE. The hidden history of community Led planning in the UK | 16/10/2020 to 15/10/2024 | £23,727 |
| Professor Roberta Sonnino, Professor Paul Milbourne and Dr Dalia Mattioni | EU Commission | FOODTRAILS | 16/10/2020 to 15/10/2024 | £582,500 |
| Dr P Mackie, Miss R Cannings-John, Miss Y Moriarty, Mr I Thomas, Dr J White | National Institute for Health Research | PHaCT - Preventing Homelessness, improving health for prison leavers: a pilot randomised controlled trial of a Critical Time intervention | 01/03/2022 to 29/02/2024 | £516,793 |
| Dr Christopher Bear | British Academy and Leverhulme Trust | Young people, alternative proteins and pedagogies for sustainable futures | 18/10/2021 to 18/10/2023 | £8,494 |
| Dr K O'Neill | British Academy | Veganpreneurship: food system transformation or new economic opportunity? Motivations and drivers for vegan entrepreneurship | 01/10/2021 to 30/09/2023 | £7,906 |
| Dr S Shahab, Dr B Webb | Economic and Social Research Council | Creating prosperous city centres post pandemic through repurposing retail space | 01/02/2022 to 31/07/2023 | £50,229 |
| Dr E Pitt | Welsh Government | Resilient green spaces | 01/10/2021 to 30/06/2023 | £28,395 |
| Dr G Enticott | Commission of the European Communities | Rethinking of antimicrobial decision-systems in the management of animal production | 01/06/2019 to 31/05/2023 | £180,818 |
| Dr A Healy, Professor G Bristow | Commission of the European Communities | ENergy TRANsitions from Coal and carbon: Effects on Societies | 01/05/2020 to 30/04/2023 | £147,046 |
| Dr A Collins, Professor M Munday | Economic and Social Research Council | Transforming event impact evaluations and staging more sustainable events: a focus on plastic consumption | 01/01/2022 to 31/03/2023 | £14,776 |
| Dr M Wargent | The British Academy | Network on devolution, local autonomy, and the multi-level governance of place in Britain and Canada | 01/04/2022 to 31/03/2023 | £5,000 |
| Dr Richard Gale | The British Academy | 'Every living thing': The nexus of cultural and economic values within resilient urban water systems (A case study of Hargeisa, Somaliland) | 01/03/2021 to 28/02/2023 | £48,869 |
| Dr M Khan, Dr T Smith | Economic and Social Research Council | A Blended Learning Framework for Bangladesh: Policy and practice placement on spatialities of the future of education | 01/01/2022 to 28/02/2023 | £14,966 |
| Professor P Mackie | Centre for Homelessness Impact | Additional financial assistance for people with experience of homelessness trial | 01/09/2021 to 31/12/2022 | £9,975 |
| Dr A Collins, Dr N Koenig-Lewis, Dr D Dineva | HEFCW | The impact of sport events as agents for sustainable behaviour change – a focus on The Open Championship | 01/01/2022 to 31/12/2022 | £28,925 |
| Dr A Collins, Professor M Munday, Mr N Roche | Royal Welsh Agricultural Society Ltd (RWAS Ltd) | Environmental sustainability of the royal Welsh agricultural society | 01/04/2022 to 30/09/2022 | £11,957 |
| Dr Peter Mackie | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account and Oak Foundation | Upstream Cymru | 01/02/2021 to 30/04/2022 | N/A |
| Dr Matluba Khan | HEFCW-GCRF | Crisis-led approaches to teaching and learning in Bangladesh: New frameworks for outdoor, blended learning in low-income country contexts | 01/02/2021 to 31/01/2022 | £43,725 |
| Dr Matluba Khan | Cardiff University and Cardiff Council | Co-creating a child and youth-friendly covid recovery plan for marginalised communities in Cardiff | 01/11/2021 to 30/09/2022 | £14,500 |
| Rebecca Windemer | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | End-of-life challenges for the wind and solar energy sectors | 01/10/2020 to 30/09/2021 | £97,579 |
| Torik Holmes | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | The constitution of 'urban' electricity demand | 01/10/2020 to 30/09/2021 | £120,584 |
| Sina Shahab | The Royal Irish Academy, The British Academy | Planning and Design Interventions for Improving the Well-Being of Vulnerable Groups | 31/01/2020 to 31/01/2021 | N/A |
| Adrian Healy | UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship | Water stressed cities: Individual choice, access to water and pathways to resilience in sub-Saharan Africa | 01/01/2020 to 31/12/2023 | £1,085,387 |
| Dr Patricia Lopes Simoes Aelbrecht, Dr Hesam Kamalipour, Dr Nastaran Peimani, Dr Wesley Aelbrecht | ESRC Impact Acceleration Account 2021 | My/Your Cardiff Public Space Campaign | 2020 to 2021 | N/A |
| Dr Hesam Kamalipour, Dr Nastaran Peimani, Dr Debdulal Saha | HEFCW GCRF 2020 | Negotiating Livelihoods and Rights in Contested Urban Space | 2020 to 2022 | N/A |
| Dr Dimitris Potoglou and Dr Georgina Santos | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | Decarbonising transport through electrification, a whole system approach (DTE) | 01/09/2019 to 31/08/2022 | £50,777 |
| Dr P Mackie, Dr S Orford | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | UK collaborative centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) | 01/08/2017 to 30/05/2022 | £401,137 |
| Professor K Morgan | Volkswagen Stifung | Agents of change and path creation in old-industrial regions | 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2021 | £183,343 |
| Dr Julian Brigstocke | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | Transforming atmospheric authority: Experimental embodiments in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro | 01/11/2019 to 31/10/2021 | £167,729 |
| Dr Angelina Sanderson-Bellamy | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) | Transforming food system relationships | 01/01/2019 to 31/01/2021 | £531,744 |
| Dr Carla de Laurentis | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | Supporting renewable energy deployment: Exploring routes from research into practice | 01/10/2019 to 31/12/2020 | £105,565 |
| Professor M Miele | Leverhulme Trust | Shaping Inter-Species Connectedness | 01/01/2018 to 31/12/2020 | £216,000 |
| Professor R Huggins | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | Productivity Insights Network | 01/01/2018 to 01/12/2020 | £1,479,790 |
| Dr Jennifer Owen | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | Getting your stuff together: The role of storage and decluttering services in the management of domestic materiality over the life course | 01/10/2019 to 30/09/2020 | £88,514 |
| Dr S Martinat, Professor R Cowell | Sêr Cymru II - COFUND | Anaerobic digestion plants in rural Wales: social-spatial diffusion of technology, social acceptance and energy transition | 01/02/2018 to 31/08/2020 | £161,821.30 |
| Dr Agatha Herman, Dr Tom Smith | RSG-IBG Environment and Sustainability Grant | Pathways to just and sustainable development practices through Tanzanite mining and production | 01/09/2019 to 31/08/2020 | £15,000 |
| Crispin Cooper | Alain Chiaradia | 3d urban network analysis | 01/07/2020 to 31/07/2020 | £6,204 |
| Dr G Enticott | Westpoint Group Trading Ltd | Bovine Tuberculosis Advisory Service | 01/08/2017 to 31/07/2020 | £11,000 |
| Dr Oleg Golebchikov | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | Strengthening policy capacities for sustainable housing and urban development in countries with economies in transition | 01/04/2020 to 30/06/2020 | £13,185 |
| Dr A Ince | Stockholm University | Urban Riots: A comparative study of Stockholm and London | 23/02/2016 to 31/03/2020 | £82,391 |
| Dr A Ioris | British Academy Newton Fund | A long-pending Indian question: Consequences of agribusiness expansion and ambiguous national borders for the Guarani- Kaiowás in Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil) | 20/03/2018 to 28/02/2020 | £72,975 |
| Dr Gareth Enticott | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) | Decision-making research into farmers’ cattle purchasing behaviour, investigating the current role of TB risk assessment in purchase decisions and appraising future ways to increase the importance of such risk assessments | 22/10/2019 to 27/02/2020 | £66,000 |
| Dr Patricia Lopes Simoes Aelbrecht, Dr Richard Gale, Professor Gary Bridge, Dr Quentin Stevens, Dr Tuna Tasan-Kok, Professor Tom Nielsen | Cities Research Centre 2017, 2018. CUROP 2017, 2018, 2019. RMIT Exchange Grant 2018. | European Public Space Design Programs with Social Cohesion and Intercultural Dialogue in Mind | 2018 to 2020 | £15,000 |
| Dr Pete Mackie | Welsh Government | Review of priority need in Wales | 01/03/2019 to 30/11/2019 | £45,337 |
| Professor T Marsden, Dr H Pitt | Canal and River Trust | Development of research framework programme | 01/05/2014 to 31/10/2019 | £120,000 |
| Dr A Ioris | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | Agro-cultural frontiers and the Amazon: contested histories, new alterities and emerging cultures | 01/11/2017 to 31/10/2019 | £48,576 |
| Professor T Marsden | EU-Commission | SUSPLACE | 01/10/2015 to 30/09/2019 | £449,165 |
| Dr C Fuller | The Leverhulme Trust | Brexit, foreign corporate subsidiaries and regional development | 01/09/2018 to 01/09/2019 | £54,908 |
| Dr G Enticott | Department for Environmental Food and Rural Affairs | An analysis of bTB data and information requirements | 01/07/2018 to 31/03/2019 | £15,552 |
| Professor P Milbourne, Dr J Anderson and Dr S Orford | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | WISERD/Civil Society: Devolution, social and economic change and the local and regional landscapes of civil society | 01/04/2014 to 31/03/2019 | £350,517 |
| Dr G Enticott | EU-Commission | Strengthening animal production and health through the immune response | 01/03/2015 to 28/02/2019 | £265,435 |
| Professor K Morgan, Professor I Jones, Dr E Elliott, Professor C Jones, Dr R Ashelford | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | Social innovation in the foundational economy: promoting inclusive growth in the Cardiff capital region | 20/11/2018 to 30/11/2018 | £23,250 |
| Professor J Anderson, Dr S Orford | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Literature Wales | A new literary geography: Establishing a digital atlas of Wales and its borderlands | 03/05/2016 to 02/08/2018 | £477,232 |
| Professor S Baker, Dr A Sanderson Bellamy and Dr L Cullen-Unsworth | British Academy | The role and interplay between private and public governance within the land-coastal zone-sea interface and the impact on food security | 01/12/2016 to 31/03/2018 | £311.37 |
| Dr L Yu, Dr A Flynn | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | Smart eco-cities for a green economy: a comparative study of Europe and China | 01/04/2015 to 31/03/2018 | £48,333 |
| Dr A Sanderson Bellamy, Professor S Baker, Dr A Herman | British Academy | CERTAIN: Certification evaluation toolkit and methods for inspiring consumer trust in food producers | 01/04/2017 to 31/03/2018 | £9,540 |
| Dr A Flynn, Dr A Frank, Professor C Tweed, Dr W Jabi | Institute of International Education | Novel approaches of employing green infrastructure (GI) to enhance urban sustainability | 07/04/2015 to 15/02/2018 | £18,303 |
| Professor R Sonnino, Professor T Marsden and Dr A Moragues Faus | European Union | Transmango: Assessment of the impact of drivers of change on Europe's food and nutrition security | 01/02/2014 to 31/01/2018 | N/A |
| Dr G DeVerteuil | Cardiff University | Prosperous cities at the top of the urban hierarchy | 13/01/2018 to 21/01/2018 | £2,000 |
| Dr L Yu, Dr A Flynn | NA | The research for Liveable Quality and its Promotion Path for Xiamen | 28/04/2017 to 20/01/2018 | N/A |
| Professor R Huggins, Professor K Morgan | The Hodge Foundation | Economic renewal for Wales | 01/01/2016 to 31/12/2017 | £9,950 |
| Professor R Sonnino | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, | Framework of Action for the Urban Food Agenda | 27/06/2017 to 30/11/2017 | £21,727 |
| Dr A Flynn | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Panalpina | Standards and the circular economy | 01/06/2017 to 31/10/2017 | £3,000 |
| Professor R Sonnino | Scottish Government | Implementing healthy and sustainable catering in Scotland's public sector | 12/09/2016 to 30/09/2017 | £22,510 |
| Dr A Herman | The Leverhulme Trust | The power of Fairtrade: Resilience, ethical development and wine networks | 01/11/2016 to 31/08/2017 | N/A |
| Professor R Sonnino | Commission of the European Communities | Study on food in cities – innovation for a sustainable and healthy production, delivery and consumption of food in cities | 01/01/2017 to 31/08/2017 | £7,804 |
| Professor G Bristow | Natural Environment Research Council | Resilience in groundwater supply systems: Integrating resource-based approaches with agency, behaviour and choice in West Africa (RIGSS) | 01/11/2016 to 31/07/2017 | £88,011 |
| Dr O Golubchikov | School of Geography and Planning | The Nexus of Smart Cities and Energy: A Scoping Survey of Urban Strategies | 01/06/2017 to 01/07/2017 | £2,000 |
| Dr P Aelbrecht, Dr R Gale, Professor G Bridge | Cardiff University | Comparative Study on European Public Space Design Programs with Social Cohesion in mind | 01/06/2017 to 01/07/2017 | £2,500 |
| Professor K Morgan | EU Commission | Smart Specialisation for regional development | 01/07/2013 to 30/06/2016 | £557,387 |
| Dr L Yu | British Council | The research for symbiosis between traditional buildings and environment in rural township in the process of urbanisation | 01/04/2016 to 31/03/2017 | £1,500 |
| Professor G Bristow, Dr A Healy | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | Community resilience and Brexit | 25/02/2017 to 31/03/2017 | £3,683 |
| Professor G Bristow, Dr A Healy | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | Guiding local and regional economic resilience | 01/03/2016 to 28/02/2017 | £20,526 |
