Centre for Urban Wellbeing
Description
The Centre for Urban Wellbeing was established in 2020 to support interdisciplinary and community-engaged research informed by the best global evidence to address urban wellbeing inequalities.
With rising levels of regional and spatial inequalities and an increase in interest in urban-rural differences in wellbeing and the future of cities, urban wellbeing is an important research agenda. Understanding and tackling urban wellbeing inequalities is key to this. Urban wellbeing inequalities can take many forms – from basic income inequalities, to health and housing inequalities, to differences in experiences of and access to green spaces and quality urban environments.
The Centre's main research areas are:
- community health
- wellbeing economies
- recovery and renewal
- imagining wellbeing
- sustainable, liveable and resilient cities
The Centre for Urban Wellbeing draws together research across many areas, including physical, social and mental wellbeing, ageing, behaviour change, political and cultural economic theory, environmental and health sciences, digital technologies, historical and literary investigations on embodiment, compassion and care, and urban planning and infrastructures. This multi-disciplinary research provides new insight into the ways in which humanity lives in and interacts with their urban environment, and will help ensure that local solutions can be shaped by the best-informed global research and evidence.
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Founding year
2020
Contact details
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
United Kingdom
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University affiliation(s)
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
Last modified:
2023-09-20 15:00:06