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📢 A DPU DIALOGUES IN DEVELOPMENT EVENT
🗓️ 8 OCTOBER 2025
⏰ 17:30 – 19:00
Join us for - Educating Urban Practitioners in a time of Climate Crisis: An Innovative Vision for Higher Education in India
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Educating Urban Practitioners in a time of Climate Crisis A DPU Dialogues in development event

📢 A DPU DIALOGUES IN DEVELOPMENT EVENT
🗓️ 8 OCTOBER 2025
⏰ 17:30 – 19:00
Join us for - Educating Urban Practitioners in a time of Climate Crisis: An Innovative Vision for Higher Education in India

Educating Urban Practitioners in a time of Climate Crisis A DPU Dialogues in development event

The landscape of international development is changing 🌍

Earlier this summer, DPU hosted a hybrid alumni roundtable with alumni from DPU and UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, exploring the dramatic changes in global aid, including the closure of USAID and major cuts to overseas development assistance by key donors.

🎓 Alumni from across the sector, including UN agencies, NGOs and local governments, shared insights on how they’re adapting to rising global needs and shrinking resources.

📘 Read the full story and download the report: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/node/16269

Student scholarship spotlight 🌍

Sunny Kumar Gupta, an incoming Urban Development Planning MSc student, has been awarded the prestigious Inlaks Scholarship. 🏅

Each year, The Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation support outstanding young Indian graduates to pursue postgraduate study overseas at world class institutions across a range of disciplines.

Sunny’s work will focus on integrating grounded urban theory with institutional planning frameworks that not only serve communities, but work with them.

🔗 Meet the 2025 scholars: https://inlaksfoundation.org/community/updates/scholars-2025-sunny-kumar-gupta-tansi-fotedar-archis-mukhopadhyay-and-jasmeen-kaur-brar/

We look forward to welcoming Sunny to the school! 👏🎓

Scholars 2025: Sunny Kumar Gupta, Tansi Fotedar, Archis Mukhopadhyay and Jasmeen Kaur Brar In part one of our two-part series introducing the seven Inlaks Scholars for 2025, meet Sunny Kumar Gupta, Tansi Fotedar, Archis Mukhopadhyay and Jasmeen Kaur Brar.

Congratulations to Dr Paroj Banerjee on receiving the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) Seminar Series Award 🏆

Her project, 'Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decentre urban knowledge' spotlights underrepresented voices.

💬 "Absolutely honoured to have received this award. Looking forward to working with Ish*ta Chatterjee and Raffael Beier on the politics of knowledge production and urban inhabitation."
– Dr Banerjee

🔍 Learn more about the project: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/2025/jul/dpu-awarded-usf-seminar-series-award-ground-breaking-project-urban-knowledge

O.P. Jindal Global University Technical University of Dortmund, Germany

💬 “Becoming the first in my family to earn a master’s means becoming a role model for girls like me.”

Effie Atieno’s journey from Kenya to UCL was made possible through The Bartlett Promise Sub-Saharan Africa Scholarship and she’s used that opportunity to not only complete her degree, but to lead with purpose.

Supported by her lecturers at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, Effie is now focused on empowering girls in her community and championing access to education.

A powerful story of perseverance, progress and possibility.

🔗 Read more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/development/study/development-planning-scholarships-and-funding/breaking-barriers-effies-scholarship-journey

📸 Did you miss our DPU Photography Competition winning entries?

Recently, we shared the winning entries from our student photography competition. These three images capture the complexity and creativity of urban life during our overseas practice engagements in São Paulo, Marrakech and Cebu.

🥇 Serra Utkum Ikiz (BUDD MSc) – "Layered realities of contemporary urban life"
🥈 Jingzhi Fen (HUD MSc) – "Informality in the City"
🥉 Bennedictus Bagustantyo (UDP MSc) – "Bridging Futures, Rooted in Reality"

Each photo tells a unique story of place, people and planning in action. Scroll through to see them all, and thank you again to all our students who submitted.

🎬 DPU Short Film Competition 2025

We're rounding up our showcase from this year's competition with our winning short film.

Titled after the Cebuano version of the Lord's Prayer, Dinhi sa Yuta is an advocacy video that rethinks development and presents the grounded realities in Sitio Lower Mahiga and Upper Kalubihan as voiced by the community.

📍 Dinhi sa Yuta (Here on Earth) – Cebu, Philippines
▶️ Watch now: https://youtu.be/aHisgSx6hL4

Congratulations to our winners and thank you to all our students for their submissions! 👏