Aside from this website, here is a list of the easier-to-measure, discrete outcomes from the project.
1: Poster on therapeutic place design at Vivensa Foundation research event at the Building Centre, London, 19 November 2025.
2: Application for Leverhulme Trust early career fellowship. Completed internal application which received positive feedback but was not selected to be put forward by the university. Title: People-place interactions in housing: designing for relational life in cities
3: Application for UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. Outcome pending. Title: Homes that move us: Using shared living spaces to improve health through movement and community formation
Training undertaken, seminars attended:
(upcoming) 16 April: Place-based systems change: re-situating participatory practice through power, people, and place. Royal Geographic Society, London. Contributions from Indy Johar, Camilla Buchanan, Charlotte Boddy, Lisa Clarke.
(upcoming) 10 March: Community cohesion and impact workshop. College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham. Contributions from Professor Jagbir Jhutti-Johal, Kerry Rickerby, Professor Ruth Gilligan.
(upcoming) 24 February: Liberated Land Trusts: How Black-Led CLTs Are Reimagining Development in Canada. Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts.
(upcoming) 23 February: Ecological Citizens in the Business School: Working With Nature in Developing Entrepreneurship Practices. Birmingham Business School. Organised by Dr Caroline Chaplain and Dr Emma Surman. Contributions from Jessica Adams, Eleanor Hill, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship MSc students.
11 February: Modern colonialism threat to urban identity and citizenship in Lagos. Professor Taibat Lawanson, Architecture Heritage and Urbanism of West Africa Research Centre (University of Liverpool). Hosted by Birmingham Business School.
5 February: Governance and Ethics Training. Centre-UB and Research Strategy and Services Division. Contributors: Susan Cottom and Shahnaz Gill-Stokes.
11 December: UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship information session. University of Birmingham. Organiser/contributor: Dr Ipshita Ghose, head of Research Strategy and Services Division (Social Sciences).
3 December: Fire safety!
2 December: Budget training by Tamara Johnson of the Research Delivery Team. Organised by Centre-UB.
2 December: Centre-UB Network session – Distressing Material. Contributor: Professor Jess Woodhams.
28 November: Data management training. Organised by Centre-UB, delivered by Wayne Gorman, head of information compliance and data management.
26 November: Public speaking training by James Piercy. University of Birmingham, organised by the Public Engagement team and part of the Centre-UB training offering.
26 November: Does Striking More Mean Striking Better? Examining the Effectiveness of Union Conflict Strategies. Seminar by Jon Las Heras at Birmingham Business School.
20 November: Early Career Research Forum (Birmingham Business School) on Impact, by Dr Sami Benassi.
19 November: Vivensa Foundation Early Career Researcher Event at The Building Centre, London.
17 November: Net Zero and Complexity. Britain’s Window in a Wild World. Presentation by Dr Fred Amonya. Organised by Centre for Postdoctoral Development in Infrastructure, Cities and Energy.
13 November: Civic Square Retrofit Reimagined Open House on Link Road, Birmingham.
13 November: West Midlands Planning Symposium. Bescot Stadium Walsall. Presentations from a variety of researchers and practitioners (including Amahra Spence and Sophie Hadfield-Hill), hosted by the West Midlands Combined Authority.
12 November: Early Career Research Forum (Birmingham Business School) – How to write a good title and abstract, by Professor Donald Houston.
6 November: Comms and Media Training. Part of the Centre-UB offering, delivered by the public affairs team. University of Birmingham.
30 October: Writing policy briefs as tools for knowledge mobilisation. Part 2. Delivered as collaboration between Centre-UB and BRUK (Edinburgh).
23 October: Centre-UB impact training.
15 October: Writing policy briefs as tools for knowledge mobilisation. Part 1. Delivered as collaboration between Centre-UB and BRUK (Edinburgh).
13 October: Centre-UB induction.
Other experience
(upcoming) Reviewed abstracts for Building Capability in Behavioural Research conference 2026.
Birmingham Business School online writing sessions organised by the early career researcher forum (Salma Ashour).
