My current research in the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality programme investigates how pedagogies of practitioners, institutions and networks become generative to urban equality. With a team at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), Indian Institute for Human Settlements and City Partners from across Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, we analyse and challenge how the education of urban practitioners – including professional planners, grassroots groups, academics and everyday city-makers – is currently driving the production and reproduction of urban inequality and epistemic injustice. Moreover, we are supporting processes to make visible, consolidate and expand existing emancipatory pedagogies that contribute to pathways to urban equality.

Before joining the DPU, I worked at Austrian and Swiss research institutes with a focus on local governance, disaster risk management and the role of collaborations and participatory processes in achieving sustainable and just development. My PhD studies at the DPU explored these issues in the Colombian city of Manizales, where the integrated disaster risk management has become a strategic element for urban development.