Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cites and Neighbourhoods

The GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) is an international collaborative research centre funded by the UK government’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), which addresses urban challenges in Africa and Asia.

Urbanisation and migration have brought significant economic growth in many developing countries. At the same time we have seen aggravated inequalities between residents and communities within cities. Poverty, crime, environmental risks, poor health and lack of proper access to education remain major challenges for urban residents and for policy makers. SHLC will help us to understand these urban challenges and
generate research-based policy solutions.

OUR WORK

Responding to urbanisation requires an understanding of the complex relations between sustainable livelihoods, education and health, at the neighbourhood level. Sustainable cities depend to a considerable extent on a population with the resilience and resources that health and learning brings. Equally, access to healthcare and quality education depend on the sustainable development of cities and the neighbourhoods within them.

SHLC aims to grow research capacity in African and Asian cities, as well as to increase our
understanding of urbanisation, and of health and education challenges. We will achieve these aims by:

• Developing a series of training workshops, knowledge exchange events, a visiting research fellow programme and a mentoring scheme to create a strong and durable network of urban researchers in the partner institutions’ countries and beyond.

• Conducting a comparative study of urbanisation and the formation and differentiation of neighbourhoods in 14 different cities in both emerging economies and in relatively poor countries in Africa and Asia, including: Bangladesh, China, India, the Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania.

OUR PARTNERS

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Khulna University, Bangladesh

Nankai University, China

National Institute of Urban Affairs, India

Human Sciences Research Council and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

University of Rwanda, Rwanda

University of the Philippines, Philippines

GRANT VALUE: GBP 7105262 

GET IN TOUCH
Email us at: shlc-info@glasgow.ac.uk
Follow us at: @SHLC_Cities
Visit us at: http://www.centreforsustainablecities.ac.uk/

• Research Project