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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CASA's Ollie Ballinger features on the BBC World Service's Global News Podcast and on BBC Radio 5 Live's Drive, on new satellite imagery revealing the scale of destruction in Gaza: Global News Podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0pcysqf Drive: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m003259d
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Global News Podcast - Too much screen time 'can damage children as badly as poverty' - BBC Sounds
Canadian study links excessive time online to academic or mental health issues
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A new 5-day course for UCL academics and PhD students will help you improve your leadership abilities around data-driven decision-making. Find out more and book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/short-courses/search-…
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
CASA Honorary Professor Alan Wilson's new book, Leadership and Management: Learning from Experience (Routledge, 2026) tackles the challenges of leadership in complex, fast-changing environments. www.routledge.com/Leadership-and-Ma…
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨🎓 I wrote something about Number 10 North. Will it work? How could it change Manchester? And how will we know? maxnathan.medium.com/no-10-north-...
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No 10 North: will it work? And how will we know?
No. 10 North is the core of Andy Burnham’s devolution plans. Will it work, how, and can we track its effects?
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Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I was happy to provide a perspective on the prospects for place-based devolution and engagement for a ‘devolution panel’ for The Conversation this week, in the run up to Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister @casaucl.bsky.social @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
CASA's Dr Valerio Signorelli has been promoted to Associate Professor. Valerio joined us in 2016 as a Research Associate, then a Lecturer in Connected Environments, contributing to research, teaching and innovation at the intersection of urban environments, digital technologies and immersive media.
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Join us this evening for the launch of our master's show: Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show 2026 18:00–20:00, Thu 16 July Book your free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sense-deploy…
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Welcome to Fiona Pacolli as CASA’s new undergraduate intern! Fiona will work with Jon Reades and Ruth Neville on their 'No Space Like Home' project: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/research-pro…
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show 2026 From 17 July – 02 August, explore final projects by students graduating from the Connected Environments MSc at UCL East. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/…
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UCL Policy Lab @uclpolicylab.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
On Manchesterism, the real defence trade-off, and the Makerfield by-election. Read the latest in HopeWorks: A Progressive Reader. open.substack.com/pub/thisisho...
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What's at stake in Makerfield?
Makerfield, Manchesterism, and the fight over defence spending
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
CASA Professor Michael Batty was interviewed by Hala Lahlou and Sushmita Ravi from Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia on the evolving role of Building Information Modelling (BIM). ▶️ Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/embed/episode/65Xz…
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚨 👩‍🎓 👨‍🎓 📚 PHD OPPORTUNITY! Fully-funded 3 year UCL PhD at @casaucl.bsky.social. Start in October 2026 or February 2027. Deadline to apply is Weds 1 July 23:59 BST. Please share widely! www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/cas...
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The CASA Dearden PhD Scholarship
The Dearden Scholarship is open to UK/home students who wish to embark on PhD level study that links to the research interests of CASA academic staff and the research interests of Joel Dearden.
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show 2026 From 17 July – 02 August, explore the final projects of students graduating from the Connected Environments MSc at UCL East. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/…
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚨 👩‍🎓 👨‍🎓 📚 PHD OPPORTUNITY! Fully-funded 3 year UCL PhD at @casaucl.bsky.social. Start in October 2026 or February 2027. Deadline to apply is Weds 1 July 23:59 BST. Please share widely! www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/cas...
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The CASA Dearden PhD Scholarship
The Dearden Scholarship is open to UK/home students who wish to embark on PhD level study that links to the research interests of CASA academic staff and the research interests of Joel Dearden.
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚨 👩‍🎓 👨‍🎓 📚 PHD OPPORTUNITY! Fully-funded 3 year UCL PhD at @casaucl.bsky.social. Start in October 2026 or February 2027. Deadline to apply is Weds 1 July 23:59 BST. Please share widely! www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/cas...
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The CASA Dearden PhD Scholarship
The Dearden Scholarship is open to UK/home students who wish to embark on PhD level study that links to the research interests of CASA academic staff and the research interests of Joel Dearden.
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show 2026 From 17 July – 02 August, explore the final projects of students graduating from the Connected Environments MSc at UCL East. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/…
Poster with text:
Sense, Deploy, Communicate:
Connected Environments MSc Degree Show 2026

Opening event: 18:00–20:00, Thursday 16 July - open to all
Show opening times: 10:00–17:00, 17 July – 02 August
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚨 👩‍🎓 👨‍🎓 📚 Fully-funded 3 year UCL PhD coming up at @casaucl.bsky.social: the Joel Dearden Scholarship. Start in October 2026 or February 2027. Home students only. 👉 Please share widely! 👉 Deadline for pre-applications is 1 July. Please look out for the advert - we’ll post it shortly.
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
✍️ Now hiring! ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships at @casaucl.bsky.social as part of the UBEL DTP 2026 postdoc programme. 🗓️ Pre-registration deadline: Monday 18 May 2026 23:59 UK time. 🗓️ Full deadline: Monday 1 June 2026, 23:59 UK time. 👉 Apply here: ubel-dtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral...
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships - UBEL DTP
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 Entry The UCL, Bloomsbury and East London DTP invites applications for five postdoctoral fellowships (PDFs) to be based within departments at the six partner institu...
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Why do patients travel further for healthcare, even when a hospital is nearby? A new study from a team including CASA’s Michael Batty and Chen Zhong shows that over 80% of patients bypass their nearest hospital. Read the article: www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-…
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We're pleased to welcome César Marín-Flores, a PhD student at Aalto University working under the supervision of Dr Henrikki Tenkanen, who is currently joining us as a visiting researcher. César’s research focuses on urban mobility, and the environmental impacts of everyday travel.
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The number of luxury, detached homes in England and Wales owned through offshore companies has fallen dramatically in the last decade, likely as a result of a Government transparency drive, finds Dr Jonathan Bourne @casaucl.bsky.social @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
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Overseas-owned properties shift from single homes to larger developments
The number of luxury, detached homes in England and Wales owned through offshore companies has fallen dramatically in the last decade, likely as a result of a Government transparency drive, UCL resear...
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INET Complexity Economics @inet-complexity.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We're happy to announce our final Complexity Economics seminars for this academic year (all online as well as in person). We start on 29 April with Neave O'Clery @casaucl.bsky.social on Deciphering the global production network from cross-border firm transactions. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/decip...
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Deciphering the global production network from cross-border firm…
European industrial nations and China dominate critical intermediate products such as metals, common components and tools, while industrial complexity is…
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
And @casaucl.bsky.social has a new home! Goodbye 90TCR and hello Maple House
CASA’s new office space.
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
In an article published in Science Direct, CASA's Claude Lynch, Gerard Casey, Esra Suel and Adam Dennett ask: Is transport modelling ‘a bit of a racket’? www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Congratulations to CASA Professor Neave O'Clery for her appointment to the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna as external faculty! Home to many CASA alumni, the independent non-profit research institute researches global systems by analysing large-scale data & complex networks. csh.ac.at
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
@casaucl.bsky.social’s Thomas Murat kicking things off in his #AAG26 session about simulating bus-mobility.
A presentation at AAG 2026
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Wed 18 March: The CASA Seminar Series Inter-city Migration and its Differential Impacts on Urban Population Age Structure Evolution: A Big Data Empirical Study of Wuhan, China with Xiu Yang, CASA Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/…
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Prof Andrew Hudson-Smith @digitalurban.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Your fiddeling about with Boids for agent based modelling and it turns into an Aquarium where the fish tell the time.. 🐠🕐 Aqua Clock is now incoming to iOS and Android. #ios #android #time #clock #aquarium #fishtank #fish #app #indiedev #newapp via @casaucl.bsky.social
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Full house for today’s UCL Economic Geography Network seminar with Zara Shabrina - a superb talk on modelling Jakarta as a sinking city
Full house for today’s UCL Economic Geography Network seminar with Zara Shabrina - a superb talk on modelling Jakarta as a sinking city
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Join us today for March's Economic Geography Network Seminar. Multimodal Geo-AI for modelling Jakarta as a sinking city with Dr Zahratu Shabrina 🗓️ 13:00, Thu 12 March 📍 CASA Seminar Room 106/107 www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/…
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Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Energy neutral water pump - doing a bit of prototyping at @casaucl.bsky.social for a project with Mac at Nuna Studio - pump works great at a height of 7m. Good to see the spreadsheet theory working in practice. Next up, test rig to run it for a week.
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Dr Sarah Wise is leading a project funded by @nihr.bsky.social to model how heatwaves and flooding could disrupt the UK's blood supply. The team includes UCL Advanced Research Computing and the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction @thebartlettucl.bsky.social. 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...
Portrait photo of Dr Sarah Wise, Associate Professor at UCL Bartlett's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), alongside the text: "Dr Sarah Wise leads NIHR-funded project modelling climate risks to the UK's blood supply"Dark purple slide with white text reading: "The UK's blood supply relies on a coordinated network of donors, transport, processing and storage. Extreme weather puts all of it under pressure. This project will map where the network is most vulnerable to climate-related disruption, explore the impact across patient groups, and develop a digital planning tool for NHS Blood and Transplant."

UCL Bartlett CASA logo in the bottom right corner.
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Come and work with CASA: UCL and Alleyn’s School are coming together through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership. We're seeking a Digital Twin Integration Specialist (Research Fellow/Research Assistant), to be based at Alleyn's in Dulwich, south London. Learn more & apply: tinyurl.com/jkt6x7rs
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Congratulations to CASA Research Fellow, Clara Peiret-García, on receiving a @sdruk.bsky.social Fellowship! Her project will combine smart mobility data with surveys to understand diverse travel patterns, using HASP and GeoDS to support fair post‑pandemic transport planning. bit.ly/4co5e4m
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We are saddened to share the passing of Professor Michael Collins, a respected member of The Bartlett community. His contributions to planning research, education and practice leave a lasting legacy. Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/2026/fe…
Black and white portrait of Mike Collins against a leafy backdrop.
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
CASA PhD student Matthew Whearty and researchers Roberto Murcio and Joana Barros examine new passenger rail projects in Greater London, finding no significant social deprivation effects within a 15‑minute walk and raising wider questions about social outcomes. Read more: bit.ly/4qwIiDA
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UCL @ucl.ac.uk · 11/02/2026
Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨ #UCL200 #LoveUCL
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RSAI-BIS @rsaibis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
At each annual conference we have an early career plenary lecture and in Belfast this May that lecture will be given by Dr Ruth Neville @ruthneville20.bsky.social a research fellow in computational social science at @casaucl.bsky.social. Abstract submission deadline is Friday tinyurl.com/9szbc49y
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Belfast 2026 Conference Information
52nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE Belfast, Northern Ireland ​ 13 and 14 May, 2026
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If you're applying for our Connected Environments MSc, don't miss the UCL East Postgraduate Open Evening, featuring a specialist space tour of the Connected Environments Lab. 📍 UCL East, Marshgate 🗓️ 17:00 - 19:30, Wednesday 25 February Register now: bit.ly/3O0VBPb
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Great write-up by John 👇 CASA postdoc Mateo Seré co-authored this paper. We are stoked it’s out in AER!
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨🎓📚 I am super-excited to be joining the Economic Geography editorial board. Many thanks to the editors for having me! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rec... Follow EG here: @econgeog-journal.bsky.social Please send us your papers :)
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Economic Geography
Economic Geography publishes research that deepens the understanding of geographical drivers and implications of economic processes on the economy and society.
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
CASA Profs Max Nathan and Neave O'Clery, PhD student Bohao Su and Research Fellow Laura Mazzarino were at the recent Geography of Innovation conference in Budapest. The team presented work on migration, global supply chains, innovation networks and models for industrial diversification.
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
CASA's Ruth Neville has been announced as one of ten 2026 UCL Policy Fellows, co‑delivering projects for local needs. Ruth is among six Local Authority Policy Fellows, supporting policy development at Newham Council through population trend analysis. Find out more: tinyurl.com/cj7aenwa
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Today in the CASA Seminar Series: Sophie Flinders and Chris Hayes (Common Wealth) analyse privatisation of essential services and ask: Who Owns Britain? 🗓️ 16:00, Wed 28 Jan 📍 CASA Seminar Room, 90 Tottenham Court Road www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/…
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Congratulations to Professor Neave O'Clery on being awarded a grant from the ReCIPE programme, a CEPR initiative funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, for her project, 'Does economic entanglement reduce the risk of escalation from economic to military interstate conflict?'.
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Economic Geography Journal @econgeog-journal.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🎭 Are creative industries quietly remodeling cities? 🌃 In England and Wales, the association between creative activity and neighborhood gentrification is modest yet highly context-dependent—though evidently strong in large cities like London. 🔗 Read more at doi.org/10.1080/0013... #EconGeography
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Professor Max Nathan/the UCL Economic Geography Group have been awarded the UCL Grassroots Research Culture Seed Fund 2025/26, which funds locally led projects to improve UCL's research culture. www.ucl.ac.uk/research/news/2025/de…
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The CASA Connected Environments Lab, led by Prof Duncan Wilson & Prof Steven Gray, has built an IoT Bus Tracker for the shuttle service between Stratford Station & UCL East, designed and operated by students. studentsunionucl.org/articles/ucl-e…
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The CASA Seminar Series is back! Jonathan Bourne, THE 3TC AI A Decade of OCOD: Analysing ten years offshore owned residential property in England & Wales 🗓️ 16:00-17:00, 14 January 📍 CASA Seminar Room, 90 Tottenham Court Road www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/…
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
And a lot of our researchers publish their research and teaching code to GitHub too! (Think we need a dedicated page to point to all the resources!)
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