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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 13/07/2026

🚨 Starting in 2 hours - OPEN:LAB 26 🌿 Today's topic: What is Ecological Health? We’ll be inviting queries on topics such as pollution and biological stress as well as the role that data has in contextualising and communicating our health. Read More ⬇️ www.thecentriclab.com/open-lab-jul...

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Open Lab: July 26 — CENTRIC LAB

We’re inviting those who’ve worked through the Introduction to Ecological Health online course to a series of open-lab sessions. In these sessions we’ll be inviting people to ask specific questions in...

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/07/2026

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/07/2026

Thursday 16th July Community Health Impact Assessments. How communities can use the CHIA as a tool to increase health equity and justice. We'll specialise breakout rooms on: 1. CHIA as a tool of power, accountability, and politics; 2. CHIA as a tool of community relationships.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/07/2026

Wednesday 15th July Determinants of Health. We’ll be inviting enquiries on topics exploring how structural and systemic factors such as housing policy, local democracy, and the economy relate to health. We'll specialise breakout rooms on: 1. The Built Environment; 2. The Equality Act (2010).

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/07/2026

Tuesday 14th July Pathways to Health Injustice. We’ll be inviting enquiries on topics that are looking at the intersection of health and social justice justice, racism, trauma, gender discrimination, and PTSD. We'll specialise breakout rooms on: 1. Race & Class; 2. Environmental Justice.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/07/2026

Monday 13th July What is Ecological Health? We’ll be inviting enquiries on topics such as pollution and biological stress as well as the role that data has in contextualising and communicating our health. We'll specialise breakout rooms on: 1. Susceptibility & Stress; 2. Data & Health.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/07/2026

🗣️ ONE WEEK TO GO! OPEN:LAB / 2026 We’re opening up the doors and inviting those who’ve worked (mostly) through the Introduction to Ecological Health online course to a series of sessions to ask specific questions in relation to the course content. All are welcome.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 22/06/2026

Brendan Coolsaet et al have now finalized "Environmental justice in Europe, spatial dimensions". Available in open access on the website of Belgeo. It includes 15 articles, in French or in English, as well as an editorial (available in both languages): journals.openedition.org/belgeo/81567...

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4 | 2025 Environmental justice in Europe, spatial dimensions

Revue internationale de géographie et tribune pour la production géographique belge / International journal of geography and platform for the Belgian research in geography

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 28/05/2026

For those who haven’t yet accessed the free, online, self-learning and module based course, you can click here to read more. www.thecentriclab.com/an-introduct...

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An Introduction to Ecological Health — CENTRIC LAB

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 28/05/2026

In the open-house style, others will be join as a means to cross pollinate learning and invite feedback and ideas from all. By having conversations contextualised to the Introduction to Ecological Health online course we can work collectively to learn and embody health as an ecological construct.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 28/05/2026

Launching OPEN LAB: July 2026 📖 We’re inviting those who’ve worked through the Introduction to Ecological Health online course to a series of open-lab sessions. In these sessions we’ll be inviting people to ask specific questions in relation to the course content.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 11/05/2026

Who should attend: Researchers, public health professionals, environmental policy practitioners, science communicators, and anyone working at the intersection of environmental science, justice, and governance. www.eventbrite.com/e/up-close-p...

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Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis

What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises?

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 11/05/2026

At the heart of this event is the term planetary dysregulation. Using London's air pollution landscape as a policy case study, this panel will explore whether this framing offers new traction for scientists, advocates, and policymakers alike.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 11/05/2026

Join us for a panel discussion spotlighting Air is Kin, a community and scientific project led by Centric Lab that reimagines air as a relative: a complex living system whose health is inseparable from our own.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 11/05/2026

What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises? And what happens when science, community advocacy, and policy adopt a shared vocabulary rooted not in abstraction, but in lived experience?

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 11/05/2026

REMINDER FOR TOMORROW: Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis. Our event with UCL Public Policy on what role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises? 📅 Tuesday 12th May ⏰ 12-1pm (UK) 📍 online (free) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-p...

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Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis

What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises?

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 31/03/2026

Up Close and Policy is produced by @uclpublicpolicy.bsky.social. Lab director Araceli Camargo is speaking alongside: 🗣️ @ilankelman.bsky.social is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, and 🗣️ Poppy Lyle, currently Head of Air Quality at the Greater London Authority.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 31/03/2026

NEW EVENT What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises? And what happens when science, community advocacy, and policy adopt a shared vocabulary rooted not in abstraction, but in lived experience? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-p...

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Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis

What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises?

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 30/03/2026

We're currently working alongside this community group. If you're feeling generous or righteous, please consider donating to their campaign. Judicial reviews are powerful ways to set new legal precedence on environmental justice issues. www.crowdjustice.com/case/judicia...

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Stop a Toxic Gasworks Development causing London-wide Pollution

My name is Jude Allen. I'm a local resident and documentary filmmaker and member of a local community campaign fighting to stop a toxic gasworks development in West London.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/03/2026

🧠 We had our work featured in the @ukri.org & @theyoungfdn.bsky.social's new report on their Community Knowledge Fund. 🔗 www.youngfoundation.org/our-work/pub... Thanks to everyone who helps make this work happen!

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/03/2026

🏘️ With the National Retrofit Hub we launched 'The Role of Community Health Impact Assessments (CHIA) for Retrofit', a workbook for community organisers and policy/strategy designers working on retrofit at scale. 🔗 nationalretrofithub.org.uk/resource/the... cc @impurbanhealth.bsky.social

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/03/2026

Quite a week it's been. In case you missed it, here's what's happened in the world of Centric Lab this week. 📝 We launched the 'Introduction to Ecological Health' online course 🔗 www.thecentriclab.com/an-introduct...

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 03/03/2026

It's free to access and allows people to learn at their own pace. "The course was like a mini masters: the resources superb and the learning so wide ranging" www.thecentriclab.com/an-introduct...

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An Introduction to Ecological Health — CENTRIC LAB

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 03/03/2026

Four modules introduce learners to a range of topics. There's an opportunity to learn about how chronic stress and its relationship to the built environment, and how to use data to support advocacy, and how determinants of health frameworks help think to analyse how systems behave.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 03/03/2026

🔶 Introducing 🔶 AN INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGICAL HEALTH A self-led online learning journey. We're trying to equip community leaders and organisers with the tools and resources that validate their lived experiences, sustain, and accelerate their advocacy work. This course helps to achieve that.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 26/02/2026

You can sign up and engage with the course (for free) via this link 👇 www.thecentriclab.com/an-introduct...

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An Introduction to Ecological Health — CENTRIC LAB

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 26/02/2026

Module 4 is a step-by-step guide to putting this learned knowledge into action by creating a Community Health Impact Assessment.

Screenshot from online learning course covering some Key Learnings and Reflective Questions for course participants.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 26/02/2026

Module 3 introduces determinants of health theory and analysis, inviting you to explore the connected systems that influence our health.

Screenshot from online learning course lesson on the determinants of health focusing on a task to complete.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 26/02/2026

Module 2 deepens learnings from Module 1 by exploring how factors such as gender and racial discrimination influence health outcomes and how factors such as environmental justice burden some communities more than others.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 26/02/2026

Module 1 course offers framings of health that are rooted in social justice, intersectionality, and an ecological model of health.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 26/02/2026

There's an opportunity to learn about how chronic stress and its relationship to the built environment, and how to use data to support advocacy, and how determinants of health frameworks help think to analyse how systems behave.

Quote on stock image of a city background: "New research fields on legal, commercial, and political determinants of health and health inequities have emerged; however, these have not become integrated adequately into broader social structural determinants of health and health inequities frameworks."

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 26/02/2026

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 Today we launch the ‘Introduction to Ecological Health’ online learning course. It's a free, open access, space that brings together numerous learnings that we've produced over the years. Designed across four learning modules the course introduces learners to a range of topics.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 29/01/2026

Our January Newsletter is OUT CONTENTS 🔶 NEW COLLABORATION WORK: Health, Place, and Retrofit. 🔶 NEW BLOG: A Reflection on the Term 'Indicator' by Hannah Yu-Pearson 🔶 WHAT'S HAPPENING: A snapshot of the some of the projects we're working on a the moment. mailchi.mp/6fe57ce12f0b...

Hannah from Centric Lab leading a workshop with Portland Inn Project for our collaboration with National Retrofit Hub.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 27/11/2025

Today's article on the role of data and clean air advocacy: Urban Sacrifice Zone and Red Route Case Studies "If we socially accept pollution, the law only creates a boundary to dictate how much and in what context it is acceptable to pollute.” www.thecentriclab.com/aik-data-hj/...

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Urban Sacrifice Zone and Red Route Case Studies — CENTRIC LAB

Urban sacrifice zones and red routes are two concepts that demonstrate the harm to communities when pollution is not just a cause of harm but enabled by other structural inequities from policy and pla...

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 27/11/2025

Wednesday's belated piece 🙈 Applying Air Pollution Research to Community: Imperial LTN Case Study “…We draw too many conclusions from studies that are quite unique and quite related to one specific setting." www.thecentriclab.com/aik-data-hj/...

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Applying Air Pollution Research to Community: Imperial LTN Case Study — CENTRIC LAB

In health policy and urban planning, select scientific reporting is sometimes used to justify political decisions on the notion that science presents strong or irrefutable evidence. However, as scient...

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 25/11/2025

Today's piece: The Relationality Between Air Pollution and Health “Particulate matter is used to identify air quality and the condition of the environment but does not directly identify health as it does not account for the variance in susceptibility.” www.thecentriclab.com/aik-data-hj/...

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The Relationality Between Air Pollution and Health — CENTRIC LAB

Air pollution data, in the form of air quality monitor readings and models, is often used as a convenient proxy when institutions are talking about community health. However, air pollution and health ...

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 24/11/2025

It's #CleanAirWeek by the @unep.org discussing solutions for improving air quality in the Asia-Pacific region and we're going to be sharing some learnings everyday on our work in this area. First up: Defining Data for Health Justice www.thecentriclab.com/aik-data-hj/...

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Defining Data for Health Justice — CENTRIC LAB

Data is a powerful tool for justice and language for accountability. However, data can easily be manipulated and used to entrench inequities. In this lesson, I'll cover some of the fundamentals around...

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 10/11/2025

#6 From Leader to INFRASTRUCTURE Realising that our role was not to be the voice on subject matters, but to create the infrastructure for others whose voices needed to be heard.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 10/11/2025

#5 From Breadth to DEPTH Realising that it wasn’t important to be a think-tank and cover a wide range of issues ensuring all corners were covered. Instead, it was about going deeper into issues and building real relationships with partners.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 10/11/2025

#4 From Reform to AUTONOMY Realising that it was not about asking the system to change, but to be building the capacity for communities to act in their own imaginations, to be creating their own systems of care, autonomously.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 10/11/2025

#3 From Urbanism to MEDICINE Realising that there was a limit in which the built environment sectors could adapt to new, radical knowledge that was rooted in justice. This coincided with the emergence of medical and health professionals who could see how to apply our playbook to their sectors.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 10/11/2025

#2 From Structural to EMERGENT Realising that it was not enough for us to research, analyse and comment on health matters, we needed to give space to people on the front line to lead what research looked like, and what the research was trying to solve.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 10/11/2025

#1 From Law to LORE Realising that there was never going to be enough evidence to change the laws that create pollution via contamination and that our scope was on changing the lore.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 10/11/2025

From Health Councils to Healing Hubs In 2021, Centric Lab leaned into an emerging ontological shift with knowledge production. The result was to set up the Urban Health Council. @impurbanhealth.bsky.social came on board as partners shortly after. Here's our shared learnings from the past 3 years

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