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Dr. Julia King is a Research Fellow at LSE Cities and a design practitioner. Trained as an architect her research, design practice, and teaching focus on urban marginalization, infrastructure, and public space. She is the director of the ‘Apprenticeship Programme in City Design’ and ‘Researcher in Residence’ scheme at LSE Cities. Both are novel outreach programmes which work with young adults to learn through practice at the LSE. Recent engagement has resulted in the real-time design development and realisation of several public space projects by the developers of Wembley Park from 2021 onwards. It is a legacy project of Seen and Heard - a study of privatised public space and youth culture - a project coordinated by Julia and commissioned by Brent 2020. More recent work with young girls has focused on the provision of space for young girls working in Crewe and Trowbridge. She has won numerous awards for her work including Emerging Woman Architect of the Year (2014), NLA Award, Civic Trust Regional Award and short-listed for a Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award. Her projects have been widely publicised, and she has authored chapters in ‘Home Economics’ (2016) and ‘Infrastructure Space’ (2017) and co-authored a chapter in ‘The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City’ (2017). She has previously taught on the Cities Programme at LSE and currently runs a BA unit at the Architectural Association.

Professor of Geography and Urban Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE Director of Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre

Dr Bert Provan is a Senior Policy Fellow and Knowledge Broker in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics. His research interests lie in housing, neighbourhood renewal and the social impact of regeneration, the impact of welfare reforms, social return on investment, and comparative French housing policies. Selected publications include   Extending the "move-on" period for newly granted refugees: Analysis of impacts and costs  (2020;) Never Just a Number: Evaluating the impact of a holistic approach to UK poverty  with Laura Lane, Ellie Benton and Anne Power (2018); The Impact  of Welfare Reforms on Social Housing Tenants  with Anne Power and Eileen Alexander (2015),  Moving on without moving out: the impacts of regeneration on the Rayners Lane Estate  with Anne Power and Alice Belotti (2016),  No place like an accessible home: Quality of life and opportunity for disabled people with accessible housing needs,  with Tania Burchardt and Ellie Suh (2016). Expertise:  French and European housing policies; housing and rough sleeping; neighbourhood renewal; social impact of regeneration; social return on investment LSE projects: City of Walbrzych: Technical Assistance for Mitigating the Social and Economic Challenges of The City   European Investment Bank, July 2020 Low Cost Home Ownership Schemes Social Mobility Commission, July 2017 No Place Like an Accessible Home Papworth Trust, July 2016 EuropaCity: Social Impact Assessment Study EuropaCity (Auchan), February 2014