Welcome to Visions of Urban Heat Systems
Welcome to Visions of Urban Heat Systems
Visions of Urban Heat Systems is producing frameworks, tools and models to answer fundamental questions in order to inform long-term energy planning with the goal of promoting effective, informed, forward-looking decision-making among city stakeholders and ultimately aiding a radical transformation of our urban heat systems. The methods and tools developed in this research will be applied to two case-study cities, one in the UK and one in India, in order to co-produce visions of future urban energy systems.
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New Research Fellow in Urban Heat Systems joins team
Yulan Sheng, an interdisciplinary energy sustainability researcher, has joined the Visions of Urban Heat Systems project as a Research Fellow in Urban Heat Systems. Yulan is a Research Fellow in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Leeds. Prior to her current position, she completed her PhD at the University of...
Workshop - 16th May 2024: Co-producing solutions for Sustainable Cooling in Pune (India) to include narratives from Marginalised Communities
We are pleased to announce that the Visions of Urban Heat Systems team will be presenting their work on co-producing sustainable cooling in India on the 16th May 2024. The workshop will be held 09:45 am - 13:00 pm. The workshop will be held at the University of Leeds, EC Stoner SR (7.83). Sustainable cooling...
New partnership project: Establishing a Sustainable Cooling Pune Network
Dr Sumedha Basu and Dr Catherine Bale, at the Sustainable Research Institute, University of Leeds are partnering with Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha, (MKSSS) Dr Namrata Dhamankar and Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati at the College of Architecture for Women (BNCA) on this new Horizon Connect Fund project. The project will bring together a variety of stakeholders...