CASA’s new office space.

And @casaucl.bsky.social has a new home! Goodbye 90TCR and hello Maple House

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/article/pii/S259...

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.

https://csh.ac.at/

A presentation at AAG 2026

@casaucl.bsky.social’s Thomas Murat kicking things off in his #AAG26 session about simulating bus-mobility.

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/mar...

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

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

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/mar...

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.

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.

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...

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: https://tinyurl.com/jkt6x7rs

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.

https://bit.ly/4co5e4m

Black and white portrait of Mike Collins against a leafy backdrop.

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/feb/m...

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: https://bit.ly/4qwIiDA

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

Belfast 2026 Conference Information 52nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE Belfast, Northern Ireland ​ 13 and 14 May, 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

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

Great write-up by John 👇

CASA postdoc Mateo Seré co-authored this paper. We are stoked it’s out in AER!

Economic Geography Economic Geography publishes research that deepens the understanding of geographical drivers and implications of economic processes on the economy and society.

🚨🎓📚 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 :)

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.

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: https://tinyurl.com/cj7aenwa

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/jan...

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?'.

🎭 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

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/dec/u...

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-east-shuttl...

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/jan...

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!)

CASA is now closed for the festive break, reopening for 2026 on Monday 05 January.

We'd like to thank all of our students and staff for all your hard work and commitment in 2025.

Wishing a merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all our students, staff, friends and alumni!

The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis Postgraduate Virtual Open Day October 2025 The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis virtual open day presentation. Recorded October 2025.

CASA recently held a virtual open day for prospective master's students, providing an insight into our innovative programmes and committed staff.

Check out the video to recap: https://bit.ly/3Y2xTDW

Find out more about our master's programmes: https://bit.ly/3KT2Ya8

#UCL #Bartlett #CASA #MSc