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The Cambridge Sustainable Design Group is pleased to announce that Dr Jiayu Pan has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, jointly funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Isaac Newton Trust, to support a new research project exploring the intersecting challenges of heat, health and equity in the built environment.The project investigates…

Professor Bardhan was invited to Yale as a Visiting Professor to present her research at the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Environmental Sciences Program. The Hutchinson Program is a collaborative initiative between the Yale School of the Environment and the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture, bringing together leading scholars working at the interf…

Congratulations to Saitabau Kumary, a third-year PhD researcher in the group, on winning the Heat Adaptive Architecture Design Competition, organised by the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre in partnership with IFRC and the Global Disaster Preparedness Center.Supervised by Professor Ronita Bardhan, Saitabau’s research investigates how standardi…

The Cambridge Sustainable Design Group within the Department of Architecture invites applications for the role of Research Assistant/Associate in Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing for Decarbonisation of the Built Environment. The role holder will be working with Professor Ronita Bardhan and support an exciting and high-impact research project funded …

John Nguyen completed his MPhil in Urban Studies in 2025. His dissertation explored the integration of acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) into architectural design, with the aim of transforming traditional open-plan workplace environments into acoustically optimised, multi-zoned spaces. His research positioned AMMs as pivotal design elements, capable of…

Andres presents a talk and a poster of his PhD research on the quantification of the 3-30-300 in England using geospatial datasets at 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming for the Planet (PROPL 2025).. 

Research on "cooling efficacy of tress" led by Prof. Ronita Bardhan and PhD student Haiwei Li featured in Forbes

Sustainable Design Group ,University of Cambridge hosted researchers from the NUS Urban Analytics Lab led by Filip Biljecki from National University of Singapore for a Joint Seminar Day pn 27th June, 2025 in Cambridge. Both research groups presented joint seminars, and shared exciting research on decarbonisation of built environment, planetary heal…

MasterCard funded PhD student Saitabau Kumary wins the Postgraduate Research Symposium for African Scholars held on 30th June, 2025, Cambridge, UK. 

We are pleased to share that PhD candidate Maoran Sun presented her research titled ‘Heat Stress Dichotomy: Long-Term Adaptation and Acute Shock in London Domestic Environments’ at the 19th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM).The conference took place in London and was hosted by The Bartlett Centre …

Dr Jiayu Pan, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and Bye‑Fellow at Murray Edwards College, has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship 2025. The Leverhulme Fellowship is a highly competitive national award and supports outstanding researchers for three years.