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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. 

We are delighted to share the news that our Director, Dr Ronita Bardhan has been promoted to Professor. This well-deserved recognition reflects her outstanding contributions to research, teaching, and academic leadership in the field of sustainable built environments.Warmest congratulations from all members of Sustainable Design Gorup, Professor Ro…

Ronita presents her research on data -led and equity driven built environment design solutions for gendered impacts from climate warming in the Global South at the Asian Development Bank - Rising Heat Rising Actions conference , 2nd June 2025, Bangkok, Thailand

Maoran Sun was nominated for oral presentation at the 44th EARSeL Symposium on Deciphering Exterior: Building Energy Efficiency Prediction with Emerging Urban Big Data. His research was selected to presented at the Young Scientist Awards Session 

Haiwei Li (Flora) wins the Best Presentation prize at the Department of Architecture, PhD Conference 2024-25. Her work centres around design research where she intends to develop low cost shading solutions to meet the cliamte related heat stress in resources constraint communities.  

Maoran Sun has been awarded the highly competitive Turing Enrichment Scheme as a placement student for 2024/25 at the Alan Turing Institute. Maoran's  research interest lies in urban analytics and decaronisation. Maoran’s research takes the approach of applying spatial data science to analyze the building characteristics, occupants’ socioeconomic s…

The work of Dr Ronita Bardhan and the Sustainable Design Group is featured as one of the key ways that Cambridge researchers are looking at and Using AI to Protect Nature and Climate . You can read more details about how Cambridge is #ShapingAIForEveryone and specifically tackling dementia via the following link: Turbocharging the race to protect n…

The work of Flora Haiwei Li and Dr Ronita Bardhan on cooling efficacy of trees is featured on Cambridge Research portfolio . You can read more details about how trees can be a potential nature based cooling solution depends where it is located in Cambridge Research News