Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE)

ProBE’s research is organised into six areas:

• Capital and labour relations in the production of the built environment
• Climate change, society and environmental design 
• Equality, diversity and inclusion in construction
• Oral and other histories of the production of the built environment
• Sustainable urban settlements and low carbon construction 
• Vocational education and training in the built environment

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ProBE's recent publications include:

• Urrutia, M. and Durán-Palma, F. (2023) ‘Chile – from Pinochet’s neoliberal counter-revolution to the 2019-20 anti-neoliberal revolt, in Atzeni, M., Mezzardi, A., Azzellini, D., Moore, P., Apitzsch, U. (eds) Research Handbook on the Global Political Economy of Work, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
• Borna, M., Woloshynowych, M., Schiano-Phan, R., Volpi, E.V. and Usman, M., (2022) A correlational analysis of COVID-19 incidence and mortality and urban determinants of vitamin D status across the London boroughs. Scientific Reports, 12(1), pp.1–11.
• Clarke, L., Duran-Palma, F., Sahin-Dikmen, M. (2021) Towards Nearly Zero Energy Building in Europe: Challenges of Vocational Education. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Cham: Springer.
• Georgiadou, M. C., and Loggia, C. (2021) Beyond self-help: learning from communities in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa, in Keith, M., de Souza Santos, A. (eds) African Cities and Collaborative Futures: Urban Platforms and Metropolitan Logistics, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

WBS

Professor Linda Clarke – Emeritus Director
Dr Fernando Duran-Palma - Director

A+C

Alastair Blyth – Director
Dr Rosa Schiano-Phan - Director
Professor Christine Wall – Emeritus Director

SSS

Dr Dan Greenwood – Associate Director
Dr Melahat Sahim-Dikmen – Senior Lecturer
 
ProBE’s broader research community includes a number of affiliates, visiting scholars and doctoral researchers. ProBE also has an Advisory Committee drawn from its members and long-standing research partners, key practitioners and experts.