The Community
Introducing 15 Minutes with [ ], a new audio series showcasing the great minds from the Urban Health Council community.
Episode #1 is with Jake Heitland, Commercial Manager & Urban Strategist at Lendlease. Originally from small-town Wisconsin Jake landed in London a few years ago and supports multi-disciplinary teams to apply new models of thinking and working to large urban regeneration projects in the UK that have health, climate and equity at their core.
Episode #2 is with Becka Hudson, a doctoral researcher and campaigner around issues related to criminal justice institutions, racism and inequality based in London. Becka is currently an Associate of the End Solitary Confinement campaign, and have previously worked as Lead Coordinator at the Radical Housing Network, co-founder of the Reclaim Holloway Coalition, Communications Consultant at the 4Front Project, lead of the Free Drill campaign and co-founder of cultural activist networks for young people, including 'Fck Boris' and 'Grime4Corbyn'.
Episode #3 is with architect and founder of Matter Architecture, an award winning London based architecture practice. Roland has more than 20 years experience working as an Architect, an urban designer and as a public sector client. He also teaches and researches part-time at the University of East London. In 2017 he led a project with the Ministry of Justice to improve prison design for wellbeing which won an RIBA President's award for research. He is also a Design Council CABE Built Environment Expert, a High Streets Task Force Expert, a member of several design review panels, and a member of the RIBA Planning Advisory Group.
Episode #4 is with Professor Nick Tyler CBE of University College London.
Nick Tyler is the Director of the UCL Centre for Transport Studies and Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, and investigates the ways in which people interact with their immediate environments. He is also a Co-Director in the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Training Programme on the Ecological Brain, where he works with neuroscientists, psychologists, architects, computer vision, education and data analysts to create a multidisciplinary programme to discover how people navigate in the urban environment.
Episode #5 is with Martin Prince-Parrott.
Martin is an award-winning Architect and Development Director for SUB\URBAN WORKSHOP, an innovative ESG led developer + consultancy. Martin believes that property should enrich lives. He enthuses his projects with these ideas as well as advocates for them. As a result he has earned local + national recognition; Locally he was recognised as a, Birmingham Young Professional of the Year; Nationally he was recognised by PropertyWeek as a Resi Trailblazer and by EG as a Rising Star.
Our Current Members
Jake Heitland, Lendlease | Urbanist & Strategist
Hala El AKl, PLP Architecture | Architect
Angela Fonso, CASH | Clean Air Campaigner
Marketa Nosalova, TOWN Developments | Community Developer
Lee Evans, Human Nature Partnership | Urban Greening Champion
Abira Hussein, UCL & All Change Arts | Researcher and Producer
Nick Tyler, UCL | Professor in Civilised Engineering
Lucy Stewart, Snook | Service Designer
Guppi Bola, Decolonising Economics | Public Health Strategist
Imandeep Kaur, Civic Square | Community Innovation
Rob Stark, MAPP | Property Strategist
Amahra Spence, MAIA | Spatial Justice Advocate
Magali Thomson, LSE | Researcher & Academic
Ramsey Yassa, NOOMA | Architect
Jo Griffin | Social Justice Journalist
Alex Fefegha, COMUZI | Creative Technologist
Nick Shears, CGG | Environmental Data Science
Ben Hudson, Global Action Plan | Climate Change Impact
Priya Shah, BAME in Property | Diversity Campaigner
Kyle McFadden, Greystar | Business Strategist
Michael Cowdy, McGregor Coxall | Landscape Architect
Farzana Khan, Healing Justice LDN
James Pellatt, Great Portland Estates | Workplace Innovation
Holly Weir, PhD Researcher | Child Friendly Urban Planning
Vicky Gayle, The Bureau Local | Health Inequality Reporter
Craig McDougall, PhD Candidate | Blue Infrastructure & Rural Life
Dr. Gesche Huebner, UCL | Energy Equity
Becka Hudson, Birkbeck Law School | Human Rights Campaigner
Christine Murray, The Developer | Journalist
Jake Robinson, Uni of Sheffield | Microbiome Researcher
Esther Kane, MSc Biosocial Medical Anthropology at UCL
Roland Karthaus, Matter Architecture
Ssega Kiwanuka | Artist
Clare Delmar, ListentoLocals | Healthcare Entrepreneur & Urban Planning Campaigner
Astrid Ingemann Breitenstein, MSc Student in Medical Anthropology at UCL
Matthew Pembery, Architecture Student at the University of Bath
Martin Prince-Parrott FRSA | SUB\URBAN WORKSHOP
Charise Johnson, Policy & Advocacy Lead @JuliesBicycle
Elyssa Bakker, University of Michigan
Kayla Schulte, DPhil candidate in Sociology at University of Oxford in Air Pollution Inequities
Rae Mpashi-Marx, UNDP | Sustainability. Impact & Finance.
Marc Sansom, Salus Global | Healthy Cities
Rachel Edwards, Lendlease | Workplace & Urban Strategist
Dominique Staindl, Communications Consultant
Abi Deivanayagam, Jnr Dr. Climate & Health Justice, member of Race & Health Collective
Sophie Taysom, Keyah Consulting
David McAleavey, ISER PhD Student, University of Essex
Tatiana Grossman | Planetary Health Researcher
Georgia Richards, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation
Lucy K Wills, Service Design & Founder of GlobeFox Health
Rosie Haslem, Director at StreetSense
Zainab Alireza, Friends of Jeddah Parks
Julia Úbeda Briones, PhD candidate in Urban Data Science at TU Delft | Founder of SpaceTraces
Jonny Weston, It's Like This Studio | Third Sector Creative
Joe Swift, Environment Agency
Cathy Russell, Ryder Architecture
Paige Hodsman, Concept development at Ecophon | Wellbeing Researcher
Ron Bakker, Director at PLP Architecture
Polly Bass | Policy Designer at London Borough of Camden
Laura Valdés | Research & Policy Officer at Metropolis
Carolyn Axtell, Car Free London Campaigner at Possible
Rob Bryher, Car Free Campaigner at Possible
Salma Khatun, Medic & Social Entrepreneur
Ashley Gray, Loughborough University | Innovation in Future Health & Wellbeing
Andrew Grieve, Breathe London