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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.

 

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