Lauren Andres

Professor Lauren Andres is Pro-Vice-Provost Inequalities – UCL Grand Challenge. She holds a Chair in Planning and Urban Transformations at the Bartlett School of Planning where she is also Director of Research. As an interdisciplinary urban studies scholar trained in geography and urban planning, her work focuses on adaptable cities and specifically the temporary and more permanent transformations faced by cities, people and places, in both lower, middle- and higher-income contexts. She specialises in research about crises and disruptions, how they challenge key priorities, affect the most vulnerable (particularly children and young people) while impacting policy making and urban governance.