Workshops & Events

Mon 11 May 2026 - Tues 12 May 2026

As chronic heat becomes the ‘new normal’ baseline in Europe, what does an urban political ecology perspective add to our understanding of city life under heat? Is there life beyond the air-conditioning technofix? 

Katie Meehan, in collaboration with Hug March, convened a workshop on the urban political ecologies of heat in metropolitan Europe aimed at tacking these questions. Hosted by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), co-sponsored by European Urban and Regional Studies, the workshop brought together scholars examining how extreme heat is unevenly experienced, governed, and contested across European cities.

Mon 8 Sept 2025 - Fri 13th Sept 2025

Following several months of intensive qualitative fieldwork across our case study sites, our team convened at Friday Harbor Laboratories, Helen Whiteley Center, University of Washington, USA, for a five-day intensive data analysis and writing workshop.

Throughout the week we developed strategies for cross-comparative analysis, collaborative writing projects, and research impact activities with community partners.

Mon 21 July 2025 - Fri 1 August 2025

The Plumbing Poverty team — along with a team of enumerators from King’s College London — organised and carried out a large-scale survey of household water insecurity in Dublin, Ireland, one of our case cities where water issues materialise in quiet, invisible, and troubling ways.

Our enumerators gathered stories of tap water avoidance, brown water from the taps, infrastructure disrepair, flooding and leaks, fear of lead and other contaminants, Irish heat waves, and a strong sense of community reliance and solidarity.

Mon 19 May 2025 - Tues 20 May 2025

Hosted by Institut Metròpoli and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, our team convened the second EUROWISE workshop following the success of the first workshop in August, 2024.

Over two intensive days, we refined and finalised the EUROWISE data dictionary and survey instrument, developed a co-authored manuscript, and coordinated future rounds of comparative data collection across participating case sites.

Wed 28 Aug 2024 – Fri 30 Aug 2024

Organizers: Katie Meehan | Lucia Cerrada Morato | Lucy Everitt

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008, residents in postcrisis countries are living in precarious housing situations without secure or reliable access to basic services—including safe drinking water and sanitation. For the 2024 Annual Conference of the RGS-IBG in London, we organized two sessions (a paper session and a World Café) to bring together cutting-edge research on the housing-water nexus in high-income countries.

Tues 27th August 2024

Our team organised and convened the first meeting of EURO-WISE: the European branch of the Household Water Insecurity Experiences Network. With participants from across Europe, we fostered research networks and collaboration opportunities for European scholars working on household water issues.

Mon 11 Feb 2024 – Fri 15 Feb 2024

Hosted by the TURBA Lab at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the team met in Barcelona for an in-depth week of data analysis, R code development, writing manuscripts, and meetings with project stakeholders and collaborators (at la Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona) and advisory board member Prof Hug March (UOC).

Mon 13 Nov 2023 – Fri 17 Nov 2023

The team convened at King’s College London for our first intensive workshop. Topics included census microdata analysis and visualization, manuscript development, and project planning.