About the Centre for Urban Culture

Aims and Objectives

The Centre for Urban Culture is located in the Department of History, School of History and Art History. Its aim is to bring together a number of the Schools in the Faculties of Arts and Law and Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham to foster interdisciplinary research on urban culture and to build links with UK and international institutions to encourage collaborative research. It is devoted to the history of cities all over the world during the last two hundred years. It offers an exciting research environment for postgraduate study.

Centre Staff

Professor Helen Meller (Director)
Dr June Hannam (deputy Director, Dept of History, University of West of England)

Management Committee

• Professor Chris Wrigley Head of School of History and Art History, Nottingham

• Professor Nicholas Hewitt Director of the Institute of Modern Cultural Studies, Nottingham

• Professor Dick Geary Department of History, Nottingham Arts Faculty Financial Advisor

• Professor Richard Rodger Director of the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester

• Jon Rouse Chief Executive of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

• Professor Donatella Calabi School of the History of Architecture, University of Venice.