香港六合彩中特网

Research Fellow

Development Planning Unit

Faculty of the Built Environment

Joined 香港六合彩中特网 September 2011

I am currently the lead Research Fellow at the DFID-funded research 鈥淎T2030 Community led solutions: Assistive Technologies in Informal Settlements鈥�. The research focuses on how collective and community-led responses can empower disabled people to access better life outcomes, through increasing the relevance and uptake of assistive technologies in Sierra Leone and Indonesia. The research is part of the global programme 鈥淎T2030: Life-Changing Assistive Technologies for all鈥� led by the Global Disability Innovation Hub in collaboration with the World Health Organisation.

My research interests focus on urban informality, social diversity and the use of visual participatory methods. My previous research and PhD thesis focused on informal housing with a gender approach. It examined the notion of 鈥榟ome鈥� and the political role of 鈥榟ome-making practices鈥� in women鈥檚 struggles for housing in informal settlements in Chile.

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As a Teaching Fellow and Teaching Assistant at 香港六合彩中特网 (2013 鈥� 2018), I have taught on the MSc Social Development Practice and MSc Urban Development Planning at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, and supported field trips to Brazil, Kenya, Tanzania and London.

These include the following sessions and modules: 听

• Module Social Development and Practice 鈥� including fieldtrips to Kenya, Brazil, Tanzania and London.
• Guest Lecture at PhD seminars: 鈥淨ualitative Methodology in PhD research鈥�.
• Guest Lecture at Social Policy and Citizenship: 鈥淗uman Development and Social Policy鈥�
• Guest Lecture at Communication, Technologies and Social Power: 鈥�Participatory Photography as an advocacy and research tool鈥�. 听听
• Guest Lecture at Practice in Urban Development: 鈥淨ualitative Research Methods鈥�
• Global Citizenship Programme, University College of London (London, UK): 听2-week programme on 鈥楽ustainable Cities鈥� for undergraduates that engages students with debates on sustainable development (2014, 2016, 2017).
• Guest Lecture at the Institute of Sociology, Technische Universit盲t (Berlin, Germany). 鈥�Conceptualising housing and its implication to design and citizen鈥檚 participation鈥�.

I also continue to do guest lectures in the MSc Social Development Practice and supervise masters dissertations in the following areas:

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• Low-income housing and slum upgrading
• Citizenship, everyday politics and insurgent practices
• Community participation and social movements
• Gender, disability and social diversity
• Ethnographic methodologies

University College London

PhD, Development Planning | 2019

University College London

MSc, Social Development Practice | 2012

Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile

BSc, Psychology | 2008

I am a social development practitioner, with an MSc in Social Development Practice and a PhD in Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. I have worked with multidisciplinary teams doing research, and as a project manager both in academic institutions as well as in NGOs. I have field experience in Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanzania, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia and The Philippines.
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I鈥檝e worked extensively with NGOs supporting informal settlements to access housing in Latin America, implementing social programs, and working alongside dwellers and policy officers to find sustainable housing solutions. In this role, I was invited to speak at the United Nations in Geneva in the context of the post-2015 agenda for extreme poverty, and chaired the side-event at the 25th Human Rights Council,听鈥淧overty, Exclusion and the right to Housing in Latin America鈥�.
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My research interests focus on urban informality, social diversity and the use of participatory methods. My PhD thesis examined the political role of home-making practices in women鈥檚 struggles for housing in informal settlements in Vi帽a del Mar, Chile. The research used qualitative visual methods, including participatory photography and video. As a Teaching Fellow at 香港六合彩中特网, I have taught at the MSc Social Development Practice and MSc Urban Development Planning.听I am a听registered researcher at the Centre of Studies of Home (UK) and a research associate at听the Research Centre of Territorial Vulnerability and Informality (CINVIT)听(Chile). 听

Ossul-Vermehren, I. (2018). The Politics of Home-Making: A gender-based approach to self-help housing. Revista INVI. 33(93). 9-51.

Ossul-Vermehren, I. (2018). Lo Pol铆tico de Hacer-Hogar: Una mirada de g茅nero a la vivienda autoconstru铆da. Revista INVI. 33(93). 9-51.

Berroeta, H., Carvalho, L., Di Masso, A., & Ossul Vermehren, I. (2017). Apego al lugar: una aproximaci贸n psicoambiental a la vinculaci贸n afectiva con el entorno en procesos de reconstrucci贸n del h谩bitat residencial. Revista INVI, 32(91), 113鈥�139.

Ossul-Vermehren, I. (2018). Allegados. In A. Ledeneva (Ed.), The Global Encyclopedia of Informality, volume 2 (pp. 19鈥�23). London: 香港六合彩中特网 PRESS.

Fernandes, A., Frediani A., Ossul Vermehren, I., Morgado Mendoza M. & Risi, F. (Eds). (2018). Collective Practices, Instruments for Collective Action and the Right to the City in Salvador, Bahia/Pr谩ticas Coletivas, Instrumentos para A莽茫o e o Direito 脿 Cidade em Salvador, Bahia. London: 香港六合彩中特网 Development Planning Unit.

Frediani, A., Monson, T., & Ossul Vermehren, I. (Eds.). (2017). Collective Practices and the right to the city in Salvador, Brazil. London: 香港六合彩中特网 Development Planning Unit.

Frediani, A., Monson, T., & Ossul Vermehren, I. (Eds.). (2016). Campaigning through Images: Exploring Housing Rights in North London. London: 香港六合彩中特网 Development Planning Unit.