Conventional wisdom seems to say that the growth of cities is beneficial for the happiness and well-being of people who move into and live in them.  The underlying assumption, as I understand it, is that larger, growing cities offer greater access to opportunities for employment, career advancement, higher income potential, and a sense of financial security and personal achievement.

The ERASMUS+ project on Employability in Programme Development in Higher Education, in which Professor Kristinn Hermanssonn is CR&DALL's lead investigator is offering a series of events in July 2023 in Barcelona (14 July) and online through four webinars (18 and 19 July). Flyers for each of the events, in which registration links are featured are attached below.

A new Open Access book presents the results of the major Horizon 2020 project, ENLIVEN: Encouraging Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive & Vibrant Europe within which CR&DALL core member Professor Ellen Boeren was an investigator. Chapters in the book discuss main insights from the project, which was led by Professor John Holford, Robert Peers Chair of Adult Education at the University of Nottingham.

We are very pleased to announce that Nematollah Azizi from the University of Kurdistan, Iran, has been appointed as Leverhulme Visiting Professor within the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, hosted within CR&DALL. We are most grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for funding this position from January 2023 for 12 months, and very much look forward to Nematollah's stay with us. He was previously a collaborator in our British Academy, Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)- funded project, Strengthening Urban Engagement of Universities in Asia and Africa (SUEUAA).