Julia Harten's research leverages new data methods to study housing and socio-spatial inequality. She focuses on housing strategies of marginalized people and the role of cities and housing for social mobility, in Asia and North America.

We're proud she's one of us!

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January 2025 Part 2: Harten sounds the call for a Postdoc and a Graduate Research Assistant to kick her Data Science for Housing Research work into high gear!
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January 2025: Harten joins the Bridging Divides Research Program (which is committed to advancing knowledge about the challenges and opportunities that migrant integration poses in Canada and beyond) for her work.
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June 2024: Harten awarded the New Frontiers in Research Fund for her research into meaningful change in the housing crisis and to "democratise housing development, revolutionise housing supply, and unlock a new path for social science research leveraging ethical AI".

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April 2023: Harten presents her work so far showing stunning phenomena with housing strategies among marginalised peoples. She envisions large language models as a way to unravel the process to benefit all.

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Find out all about it at scarp.ubc.ca/urban