The Berkeley Prize Competition for Undergraduate Dissertations in Architectural design Excellence. http://www.berkeleyprize.org/

This is a fantastic opportunity open to students of architecture all over the world. The underlying theme is that ARCHITECTURE IS A SOCIAL ART, so if you are a member of IAPS you will appreciate the pervasiveness behind it. My students have taken part to the competition for now 3 years, have won in some cases and have really enjoyed the experience. I sincerely recommend it to all teachers- Ombretta Romice

This is an extract from their statement of intentions:

"Through essay writing and a travel fellowship, the Berkeley Prize Endowment educates architects-in-training that the smallest act of building has global implications: that design can and does play a major role in the social, cultural, and psychological life of both the individual and society at large..." Read more on the website

• Thomas Fisher. Architects behaving badly. Read article

• Architecture Centre Network. http://www.architecturecentre.net/
  Architecture Centre Network acts as the catalyst for Architecture and Built Environment Centres in the United Kingdom and collaborators nationally and internationally. Click on: Links to leink to European and world-wide Architecture centres.
  
• Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE): www.cabe.org.uk
  The government's (UK) advisor on architecture, urban design and public space. This is a good resourse for Job adverts.
• Center for Sustainable Building Research - http://www.csbr.umn.edu/
  This site includes a variety of material on building evaluation and has been posted by Julie W Robinson from the University of Minnesota.

• Enable Age - http://www.enableage.arb.lu.se
  A forum to examine, in a European perspective, the home environment as a determinant for autonomy, participation, well-being and health in old age and by this create recommendations for healthy housing solutions across Europe.
  
• Enabler Website - http://www.enabler.nu
  This website concerns the Enabler, a concept and method for measuring and assessing accessibility in the physical environment. It provides tools for professional assessment of accessibility problems.
  
• Human- environment research laboratory: http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/~herl/
  Green environments researcher Frances Kuo has produced a series of evidence-based studies of the beneficial effects of green surroundings, and a richly illustrated popular, accessible version of the same material, aimed at potential users.
• InformeDesign: http://www.informedesign.com
  The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) provided funding and initiated a major program to develop a web-based resource of good research translated into language more familiar to designers. The InformeDesign covers many journals but is selective in the research that it summarizes, choosing only the most interesting, current and relevant articles.
• Informedesign: http://www.informedesign.umn.edu
  InformeDesign site which is a summary of design-oriented research. and has been posted by Julie W Robinson from the University of Minnesota.
• The Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
  http://www.ids.ac.uk
  It is a leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development.

• Institute for Research in Construction (Canada): http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
  contains newsletters, best practices, design guides.
• Making places: http://www.making-places.info/Places/
  Landscape architect Anne Beer has developed a very thorough site on evidence-based design.
• Polis. Urban Consulting. http://www.polis-city.com/
  Polis is the alliance of specialists consulting all issues of public space.
  
• Project for Public Slaces. http://www.pps.org/
  PPS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities.
  
• Research Design Connections:
  http://www.researchdesignconnections.com
  It ranslates recent research findings into a form readily applicable by architects, interior designers, industrial designers, landscape architects, facility managers, and other practitioners.
• RUDI: www.rudi.net
  Resources for Urban design Information - This is a good resourse for Job adverts.
• SAPLING: http://www.sapling.org.uk/
  Sapling is the Architecture, Planning & Landscape INformation Gateway - featuring more than 700 reviewed links to architecture, planning and landscape-related websites. By Graham Soul

• FIDER - Foundation for Interior Design Education Research: http://www.fider.org/
  has required that interior design students receive instruction in this area.

• Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)
• http://www.architectsforpeace.org - Architects for Peace. A humanitarian, not for profit professional organisation for architects, urban designers, engineers, planners, landscape architects and environmentalists, seeking urban development based on social justice, solidarity, respect and peace.
  
• APA - American Psychological Association
• IAAP: Environmental Psychology Division
• Architecture & Behaviour/Architecture & Comportement/publications, exhibit and conference information (in English and French)
• Environmental Psychology in the UK (EPUK)
• ACSP Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
• Council of EuropeEuropean cultural co-operation
• Design research society
• AEEA - European Association for Architectural Education
• CEU - Council for European Urbanism
• CNU - Congress for the New Urbanism
• European Union
• Fannie Mae Fundation
• IDF - International Development Forum
• IFHP -International Federation for Housing and Planning
• Global Planning Education Association Network
• ICLEI - The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
• OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• SOROS Fundation
• UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
• UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
• UN-HABITAT
  - Cities Alliance. Cities without slums
  - Best Practices Database
• WACLAC - Worlds Association of Cities
• World Heritage Cities (list)
  

• Division of Built Environment Analysis, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
• Department of Psychology, University of Surrey
• CTI Centre for the Built EnvironmentUniversity of Wales, Cardiff
• Ph.D. Program in Architecture Environment-Behavior Studies
  Department of Architecture / School of Architecture and Urban Planning University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• People-environment Research Unit at the University of Corunna (Laboratory of Social Psychology)
• Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture PhD Program
• School of Psychology at the University of St Andrews
• Unit for Architectural Studies, University College London
• Environmental Psychology at Colorado State University
• The Scott Sutherland School, Aberdeen
• Human-Environment Research Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Laboratoire de Psychologie Environnementale, Université René Descartes-Paris V
• USO-Built Graduate School, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Urban Planning Group, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, Eindhoven University of Technology

• Safer Places: A Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Resource Site

• Designing for the Ageing Society
• Environment & Gerontechnology Network (IAPS/EDRA)
• Institute for Gerontechnology (Eindhoven University of Technology)
• Institute on Aging and Environment (School of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• Herman Bouma Foundation for Gerontechnology

• Directory of Internet Resources on the Intersection of Women, Gender and Feminism with Urban Planning

• The Center for Health Design
• Institute for Environment and Health (IEH)

• European Network for Housing Research
• Searchable Housing Bibliography

• EDRA Nature & Ecology Network

• Environmental Design Resource Exchange

• Design Share

• Implosion: Architectural Anthropology
• Adaptive Environments
• Research Masters: Post Graduate Course in Art and Design
• Design Research Society (Designing Design Research 2 Proceedings)
• Medio Ambiente y Comportamiento Humano - Revista Internacional de Psicología Ambiental