A new academic year, a new episode of Urban Radar Podcast, brought to you from across our urban studies community at the Social Sciences at The University of Sheffield.
This month Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry are joined by Christina H Tatham from the School of Education and Cathy Wilcock from School of Geography and Planning, University of Sheffield for a post-summer bumper episode.
Listen to Christina reflecting on recent news England about stubborn inequalities in education outcomes and the Government's response to focus on intervention in early-years education matters. Christina draws on her work on multilingualism and thirdspaces in and outside the classroom to talk to Tom and Beth about why oracy - in any language - and play are so important for developing children's sense of belonging, confidence and capacity to learn (Go to 31:26 to get straight to this dive!)
Then tune in to Cathy discussing the ongoing civil war and conflict in Sudan, and how urban communities in and outside national boarders are finding ways to build resilience and retain diaspora identities. Cathy also shares her research on music scenes, resistance and revolution and how it can hold diaspora communities together (Skip to 52:20 if you want to get straight there).
And in Tom and Beth's 'roundabout' of news:
- Labubus & counterfeits in the city
- Local variations in policing protests
- Urban mining over time
- Trump's 'take over' of Washington DC
- The symbolism of flags & roundabouts
- How cities might survive the loss of their physical territory
Guests:
Dr Christina Tatham is a Lecturer in Early Childhood Education and has written widely on and in schools, including the use of creative methodologies and the importance of play.
Dr Cathy Wilcock is a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Geography and Planning whose work has focussed on, South Sudan and the formation and importance of diaspora communities, and music scenes.
Any feedback welcome as usual - in the comments, or email: UrbanRadar-group@sheffield.ac.uk