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The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025
The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025

Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 2026

We are pleased to share our Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme, brought to you by Urban Institute members from across the University of Sheffield.

Amazon Rainforest Brazil
Credit: Ignacio Palacios

Reapproaching extended urbanization in the Brazilian Amazonia

This online keynote is the opening keynote lecture in the Sheffield Urbanism programme. It is supported by Urban Institute in partnership with the University of Manchester (Global Development Institute and Department of Geography).

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Credit: kazumi miyamoto

Joint session on Frontier Science around the UN Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation for SDGs

Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism, will present at the session 'Frontier Science for the SDGs: Turning Breakthrough Research into Global Action through the GSDR 2027' – on 6 May at 8.15 EST - at a EU Delegation in New York.
Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya
Credit: Emad aljumah

Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison

Callum Ward and colleagues have published a new open access article in Urban Studies that argues a further analytical framework is required to research uneven geographies of the global state-housing-finance nexus.
Plucky the chicken

Plucky steals the show

Mid-April saw the first Faculty of Social Sciences research showcase, intended to
share research happening across and beyond our community.
New Housing Image

Liz Sharp publishes a new paper examining how the uptake and quality of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) might be enhanced in new housing estates

Published with co-authors Sarah Payne and Kiera Chapman, the paper examines how the often-overlooked land acquisition and valuation processes that shape environmental decision-making.
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Sangita Thebe Limbu presents JustGESI at the ECR Net Zero Conference

In March 2026 Sangita attended the Early Career Researchers Net Zero Conference at the Birmingham Conference and Events Centre to present work package 2 research of the JustGESI project, which focusses on the methodology of Institutional Ethnography.
UI Air con

New article on modulating the indoor–outdoor urban boundary

Simon Marvin has published a new open access article entitled "Modulating the indoor–outdoor urban boundary: Inversion, reversion and extension" in the journal of Urban Studies.

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New Urban Radar Podcast: Property and Urbicide

This month, Tom and Beth are joined by Hannah Sender University of Sheffield, and Mariam Bazzi Beirut Urban Lab, to discuss how propertied families in small towns in Lebanon have responded to violence and displacement over the past years.