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USF Fellow Dr Junia Cambraia Mortimer joins the Urban Institute

The UI is excited to welcome Dr Junia Cambraia Mortimer as an Urban Studies International Fellow for 9 months under the mentorship of professors Dr Beth Perry and Dr AbdouMaliq Simone, working on visuality, urbanisation and environmental history.
Co Pro Futures Inquiry

Co-Pro Futures Inquiry – Call for Evidence and Ideas (Online Event)

Join us for an information-gathering exercise to harness expertise from people with insights about co-producing research. This online event will take place on Thursday 5th December 2024 0930-1100. Sign up via Eventbrite on the link below.

New report and policy brief on facilitating inclusive and just energy transitions

On 25 September 2024 the ESRC funded CESET project held a workshop at the Royal Society London to launch its policy recommendations on the role of community energy in mediating sustainable energy transitions. Watch the 'live' report of discussions.

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UI welcomes new research associate Dr Zhengli Huang

The UI is delighted to introduce their newest team member Dr Zhengli Huang. Zhengi will be working with Dr Jon Silver and other members of the UI team on the European Research Council project GlobalCORRIDOR.

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Call for Papers: Global China: International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative

Dr Linda Westman and colleagues are sponsoring a special issue seeks to update geographical scholarship on China’s growing global influence through the BRI by inviting geographical research contributions from an international perspective.
For a Liberatory Politics of Home

Book launch: For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione, available on YouTube

The Urban Institute hosted a hybrid event to launch Professor Michele Lancione's new book 'For a Liberatory Politics of Home' published by Duke University Press. The recording is now available on the UI YouTube Channel.

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Book launch - Epistemic Ambivalence: Pentecostalism and Candomblé in a Brazilian City

The UI are hosting a book launch for Dr Krzysztof Nawratek who has co-authored a new open access book, published by Routledge, with his colleagues Daniel Medeiros de Freitas, Carolina Maria Soares Lima and Bernardo Miranda Pataro.

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The Tangles Amongst Us: An Interweaving of Urbanities, Ontologies and Times

Registration now open for online attendance at two keynote lectures: Professor Patricia Noxolo, Chair in Postcolonial Geographies, University of Birmingham, and Dr Austin Zeiderman, Associate Professor of Geography, London School of Economic.
The Infrastructural South

Book talk by Dr Jon Silver - The Infrastructural South

Congratulations to UI Co-Director Dr Jon Silver on the publishing of his new book - The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization.