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Linda Westman has published a new journal article in Urban Geography

The open access article entitled "The discursive construction of urban climate policy" mobilizes the concept of discourse coalitions to showcase how cities were framed as an arena of intervention in the context of international climate policy.

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Call for Chapters: The Routledge Handbook of Just Transitions

Linda Westman and colleagues are excited to announce a new book project which will capture the complexity and richness of just transition research through a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration. s
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UN DESA Open Call for Stakeholder Inputs

To support the work of the Independent Group of Scientists drafting the 2027 GSDR, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) is launching an Open Call for Stakeholder Inputs.
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Borg urbanism: emerging neural infrastructures of urban governance

Simon Marvin has published a new article in Urban Geography that explores the concept of Borg Urbanism to examine the urban implications of neurotechnologies that enable direct, bidirectional interfaces between human cognition and urban systems.
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Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

This two-day early career researcher focussed 'masterclass' workshop will take place in person 23-24 June 2025 in the ICOSS Conference Room, 219 Portobello, S1 4DP and will include different speakers with expertise around a series of themes.

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Welcome Polly Clifton as Podcast Assistant for Urban Radar

The Urban Institute welcomes Polly as a new student assistant for the Urban Radar podcast where she will book booking facilities, support content development, promote and undertake post-production editing.

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Callum Ward joins as an Urban Institute Associate

The UI welcomes Callum Ward, Lecturer in Valuation and Governance in the Management School, as an Associate, to foster discussions on urban governance and financialisation at Sheffield.
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Call for Contributions: Rethinking Urban Nature from the South

As part of Tanzil Shafique's ongoing research project ReWET (www.rewet.info) this hybrid symposium will take place on Tuesday 15th April 2025 1200-1630 in the Arts Tower, University of Sheffield.

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Welcome UI Associate Rafaella Lima

Rafaella is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Management School where she is exploring how investor-developer firms direct investment flows and shape urban development across uneven geographies.