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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.
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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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New paper on the value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities

Beth Perry, Vanesa Castán Broto and their colleagues Zarina Patel and Rita Sitas have just published a new open access paper in Sage Journals "Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities".
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Dialogues series - Automating Philosophy

Luciana is Professor of Literature at Duke University. She will present “Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines” (Critical Inquiry 48:2), part of her forthcoming book, Automating Philosophy
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'Decolonial’ city-making: art, music, fashion and aesthetics

Please join the Decolonial Cities Collective’s second Dialogue event, a virtual conversation between Peju Layiwola, Red City Solidarity Disco and AFRI - 17th July 2023, 3pm-4.30pm

UI Visiting Fellow - Simone Toji

New release: Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow the UI

Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow at the University of Sheffield’s Urban Institute. In this powerful new work, she reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself.
UI - Visiting Fellow, Papia Sengupta

UI welcomes Dr. Papia Sengupta, Visiting Fellow from Delhi, India

Papia is a political scientist and public policy expert who works on the intersectionality between gender, language, education, and urban living in culturally diverse societies.