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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.

Zhengli Huang

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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The Urban Institute's Sheffield School delivers a musical piece in five movements

UI's Professor Maliq Simone and colleagues have recently published a collection of essays that arose from a series of curated online discussions initiated by the UI during lockdown with those working in urban labs across the global South.

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Fantastic opportunity - funded PhD studentship

This PhD studentship - Schools as Sites for Integrated Community Food Action - will investigate the potential of schools as sites for integrated community food action. It's fully funded for 3.5 year covering UK fees and a basic rate stipend.

Citizens of the world

Dialogues on Citizens of Worlds

Jennifer Gabrys is Chair in Media, Culture and Environment in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She will present her new book Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle, University of Minnesota Press.
Music gig

Join us for the UI free live music gig in Sheffield

As part of the program for the Inhabitation in the Anthropocene conference, the Urban Institute is organizing a gig at the Shakespeare Pub. The event will take place on Tuesday April 25 2023 from 8pm till late.

Tim Morton

The Silence of the Lawns - Guest lecture by Tim Morton

Philosopher and ecologist Tim Morton will deliver this guest lecture as part of the Urban Inhabitation in the Anthropocene Conference funded by the Lo-Act project and is part of a series of events of the Urban Institute’s Signature Programme.