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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.

UI Visiting Fellow - Claudia Fonseca

UI welcomes Dr Claudia Fonseca Alfaro as a Visiting Fellow

Claudia is Project Researcher at the Institute for Urban Research, Malmö University, Sweden. She is a postcolonial and feminist urban scholar with expertise in Latin America.

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Dialogues On Urban Inhabitation and the Urban Technical

Neferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. She will present her recent book, Remaindered Life, Duke University Press and discuss it with Teresa Caldeira and Nasser Abourahme
Urban Commons Handbook

New Urban Commons Handbook published

Architecture-UI PhD student Ana Mendez de Andes Aldama and her colleagues have published a new book that presents a compilation of definitions, experiences and references around some of the questions that arise when thinking about commoning the city.
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Researcher wanted for new ERC PLURALIZE project

Dr Linda Westman is looking to recruit a researcher to work full-time for 36 months on her new project PLURALIZE funded by ERC, that will redefine the agenda of just transitions in China, the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse gas emissions
Solar isn't shampoo

Solar isn't shampoo

UI Research Associate Dr Ankit Kumar has produced short animated film based on his research titled 'Solar Isn't Shampoo'.