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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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Call for papers - 2023 ESG Radboud Conference panel

UI Senior Research Fellow Dr Linda Westman and her colleagues Marielle Papin and Rachel Macrorie are organising a panel session on "Governing urban transformation: Experimentation and scaling". The deadline for papers is 12 February 2023.

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Call for papers for RGS panel session on urban climate responses

Linda Westman, Hita Unnikrishnan & Lorraine Dongo are organising a panel at the 2023 RGS-IBG Conference, situated within the theme on climate changed geographies, which focuses explicitly on how climate change is, and is not, changing our discipline
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Congratulations to Dr Linda Westman on European Research Council Starting Grant

UI Senior Research Fellow, Dr Linda Westman, has been awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant to explore the possibilities of bringing ‘just transitions’ research to China.
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The rise of corporate landlords: swallowing the city

UI Jon Silver and Richard Goulding and their colleague Adam Leaver, have contributed an article to The Conversation "The rise of corporate landlords: how they are swallowing city centres like Manchester one block of flats at a time"
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New Report and Film: Schools as Community Infrastructure

In this new report, Beth Perry demonstrates how schools play critical roles as community infrastructure, bringing together physical and social infrastructures and networks of care and connection in the community.