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Urban Political podcast
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Urban Political podcast on 'Corridors, Logistics, and Circulation’

Jon Silver recently appeared on the Urban Political podcast as part of the third episode of the Cities and Geopolitics.

Homeless in winter
Credit: Susan Halewood

Key note talk: Over-exposure: Enforcement, the Climate Emergency, and Entangled Urban Inequalities

You are invited to join an online key note delivered by Sam Burgum on Wednesday 1 July 1530-1700 that explores ore the entanglements of inequalities to understand something like ‘homelessness’ in its complexity.

Ganza
Credit: Shizhi Zhang

New Video and Blog: Insights from Our Fieldwork in China for PLURALIZE

In November 2025, the PLURALIZE research team conducted fieldwork in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan, China, as part of our project on Environmental Justice and Green Transition in Ganzi.

China workshop
Credit: Shizhi Zhang

Successful Workshop Studying China in the Age of Polycrisis

On Thursday 28 May 2026 the PLURALIZE Project held workshop looking across concepts, language, methods, imaginaries and collective horizons to examine power, governance, infrastructure and everyday life in China and beyond.
Plucky the chicken

Plucky steals the show

Mid-April saw the first Faculty of Social Sciences research showcase, intended to
share research happening across and beyond our community.
SDGs

Joint session on Frontier Science around the UN Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation for SDGs

Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism, will present at the session 'Frontier Science for the SDGs: Turning Breakthrough Research into Global Action through the GSDR 2027' – on 6 May at 8.15 EST - at a EU Delegation in New York.
Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya

Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison

Callum Ward and colleagues have published a new open access article in Urban Studies that argues a further analytical framework is required to research uneven geographies of the global state-housing-finance nexus.
New Housing Image

Liz Sharp publishes a new paper examining how the uptake and quality of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) might be enhanced in new housing estates

Published with co-authors Sarah Payne and Kiera Chapman, the paper examines how the often-overlooked land acquisition and valuation processes that shape environmental decision-making.
Sangita Thebe Limbu profile picture

Sangita Thebe Limbu presents JustGESI at the ECR Net Zero Conference

In March 2026 Sangita attended the Early Career Researchers Net Zero Conference at the Birmingham Conference and Events Centre to present work package 2 research of the JustGESI project, which focusses on the methodology of Institutional Ethnography.