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Notebooks by Roberto Monte-Mór 1983 - 2001

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.

Opportunity

Decolonial Cities: Research Associate Job Opportunity

UI Research Associate Dr Tanzil Shafique, Sheffield School of Architecture, is currently adverting an exciting job opportunity for a Research Associate position, working on a British Academy-funded project on Decolonial Cities.

Community is kindness

Co-producing critique and the impact of collective knowledge

Drawing on work carried out for the Realising Just Cities programme, UI Director Professor Beth Perry discusses how co-production enabled participants to collectively develop and refine a form of critique that can drive positive change.
SUI - Madeleine Pill, SUI Associate

Welcome to UI, Associate Madeleine Pill

We are excited to welcome Madeleine Pill from Urban Studies and Planning to join the UI team as an Associate.
The pirate function

The Pirate Function lecture now available on the UI YouTube channel

On 23 November 2022 Professor Kavita Philip, President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures, University of British Colombia, delivered the second lecture in the Sheffield Urbanism series ‘Co-production and the Future of Urban Epistemics’.
An Expressway in Eastern Africa - Photo by Joel Ongwech

Expressways to the Future? - Event Information

Date: Thursday, 19 January 2023
Time: 12:00-14:00 (EAT); 9:00-11:00 (GMT)
Location: British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA), Nairobi - Kenya