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Call for Papers: Special issue of Environment and Urbanization

Colleagues are welcome to submit EoIs for this special issue edited by UI Associate Melanie Lombard and Martina Manara (UCL) on community-led responses to urban/ peri-urban land conflict, to be published October 2026.

Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities

Workshop on Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities

Urban Institute Associate Melanie Lombard recently ran a final project workshop in Cape Town, collaborating with South African and Colombian scholars and activists as part of her British Academy Urban crisis project.

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义 (Yi) means “appropriateness” or “righteousness,” referring to what is morally right and fitting. It conveys the virtue of doing what is just, acting with integrity, and upholding moral principles, regardless of personal gain.

PLURALIZE website launch

As part of the Urban Institute's 10th Anniversary Celebrations and the Sheffield Urbanism summer programme, the PLURALIZE project is launching its new project website!

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UI 10th and Sheffield Urbanism Programme

Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 23rd June to 4th July 2025

The summer programme is part of the Urban Institute’s 10 year anniversary celebrations and also marks 60 years since the establishment of urban studies and planning scholarship and research at the University of Sheffield.
UI - Visiting Fellow, Papia Sengupta

UI welcomes Dr. Papia Sengupta, Visiting Fellow from Delhi, India

Papia is a political scientist and public policy expert who works on the intersectionality between gender, language, education, and urban living in culturally diverse societies.

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New ESRC funded project robotics as a new urban infrastructure

Congratulations to Dr Aidan While and Professor Simon Marvin on their new ESRC funded project “Experimenting with robotics as a new urban infrastructure”.

Schools and communities

Workshop on Schools, Communities and Sustainability

The aim of the workshop is to understand how schools may play a stronger role in place-based environmental sustainability, neighbourhood regeneration, social and economic justice and community cohesion.

Olivia Casagrande

UI welcomes Dr Olivia Casagrande as an associate

Dr Olivia Casagrande is a social anthropologist and her research is concerned with society’s complex challenges such as racial inequalities, political and racial violence, and the (post)colonial city.
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Guest seminar: anti-planning narratives in Australia, Professor Nicole Gurran

In this seminar, Professor Nicole Gurran will deliver a seminar on ‘Anti-planning narratives, housing supply and affordability: An Australian case study’.