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Podcast: Urban Research Labs in Times of Conflict and Post-Truth
Urban Research Labs in Times of Conflict and Post-Truth

Urban labs in times of conflict and post-truth

In this month’s feature of the Urban Radar Podcast, hosts Beth Perry and Tom Goodfellow are joined by Professors Nausheen Anwar and Mona Fawaz, Directors of the Karachi Urban Lab and Beirut Urban Lab respectively.

UI Co Pro Report

New evidence of barriers to co-produced research

The Co-Pro Futures project team is excited to share a new report synthesising the evidence gathered through the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry’s national Call for Evidence and Ideas.
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JustGESI project website launched

We are delighted to announce that the new project website for JustGESI, a 3-year interdisciplinary project funded by the UKRI’s Ayrton Challenge Programme and led by Professor Castan Broto is ‘live’.

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Radar 7: Urban Politics of Truth and Wealth (+AI data centres, +extreme heat, +pick pocketing, +more)

In this episode we are joined by Dr Katie Pruszynski and Professor Rowland Atkinson to explore how political and wealth elites are reshaping cities from New York to London and beyond.

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'Decolonial’ city-making: art, music, fashion and aesthetics

Please join the Decolonial Cities Collective’s second Dialogue event, a virtual conversation between Peju Layiwola, Red City Solidarity Disco and AFRI - 17th July 2023, 3pm-4.30pm

UI Visiting Fellow - Simone Toji

New release: Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow the UI

Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow at the University of Sheffield’s Urban Institute. In this powerful new work, she reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself.
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.