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MPs: UK must protect aid for community-led energy access

MPs: UK must protect aid for community-led energy access

In December last year Professor Vanesa Castán Broto submitted evidence to a call from the International Development Committee in Parliament based on our research and findings from out ESRC GCRF funded project CESET.

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CESET work package 4 – the living energy lab complete!

The project involved creating a Community Energy Laboratory – non-commercial microgrid within the city of Maputo – serving as a practical demonstration site to deliver theoretical and empirical evidence into what works for ccommunity energy systems.

Uncover the Hidden World of 'Elite Spaces'

New Edited Collection to Uncover the Hidden World of 'Elite Spaces'

Rowland Atkinson and Mikael Holmqvist (University of Stockholm) have been contracted by Agenda Books to publish new scholarly work "Elite Spaces: Social prestige, spatial obscurity, political”.

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: What would a good experience of working with the university as a community researcher look or feel like?

We would like to invite community researchers and community organisations with experience of co-produced research partnerships with universities to participate in an online workshop as part of The Co-Production Futures Inquiry.
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Book Talk - Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa

In this talk Dr Peer Schouten will present is book "Roadblock Politics" as part of the ERC funded project GlobalCORRIDOR project seminar series. It will be chaired by Dr Prince Guma and after the presentation there will be a discussion and questions.

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Urban Life-Worlds in Contemporary Pakistan

The ERC project GlobalCORRIDOR is hosting an online event on Monday 27th November 2023 1pm-3pm GMT as part of its seminar series focussing on urbanization processes in Pakistan.
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Congratulations to Dr Jon Silver on the publication of "The Infrastructural South"

"The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization" is an in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield.

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Robotics Restructuring Lectures available to watch

This month, Dr Aidan While and Professor Simon Marvin have delivered presentations as part of the Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023 on "Robotic restructuring: Cities, climate and ecology".
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Automating Philosophy available on the Urban Institute YouTube Channel

On 14th September 2023 Luciana Parisi is Professor of Literature at Duke University presented on “Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines” (Critical Inquiry 48:2), part of her forthcoming book, Automating Philosophy.