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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.

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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.

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Urban Institute participate in the DSA conference

On 6th July 2022, the Urban Institute participated in the Development Studies Association Online Conference hosted by the University College London. The theme of this years conference was "Just sustainable futures in an urbanising and mobile world".

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2022 World Cities Report launched by UN-Habitat at the World Urban Forum

Can we anticipate the future of cities? How will we respond to future urban challenges? Vanesa Castán Broto, UI Professor of Climate Urbanism, and her colleagues – Ping Huang, Enora Robin, Linda Westman and Hita Unnikrishnan - contribute to WWR22!
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'The ‘West’ and the ‘Rising Powers’: Coloniality and contestation at the crossroads of just energy transitions'

Urban Institute Associate Ankit Kumar and his colleagues are organising a Special Issue and Workshop in Sheffield on 12-13 January 2023 and have issued a call for papers.

Towards a global housing studies

New special Issue of Housing Studies Published

Our Sheffield University colleague Ryan Powell and Urban Institute Professor Maliq Simone have just published a special journal issue on the prospects for a global understanding of the housing challenge.

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Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process

Fully revised and updated, Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process 5th edition bridges the gap between theory and methods in social research.