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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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Book launch - Producing Mayaland 

Join Claudia Fonseca Alfaro to discuss her new book, Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism from the Antipode Book Series, Wiley.

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Urban Life at the Extensions

UI’s Senior Professorial Fellow AbdouMaliq Simone is taking up the third iteration of the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship.

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Decolonial Cities Beyond Justice

UI Associate Dr Tanzil Shafique has organised the Decolonial Cities Collective’s first Dialogue event, a virtual conversation between Heather Dorries (University of Toronto) and Monika Streule (LSE)
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The Urban Institute's Sheffield School delivers a musical piece in five movements

UI's Professor Maliq Simone and colleagues have recently published a collection of essays that arose from a series of curated online discussions initiated by the UI during lockdown with those working in urban labs across the global South.

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Fantastic opportunity - funded PhD studentship

This PhD studentship - Schools as Sites for Integrated Community Food Action - will investigate the potential of schools as sites for integrated community food action. It's fully funded for 3.5 year covering UK fees and a basic rate stipend.