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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 Community Energy Laboratory

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”.

Co pro futures

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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New paper on the value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities

Beth Perry, Vanesa Castán Broto and their colleagues Zarina Patel and Rita Sitas have just published a new open access paper in Sage Journals "Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities".
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Dialogues series - Automating Philosophy

Luciana is Professor of Literature at Duke University. She will present “Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines” (Critical Inquiry 48:2), part of her forthcoming book, Automating Philosophy
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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.