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Call for Papers: Special issue of Environment and Urbanization

Colleagues are welcome to submit EoIs for this special issue edited by UI Associate Melanie Lombard and Martina Manara (UCL) on community-led responses to urban/ peri-urban land conflict, to be published October 2026.

Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities

Workshop on Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities

Urban Institute Associate Melanie Lombard recently ran a final project workshop in Cape Town, collaborating with South African and Colombian scholars and activists as part of her British Academy Urban crisis project.

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义 (Yi) means “appropriateness” or “righteousness,” referring to what is morally right and fitting. It conveys the virtue of doing what is just, acting with integrity, and upholding moral principles, regardless of personal gain.

PLURALIZE website launch

As part of the Urban Institute's 10th Anniversary Celebrations and the Sheffield Urbanism summer programme, the PLURALIZE project is launching its new project website!

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UI 10th and Sheffield Urbanism Programme

Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 23rd June to 4th July 2025

The summer programme is part of the Urban Institute’s 10 year anniversary celebrations and also marks 60 years since the establishment of urban studies and planning scholarship and research at the University of Sheffield.
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Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

This two-day early career researcher focussed 'masterclass' workshop will take place in person 23-24 June 2025 in the ICOSS Conference Room, 219 Portobello, S1 4DP and will include different speakers with expertise around a series of themes.

Polly Clifton

Welcome Polly Clifton as Podcast Assistant for Urban Radar

The Urban Institute welcomes Polly as a new student assistant for the Urban Radar podcast where she will book booking facilities, support content development, promote and undertake post-production editing.

Callum Ward

Callum Ward joins as an Urban Institute Associate

The UI welcomes Callum Ward, Lecturer in Valuation and Governance in the Management School, as an Associate, to foster discussions on urban governance and financialisation at Sheffield.
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Call for Contributions: Rethinking Urban Nature from the South

As part of Tanzil Shafique's ongoing research project ReWET (www.rewet.info) this hybrid symposium will take place on Tuesday 15th April 2025 1200-1630 in the Arts Tower, University of Sheffield.

Rafaella Lima

Welcome UI Associate Rafaella Lima

Rafaella is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Management School where she is investigating how asset management firms extract and protect wealth through real estate and shape urban development across uneven geographies.