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The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025
The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025

Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 2026

We are pleased to share our Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme, brought to you by Urban Institute members from across the University of Sheffield.

Amazon Rainforest Brazil
Credit: Ignacio Palacios

Reapproaching extended urbanization in the Brazilian Amazonia

This online keynote is the opening keynote lecture in the Sheffield Urbanism programme. It is supported by Urban Institute in partnership with the University of Manchester (Global Development Institute and Department of Geography).

SDGs
Credit: kazumi miyamoto

Joint session on Frontier Science around the UN Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation for SDGs

Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism, will present at the session 'Frontier Science for the SDGs: Turning Breakthrough Research into Global Action through the GSDR 2027' – on 6 May at 8.15 EST - at a EU Delegation in New York.
Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya
Credit: Emad aljumah

Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison

Callum Ward and colleagues have published a new open access article in Urban Studies that argues a further analytical framework is required to research uneven geographies of the global state-housing-finance nexus.
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.

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New ESRC funded project robotics as a new urban infrastructure

Congratulations to Dr Aidan While and Professor Simon Marvin on their new ESRC funded project “Experimenting with robotics as a new urban infrastructure”.

Schools and communities

Workshop on Schools, Communities and Sustainability

The aim of the workshop is to understand how schools may play a stronger role in place-based environmental sustainability, neighbourhood regeneration, social and economic justice and community cohesion.

Olivia Casagrande

UI welcomes Dr Olivia Casagrande as an associate

Dr Olivia Casagrande is a social anthropologist and her research is concerned with society’s complex challenges such as racial inequalities, political and racial violence, and the (post)colonial city.