News News stories 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. 19 August 2025 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. 12 August 2025 Credit: TaTEDO-SESO 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’. 1 August 2025 Credit: Andrew Harnik 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. 30 July 2025 Search Professor Simon Marvin delivers keynote in Bangalore Simon was invited to give a keynote on “Urban AI: The “technisation of everything?” at the The AI and the City conference on 4th and 5th January 2025. 7 April 2025 Professor Simon Marvin attends the AAG 2025 in Detroit Simon attended The American Association of Geographers that brought together members of the global geographic community to learn from Detroit and its rich history of activism and creativity, radical cartography; and ecologies of land and water. 4 April 2025 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. 26 March 2025 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. 18 March 2025 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. 18 March 2025 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »