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USF Fellow Dr Junia Cambraia Mortimer joins the Urban Institute

The UI is excited to welcome Dr Junia Cambraia Mortimer as an Urban Studies International Fellow for 9 months under the mentorship of professors Dr Beth Perry and Dr AbdouMaliq Simone, working on visuality, urbanisation and environmental history.
Co Pro Futures Inquiry

Co-Pro Futures Inquiry – Call for Evidence and Ideas (Online Event)

Join us for an information-gathering exercise to harness expertise from people with insights about co-producing research. This online event will take place on Thursday 5th December 2024 0930-1100. Sign up via Eventbrite on the link below.

New report and policy brief on facilitating inclusive and just energy transitions

On 25 September 2024 the ESRC funded CESET project held a workshop at the Royal Society London to launch its policy recommendations on the role of community energy in mediating sustainable energy transitions. Watch the 'live' report of discussions.

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UI welcomes new research associate Dr Zhengli Huang

The UI is delighted to introduce their newest team member Dr Zhengli Huang. Zhengi will be working with Dr Jon Silver and other members of the UI team on the European Research Council project GlobalCORRIDOR.

CLASS annual report

Community-led urban transformation: Community Savers in 2023

Community Savers and CLASS are a cross-class alliance between an informal women led poverty action network and a tailored professional support agency which the UI and the Dep. of Urban Studies and Planning has supported and partnered with since 2017.

East Africa

Urban Studies' Book Review Symposium: "Politics and the Urban Frontier" by Tom Goodfellow

Heralded as a 'tour de force', Tom Goodfellow's book, Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa, is the subject of a book review symposium in Urban Studies.
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New report on refugee homelessness published

Holly Rooke, UI PhD Candidate and member of South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group, has co-written a blog with Aso Mohammadi, Kurdish journalist and migration researcher. It is published UK Centre for Collaborative Housing website.
Inequalities

Emerging Urban Inequalities – Workshops and Panel Debates

On 6-7 June 2024, the Urban Institute and Department of Urban Studies and Planning with the Doctoral Training Centre for Emerging Urban Inequalities are convening the Sheffield Urbanism PhD Workshop 2024 “Emerging Urban Inequalities”.
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UI welcomes new associate Dr Nabeela Ahmed

We are delighted to announce that Nabeela, a feminist critical geographer and Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, will be joining the UI team!