News

News stories

Call for bookn chapters
Credit: patpitchaya

Call for Chapters: The Routledge Handbook of Just Transitions

Linda Westman and colleagues are excited to announce a new book project which will capture the complexity and richness of just transition research through a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration. s
United Nations
Credit: Fred De Noyelle GODONG

UN DESA Open Call for Stakeholder Inputs

To support the work of the Independent Group of Scientists drafting the 2027 GSDR, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) is launching an Open Call for Stakeholder Inputs.
Borg Urbanism
Credit:Yuichiro Chino

Borg urbanism: emerging neural infrastructures of urban governance

Simon Marvin has published a new article in Urban Geography that explores the concept of Borg Urbanism to examine the urban implications of neurotechnologies that enable direct, bidirectional interfaces between human cognition and urban systems.
UI Book talk: Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River

Book Talk - Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River

Austin Zeiderman, Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics will discuss his new book on Monday 23 March 2026 3p-4pm in Teaching Room 2 in the Geography and Planning Building.

Map of the world

Call for speakers - 2021 Earth System Governance Conference

We invite contributions for the Earth System Governance Conference 2021 that focus on one of the three challenges of compound urban crises: unsettlement, unevenness, unbounding.
Sheffield at COP26

New briefing: From Asking Why to Thinking How: Emerging Challenges for Urban Climate Action
A profile picture of Simon Marvin

Simon Marvin presented at the Regions in Recovery E-Festival 2021
UI - News - Restoration of urban water

Restoration of Urban Water Commons

Hita Unnikrishnan and her colleagues have published a new open access article 'Restoration of Urban Water Commons' in Ecological Restoration.
International Students India

New blog post on urban environmental racism