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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: What would a good experience of working with the university as a community researcher look or feel like?

We would like to invite community researchers and community organisations with experience of co-produced research partnerships with universities to participate in an online workshop as part of The Co-Production Futures Inquiry.
Uncover the Hidden World of 'Elite Spaces'

New Edited Collection to Uncover the Hidden World of 'Elite Spaces'

Rowland Atkinson and Mikael Holmqvist (University of Stockholm) have been contracted by Agenda Books to publish new scholarly work "Elite Spaces: Social prestige, spatial obscurity, political”.

Credit AbdouMaliq Simone, Mexico City
Credit AbdouMaliq Simone, Mexico City

Feature 9: Humanity’s Urban Future - with Ash Amin and AbdouMaliq Simone

In this month’s podcast feature Tom and Beth are joined by two leading scholars of the urban condition - Ash Amin and AbdouMaliq Simone - to reflect on questions of inclusion and belonging in the search for the 'good city'.

UI Panel on China

China, the Global infrastructure race and its urban impacts

In this feature, Tom and Beth discuss the Global Infrastructure Race with colleagues from the Urban Institute, recorded live as part of the UI’s 10 year anniversary celebrations.

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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.

Artificial Intelligence and the City

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.

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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.