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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.

Matthew Soules Talk

Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

We are excited to announce that Professor Matthew Soules an architect and urbanist who teaches design studios and history/theory seminar at The University of British Columbia will give a talk on 18 June 2024, 4pm-5pm in LT1 in Dainton Building.

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UI Associate Professor Rowland Atkinson publishes new articles

Rowland’s work focusses on gentrification and displacement, gated communities and their wider social effects, social mix and public housing estates and, most recently, the impact of the super-rich on urban life.
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Fascinating new film documenting experiences with water access in Nairobi

In 2023, UI PhD student Monica Martin Grau was awarded the Grantham GoFund, enabling her to document a series of workshops taking part during the development of her research in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Congratulations to Simon Marvin on new publications

UI’s Professor Simon Marvin has recently published an open access article in Urban Geography and a book chapter in an edited book published by Bristol University Press.

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Cultural Heritage and the Just City: A Dialogue between Cape Town and Sheffield (IN-PERSON)

Registration is now open for a seminar on Cultural Heritage and the Just City, co-organised by the Urban Institute, Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Department of Archaeology.