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The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025
The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase, 2025

Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 2026

We are pleased to share our Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme, brought to you by Urban Institute members from across the University of Sheffield.

Amazon Rainforest Brazil
Credit: Ignacio Palacios

Reapproaching extended urbanization in the Brazilian Amazonia

This online keynote is the opening keynote lecture in the Sheffield Urbanism programme. It is supported by Urban Institute in partnership with the University of Manchester (Global Development Institute and Department of Geography).

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Credit: kazumi miyamoto

Joint session on Frontier Science around the UN Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation for SDGs

Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism, will present at the session 'Frontier Science for the SDGs: Turning Breakthrough Research into Global Action through the GSDR 2027' – on 6 May at 8.15 EST - at a EU Delegation in New York.
Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya
Credit: Emad aljumah

Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison

Callum Ward and colleagues have published a new open access article in Urban Studies that argues a further analytical framework is required to research uneven geographies of the global state-housing-finance nexus.
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JustGESI launches in Cape Town and Sheffield

During Urban October the Urban Institute is delighted to be organising two in-person launches for the JustGESI project - Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion for a Just Energy Transition in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
Join our team

Join our team - Research Project Administrator

The University of Sheffield is seeking to appoint a talented and highly motivated administrator to support a number of research projects and activities hosted by the Urban Institute.

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Vanesa Castán Broto joins new group of scientists to advance SDGs

Huge congratulations to Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism, for being selected by the United Nations to join a new group of scientists to help advance science-driven acceleration of the Sustainable Development Goals.

UI National Post-doc Appreciation Week

Celebrating our brilliant post-docs!

As the National Post-doc Appreciation Week comes to a close, we want to shout out to some of our current post-docs working within the Urban Institute!
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UI welcomes Junia Mortimer USF International Fellow

Following a competitive and successful application process the Urban Institute is delighted to welcome Junia Mortimer as an International Fellow from the Urban Studies Foundation (2025-2026).