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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.
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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.

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Sheffield Housing Summit: Addressing the Crisis Together

UI PhD Student Holly Rooke has been helping Nomad Opening Doors and South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group to organise this event, which aims to shed light on the alarming housing issue in Sheffield and discuss how it can be addressed.

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UI Associate wins half a million-pound grant for developing wetland stewardship programme

A global consortium, led by Tanzil Shafique, Lecturer of Urban Design at Sheffield School of Architecture have won a £499,995 research-to-action grant for "Climate impacted dwellers-led agroecological stewardship for restoring wetlands" project.

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Is neurotechnology the infrastructure of the future

UI Professor Simon Marvin and his colleague Allan McCay, University of Sydney, have published a new article in The Conversation entitled "Elon Musk’s brain implant company offers an intriguing glimpse of an internet connecting human minds".

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Living & working in a changing climate: women waste pickers' experience

The Urban Institute and the Institute for Global Sustainable Development at The University of Sheffield are excited to announce they are co-hosting a hybrid workshop and art exhibition in The Wave on Wednesday 17th April 1500-1730.

Everyday urban in Hanoi, Michele Lancione (2019)

The epistemic tangles of urban inhabitation

Applications now welcome to participate in a workshop on 23-24 May 2024 ‘The epistemic tangles of urban inhabitation’ organised jointly by the Urban Institute (University of Sheffield) and Beyond Inhabitation Lab (Polytechnic University of Turin).