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Call for Papers for The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026 The Urban Institute Team have a series of CfPs for the Conference later this year on a range of research themes – spatial inequalities, mapping and exploring how just transitions unfold within and bey...

Call for Papers for The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026

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Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization This workshop, incorporating film screening, book launch and panel discussion, brings together urban researchers exploring the geographies of extended and planetary urbanization through visual based m...

Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization

This workshop, incorporating film screening, book launch and panel discussion, brings together urban researchers exploring the geographies of extended and planetary urbanization through visual based methodologies.

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Illicit finance and the dark city economy Rowland Atkinson has been writing about the role of illicit finance in harming everyday communities and people in what he calls the dark city economy.

Illicit finance and the dark city economy

Rowland Atkinson has been writing about the role of illicit finance in harming everyday communities and people in what he calls the dark city economy.

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CfP RGS-IBG 2026: Cities in the Disinformation Age? Beth Perry, Urban Institute and Tom Goodfellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester are organising a session at the RGS in London 1-4 September 2026 and have a Call for Papers on 'C...

CfP RGS-IBG 2026: Cities in the Disinformation Age?

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URBAN RADAR 2025 As Series 2 of Urban Radar starts recording this January, here is your chance to catch up on the first year of episodes.

URBAN RADAR 2025
As Series 2 of our podcast Urban Radar starts recording this January, here is your chance to catch up on the first year of episodes

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Latest Urban Radar podcast is out

Feature 10: CHINA, THE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE RACE AND ITS URBAN IMPACTS - A panel with Jon Silver, Zhengli Huang and Linda Westman

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Community energy projects in Africa An online exhibition looking at the people and projects bringing sustainable energy solutions to communities in Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique features in Sheffield's Festival of Social Science from ...

Community energy projects in Africa

An online exhibition looking at the people and projects bringing sustainable energy solutions to communities in Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique features in Sheffield's Festival of Social Science from 23 October to 9 November 2025.

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The benefits of green schoolyards for school communities This year’s Festival of Social Sciences will feature an immersive installation demonstrating the benefits of green schoolyards for school communities and the wider city based on work carried out by Dr...

This year’s Festival of Social Sciences will feature an immersive installation demonstrating the benefits of green schoolyards for school communities and the wider city based on work carried out by Dr. Miguel Kanai in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Radar 10: GREEN RESURGENCE & GAZA RECONSTRUCTION (+Brexit, +rats, +Louvre heist, +AI Friend and more)

IT'S WORLD CITIES DAY! UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)

And a new episode of #urbanradar hits the airwaves.

⭐ RADAR 10: 🌳 GREEN RESURGENCE and 🏗️ GAZA RECONSTRUCTION

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And coming tomorrow online as our birthday celebrations continue...

Keynote Lecture 2: Beyond Splintering Urbanism

Professor Simon Marvin

Tuesday 21 October 2025 - 10:30am to 12:15pm

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Today!!!

Sign up for what will be another landmark contribution/provocation from Professor AbdouMaliq SImone..

Join us online to celebrate our 10th Birthday with Professor AbdouMaliq Simone

"That which is not decided: the edges of black urbanities"

Monday 20 October 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm (UK time)

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Urban-Nature Archives: Spatial Practices of Futurity in Brazilian Amazonia On 17 September 2025, USF International Fellow Junia Mortimer, based at the Urban Institute made her first talk on her project in the context of the Urban Institute Seminar Series.

Urban-Nature Archives: Spatial Practices of Futurity in Brazilian Amazonia

On 17 September 2025, USF International Fellow Junia Mortimer, based at the Urban Institute made her first talk on her project in the context of the Urban Institute Seminar Series.

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Ten Years of Urban Research – Happy Birthday to the Urban Institute As we enter Urban October we are pleased to share a series of events, gatherings and activities organised by the Urban Institute to celebrate ten years of urban research at the University of Sheffield...

It's our 10th Birthday!!!

As we enter Urban October we are pleased to share a series of events, gatherings and activities organised by the Urban Institute to celebrate ten years of urban research at the University of Sheffield.

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Listen to the latest episode of Urban Radar In this episode 'Urban informality and trans-local learning' Melanie Lombard and Diana Mitlin discuss the value of translocal learning to address poverty and inequality for women in low income communi...

Listen to the latest episode of Urban Radar
In this episode 'Urban informality and trans-local learning' Melanie Lombard and Diana Mitlin discuss the value of translocal learning to address poverty and inequality

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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.

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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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...

JustGESI launches in Cape Town and Sheffield
- Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion for a Just Energy Transition in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

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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 th...

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.

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This is happening online today, free for everyone to join

The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in Mexico, from Emma Regina Morales

Wednesday 24th September, 5-6pm BST

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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).

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)

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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!

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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Co-production of Knowledge in Action Co-production of actionable knowledge as a development strategy entails working in partnership with different institutions and sharing power so that communities can participate in planning urban futur...

New book from Vanesa Castán Broto + collaborators

Co-production of Knowledge in Action
Emancipatory strategies for urban equality

(OPEN ACCESS with UCL Press)

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The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion The leaked redevelopment plan pays homage to mega projects in the Gulf.

"The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion"

Jon Silver in the Conversation

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“No More Proletariat, or Unhappy People, or Oppressed”: Living Besides and the Collective Sensibilities of “Urban Popular Territories” Abstract. If not resilience, rebellion, or redemption; if not the last will become first; if not the romance with the wretched, how to characterize the pla

New Paper

“No More Proletariat, or Unhappy People, or Oppressed”: Living Besides and the Collective Sensibilities of “Urban Popular Territories” Open Access

AbdouMaliq Simone

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Online Book Launch: The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in Mexico, from Emma Regina Morales

🕰️ Wednesday 24th September, 5-6pm BST

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#UrbanRiches

Radar 8: Schooling and surviving in England and Sudan (+policing/protests, +flags/fakes, +mining and cities on the move) A new academic year, a new episode of Urban Radar Podcast, brought to you from across our urban studies community at the Social Sciences at The University of Sheffield.

A new academic year, a new episode of Urban Radar Podcast.

Radar 8: Schooling and surviving in England and Sudan (+policing/protests, +flags/fakes, +mining and cities on the move)

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Fugitive Planning and Black Studies: Critical Experiments
October 29 and 30, 2025

"Let us create spaces of knowledge, experimentation and listening where we can study, live and imagine in common"

Further information on the call, eligibility and how to apply here: lnkd.in/e7VNdbiX

'Global Corridor' offers a regular round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure.

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New evidence of barriers to co-produced research The Co-Pro Futures project team is excited to share a new report synthesising the evidence gathered through the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry’s national Call for Evidence and Ideas.

New evidence of barriers to co-produced research
The Co-Pro Futures project team is excited to share a new report synthesising the evidence gathered through the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry’s national Call for Evidence and Ideas.

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Urban labs in times of conflict and post-truth In this month’s feature of the Urban Radar Podcast, hosts Beth Perry and Tom Goodfellow are joined by Professors Nausheen Anwar and Mona Fawaz, Directors of the Karachi Urban Lab and Beirut Urban Lab ...

Urban labs in times of conflict and post-truth

In this month’s feature of the Urban Radar Podcast, hosts Beth Perry and Tom Goodfellow are joined by Professors Nausheen Anwar and Mona Fawaz, Directors of the Karachi Urban Lab and Beirut Urban Lab respectively.

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