@itsbethperry
Prof Urban Epistemics (Sheffield Uni) - insatiably curious, firmly undisciplined, research-action. @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institute Linked-In /sheffield-urbanism www.tinyurl.com/urbanradar
Fifth run for War Child UK completed today. Quite a hard one, not least because of how much has changed since I started this last October, and how many more children have been killed or injured in all these wars
You can sponsor me here - please do
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One for the weekend
Would you... Could you... Should you get in a self-driving taxi?
As London gears up for its first trial, #UrbanRadar discusses the promise and pitfalls of robotic urban infrastructure with Aidan While
With @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social as usual
New podcast episode now available
URBAN ROBOTICS BY STEALTH
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plus a range of other issues as usual
All recorded before the weekend - how things change
With Aidan While, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
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.
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Catch up with the latest urban radar podcast ...
Here's a sneak peek of @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social
@xuniamortimer.bsky.social @ctemenos.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
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How can we see and understand complex and volatile cities?
How might we use and analyse photographs and archives in urban research?
Listen to latest #urbanradar podcast with @xuniamortimer.bsky.social and @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social
With @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
Here we go! Series two underway. Launch of exciting new collaboration across the North of England!
Here's the wrap up of #urbanradar for 2025!
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- #Bogota's care blocks
- #Subtervising
- Scrapping trial by #jury
- #US #Security Strategy
- #Australia's #social #media ban
- #Syrian cities one year on
@itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
Sneaky listen of Julia Moses talking with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on #urbanradar
About child labour and urban and rural dimensions drawing on her project @glosoc.bsky.social
If you've not signed up, check out the Global Corridor newsletter here ... Critical geopolitical reading of forces shaping urban worlds
@theurbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @drabioconnor.bsky.social @eyeofraf.bsky.social @callumny.bsky.social
Free book! Download now if you're interested in the material geographies of the belt and road initiative
@invisiblemapper.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social
And listen to Jon talking about some of the work on the #urbanradar podcast here
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Learnt so much chatting with Julia and Dani on the latest #urbanradar podcast
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And quite a bit of lying on my part (though I do actually like elephants)
Am going for run 2 tomorrow! Any sponsorship for @warchilduk.bsky.social much needed
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Listen here for latest pod featuring colleagues @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @zhengli-huang.bsky.social and Linda Westman in discussion with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social about China, the Global Infrastructure Race and Its Urban Impacts
www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
And he won! For some insight into how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got there, listen to the discussion from July with @katiepruszynski.bsky.social, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
Full episode here open.spotify.com/episode/2GhJ...
Skip to 25:10 for more
Join us for a full day of mobilisation at the University of Sheffield on 11/11/2025 from 11am to 4pm (no need to register)
Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
@un-habitat.bsky.social World Cities Day! And another episode of #urbanradar
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Tune in for @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social talking @zackpolanski.bsky.social with @mattflinders.bsky.social, & Gaza reconstruction with Said Zaaneen
Another taster of the latest #UrbanRadar feature on Humanity's Urban Future with Ash Amin, @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social
@britishacademy.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social
Listen to this clip of @xazaaradjame.bsky.social in conversation with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with Ash Amin, drawing on work for @britishacademy.bsky.social and CIFAR
@michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
A very special episode of #UrbanRadar #podcast to share this Urban October.
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HUMANITY'S URBAN FUTURE with @xazaaradjame.bsky.social and Ash Amin
Featuring work funded by CIFAR with the @britishacademy.bsky.social
Running 12 half-marathons in 12 months for @warchilduk.bsky.social
First run completed today. 11 to go!
Please sponsor me if you can - www.justgiving.com/page/bethper...
And here's @simonrushton.bsky.social chatting to the very same @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on Nepal's uprising and local peace-building processes in Colombia
Sneak preview of @samburgum.bsky.social speaking to #urbanradar podcast hosts @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social on this month's radar
New episode of #UrbanRadar!
In this month’s scan of global urban news, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social discuss #HOMELESSNESS in the UK with @samburgum.bsky.social, before turning to the #UPRISING in Nepal with @simonrushton.bsky.social:
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Skibidi, and Oxford Road / Street madness. Listen here for the beginning of my public downfall as I lose all credibility...
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New episode out now! A great listen for researchers, students, and advocates for knowledge coproduction
Featuring Diana Mitlin, Melanie Lombard, myself & @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
@coprofutures.bsky.social @africancities.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social
I was fortunate enough to interview @andyburnham.bsky.social for #urbanradar podcast and hear first-hand about broken Britain & what is needed to rewire systems and rebalance power
I was convinced by much of it - listen here
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www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
"This article examines the doubleness of precarity as an atmosphere of both how life is made marginal and how life exceeds the margins imposed."
@xazaaradjame.bsky.social
Check out new article below
Looking forward to this workshop with @glynowilliams.bsky.social @tshafique.bsky.social and adam abdullah as part of our programme on urban #epistemics
Tues 7th October, online, all day
