Writer, editor, speaker, consultant, cartoonist, illustrator. Author, The Dictionary of Urbanism. Editor, Context. Plandemonium videos. http://robcowan.co.uk
Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @LeverhulmeTrust.bsky.social
placememory.net
Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual masters, Buddha's teachings and putting the teachings into practice. Tibet,Tibetan people as well as others who are suffering.
Photo: The Dalai Lama
On my right is Yahne Le Toumelin, mother of Matthieu Ricard.
Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
Associate Professor in Planning and Urban Regeneration at University of Cambridge, Land Economy.
Fellow of Downing College.
Economic Geography & Planning: Local Economic Development, Urban and Regional Transformations.
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dad／urbanist／assoc.prof. transition design + urban studies｜waseda university｜Tokyo｜co-learning／co-design｜public spaces／spheres｜urban practices／theories｜place {un}making／becoming｜climate + sustainability／resilience
I hear tell of a great evil stirrin’ here in this world, sai, a darkness risin’ like a storm over the land. I’ve been drawn to this place, by ka’s will, to stand against it and bring it low, if the Tower permits
Senior lecturer - urban planning/politics/geography. Newcastle University
Anglófilo. Do Dépor. Nación AP-9.
Migrant, geographer, public transport enthusiast. Research and teaching on urban mobilities, economies, and inequalities. Very sceptical of AI in HE. Titular Associate Professor at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social and @tsuoxford.bsky.social She/her
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Place - Heritage - Emotion - Urban History
Professor of Urban Studies at University of Glasgow
Arts & Humanities Research Council Place Programme Director
Views/posts/likes etc my own
Postdoc at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb | PhD, King’s College London | Primarily working on mind and metaphysics 💭
Cousas urbanas. Agora no Instituto de Estudos e Desenvolvemento de Galicia (IDEGA), na Universidade de Santiago. Grupo ANTE - Análise Territorial. Municipalista.
Research on global migration and mobility from the Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
- Urban Researcher -
Urban studies | participatory methods | nature-based solutions
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Infrastructural Geographies is a research group based at
@camunigeography, exploring material, social, & organizational structures of life.
Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
Chair of London's Fire Committee.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Cultural and Social Geographer, UoM. Interested in the lived experience of urban difference, inequalities, and social categories through the lenses of age, ageing, and the life course.
Freedom and unfreedom in work, leisure and citizenship. People who move & resistance to precarity. Policy & practice responses to 'modern slavery', refugee settlement and migrant youth inclusion. Sociology Senior Lecturer, Uni of Sheffield. 🇪🇭 Sahara Libre
PhD Candidate (Uban Studies and Planning) at University of Sheffield.
Housing Justice, Urban Political Ecology
Lecturer in Valuation and Governance, University of Sheffield
Early career editor @financeandspace.bsky.social
An urban technologist interested in how new technologies and infrastructures interact with urban life. Currently focused on how neurotechnologies are reshaping people relationships with computers, robots, animals and other humans.
Professor of Urban Studies, University of Sheffield
designer, researcher, lecturer (in no particular order)
@ Manchester School of Art
(graphic) design as research practice
Geographer at The Open University, UK
thinking materialities :: with :: care
(not necessarily in that order)
We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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Snr Research Fellow in Sustainability Policy.
The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
https://substack.com/@richsulley
Sustainability, bikes, birds, grumpiness
Research & Impact Associate at @sperishefuni.bsky.social
Researching labour, consumption, agribusiness, supply chains, governance, race, agency
Hosting SPERI Presents... New Thinking in Political Economy
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Festival of Debate returns from 22 April – 30 May 2025.
The largest grassroots politics festival in the UK. A @weareopus.bsky.social project.
#FofD
👉 festivalofdebate.com
Mayor of Greater Manchester
Labour Mayor of the Liverpool City Region.
Working to make Liverpool City Region the best place to grow up, grow old and grow a business.
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Human Geography, PhD candidate FU Berlin | Interested in mobilities, infrastructure, public space, and more-than-human relations. she/her.
www.aseelahaque.com
Professor of Social Policy
Academic Lead (Interim) Social Innovation Institute
University of Salford, UK
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Head of Innovation @ SYMCA | Founder of Data for Action + Sheffield Data for Good | Musician
A magazine for #Sheffield by Opus. Local news and culture. Online only (for now). Got a tip-off or want to write? Get in touch.
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Storyteller and civic journalist at @nowthenmag.bsky.social, based in sunny #Sheffield. Particularly interested in inequality, systems change, just transition, built environment.
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The University of Sheffield Player - the UK’s biggest research streaming platform enabling anyone, anywhere to discover and explore our pioneering research.
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Philosopher and social activist with interest in self-directed support, basic income, neighbourhood democracy, neighbourhood care and anything else that helps create a world where everyone matters (and chippy Northerner). https://citizen-network.org
Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Policy fellow @Y_PERN_ @SouthYorksMCA Data scientist / geospatial+economics / climate / political economy / "tepid centrist" / bit of sci-fi too danolner.net github.com/DanOlner
The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
Research Associate - Participatory Research Network
Project Coordinator - @coprofutures.bsky.social
Editor-at-large - E-IR
Global Dialogues Book Series Co-editor
IR, local peacebuilding, decoloniality, participatory research, South Africa
Thinking about justice through a food systems lens. Now based in western Scotland and researching seaweed sovereignty in Thailand and Indonesia.
Lecturer & Programme Director of Urban Design & Planning, University of Sheffield working in #urbandesign #childfriendlycities #urbanplay 🇮🇪 co-author of ‘Applied Urban Design: A Contextually Responsive Approach’, Routledge Books https://amzn.eu/d/i4dPGoH
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Sheffield Uni Management School. Asset managers, wealth chains, housing, uneven development.
Senior lecturer in humanities and architecture at the University of Sheffield, UK
(Radical) inclusivity, religion, space
Deep-time conservative: neolithic revolution must be rejected!!!
Maître de conférences en sciences de l'information et de la communication à l'Université Paris Est Créteil
Human. Geographer.
Lecturer @ University of Sheffield.
urban margins; labour migration; exclusionary states; postcolony
Cyclist, sewist and embroiderer, very bad knitter, great at lunching (and “dinnering”), enthusiastically early retired, independent consultant and former CEO of the Regional Studies Association :-)
We are a global research community and crowdsourcing platform (participedia.net) sharing knowledge and stories about participatory democracy and democratic innovations.
Researcher interested in participation, coproduction and trying to create a youth state. Also process and speculative practice, UCU.
Chief executive of Voluntary sector north west. Chair of Greater Manchester VCFSE Leaders Group, and VCFSE partner member on Cheshire and Merseyside ICB. Championing meaningful devolution and sector’s role in making it work.
Human geographer & political ecologist
Imperial College London @ic-cep.bsky.social
Editor Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social
Society needs to change - let's change it together.
Visit: https://societal.leeds.ac.uk/
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice & Crime, University of Suffolk. Interested in gender-based violence, epistemic justice, trauma and neurodiversity. She/her
Critical urban planning professor @ Tufts UEP. From Yorkshire UK, now living in Cambridge MA. Dad of English choccy Lab, Oso. Desperately seeking #justsustainabilities. Editor-in-Chief of Local Environment. Website: julianagyeman.com
Professor. Regional economic development; industrial restructuring; cities + tech; economic geography. Editor-in-Chief @regionalstudies.bsky.social. Also, dogs, birds, community. 🏙️
Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.
Northern correspondent, Financial Times
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Interested in research driving the sustainable competitiveness & wellbeing of places. General Director at Orkestra & faculty at Deusto Business School. Brit/SAfrican living in Donostia-San Sebastián. Cricket lover.
The City-Region Economic Development Institute at the University of Birmingham. Supporting inclusive economic growth in the West Midlands and the UK.
https://tinyurl.com/Find-out-more-about-City-REDI
UBDC is a national research centre and data service providing expertise, training, extensive data collections and data tools. Funded by ESRC and the University of Glasgow.
International multi-disciplinary journal publishing spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic-political change
Adorable little academic journal. We publish on geographical methods, spatial and urban analytics + innovative applications. Editor: @rsfrankl.bsky.social
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15384632
Professor of Urban Analytics @ CASA UCL -
@casauc.bsky.social. Lover of drum & bass, beer and tattoos. Drummer. Dad. Run a bit. Live in Brighton.
The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth provides evidence on #WhatWorks to drive local economic growth.
Partners: @cep-lse.bsky.social, @centreforcities.bsky.social
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Geography in the Public Interest: The GJ publishes original research in human and physical geography which engages with public issues and policy-relevant agendas.
Edited by Peter Hopkins, Paul Milbourne, Rebecca Collins & Trivik Verma
The Bennett Institute for Public Policy has expanded to become the Bennett School of Public Policy. Please follow us on our new handle: @BennettSchool.cam.ac.uk
We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
#industrialstrategy Birmingham Business School, UK in a Changing Europe Senior Fellow, Contemporary Social Science Editor in Chief, Editor Regional Studies, ‘activist academic’ (Gove’s 🪓man Max Caller), media commentator, Likes EVs. Baggies fan.
Research Associate, Uni of Manchester • UK Politics • English devo • spatial inequality • place-based policy • healthy urban development • critical realism
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/jack-newman
Economics, Cities, Policy.
Professor, London School of Economics. Research Director Centre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social. Director @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social. President @urbaneconomics.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
SPERI develops and promotes new analysis and understanding of the major economic and political challenges arising from contemporary capitalism.
Blog: https://speri-blog.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Podcast: https://sheffield.ac.uk/speri/podcast
The new BlueSky page for Regional Studies, Regional Science - @regstud.bsky.social 's open access journal on regional issues in geography, governance and policy as well as urbanization and economic development.
Philosophy prof at Douglas College. Mostly interested in reading stuff related to housing, cities, and justice.
Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Northumbria University (UK). Researches energy transitions, security and infrastructural politics. Specialises in natural gas and hydrogen. He/Him
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/f/peter-forman/
Queen’s University Belfast and University College Cork working on Children’s Rights, Child Participation (The Lundy Model) and Education.
Political Geography advances knowledge in all aspects of the geographical and spatial dimensions of politics and the political. Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Filippo Menga https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/political-geography
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PhD Student in Urban Studies and Planning
University of Sheffield
Researching Urban Environmentalisms and the Political Ecologies of Waste and Waste Labour in Indian Cities
Undisciplined scholar. Researching in and around the politics and philosophy of sustainability assessment. Some sort of Eco-Marxist. Perpetual Research Associate. Branch Secretary @SheffieldUCU.bsky.social
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Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie/ Society for Intercultural Philosophy/ Sociedad de Filosofía Intercultural/ 間文化哲学協会
