In Athens 26th Sept? Join us for a workshop on Best Practices for Addressing Homelessness Outreach Across Athens, Greece, Manchester U.K., & Santiago, Chile. English translation provided. The event is part of our UKRI Urban Crisis Project and co-sponsored with the Municipality of Athens.

Devolution without a a set formula for mayoral funding risks replicating or even deepening regional inequalities. It also perpetuates lack of transparency and risks breaking trust in democratic processes www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

'New Urban Frontiers' This @urbangeography.bsky.social special issue edited by me and @clairemercer.bsky.social has now been published online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4... A thread on the papers 👇

Devolution without a a set formula for mayoral funding risks replicating or even deepening regional inequalities. It also perpetuates lack of transparency and risks breaking trust in democratic processes www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Next time an undergraduate wants to do their dissertation on Manchester’s music scene, I’m going to show them this picture and advise they make a dissertation out of this.

The same fear, miscalculations, and hostility to free speech that informed coverage of Khalil are now resulting in corporate media censorship of its own on-air personalities.

See coverage of today's report from SHERU on how younger adult men, at risk of deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide, are a 'policy blindspot': www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/policy-...

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

The Department of Geography at The University of Manchester has a really full and exciting seminar series this autumn, if you're in town, do come join us! @cperguom.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social

In Athens 26th Sept? Join us for a workshop on Best Practices for Addressing Homelessness Outreach Across Athens, Greece, Manchester U.K., & Santiago, Chile. English translation provided. The event is part of our UKRI Urban Crisis Project and co-sponsored with the Municipality of Athens.

The Department of Geography at The University of Manchester has a really full and exciting seminar series this autumn, if you're in town, do come join us! @cperguom.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social

Wonderful to see this out! A great read that looks at policy mobilities that really gets to the political, power laden and spatial aspects of these processes.

When the U.S. news cycle is feeling heavy but you’re still trying to make sense of whats going on, this podcast is increasingly becoming a go-to. And they’re pretty funny too.

Pleased this new progress report on Mobilities & Crisis is out #OpenAccess. I suggest that mobility isn't just about movement but also navigating the temporalities of ongoing hardship, where crisis is part of the lived experience rather than an exceptional event. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We're excited to present the trailer for our new Global Corridor film by director Spyros Gerousis "Contained: A new Silk Road Story" Watch here: vimeo.com/1103055839

Wonderful to see this out! A great read that looks at policy mobilities that really gets to the political, power laden and spatial aspects of these processes.

When the U.S. news cycle is feeling heavy but you’re still trying to make sense of whats going on, this podcast is increasingly becoming a go-to. And they’re pretty funny too.

Many find comfort in thinking that Greece was (and remains) a peripheral outlier, with developments and reactions which are not applicable elsewhere. But its portrayal as an image of the future back in 2008 seems increasingly more apt. 1/

PhD student asked me the other day how I mange it all. My answer: I don’t. It’s about learning which balls are rubber and which are glass.

I got asked to write about the Gaza Riviera Plan + argue it should be understood within the settler colonial logic of elimination + made possible through urbicide and expulsion theconversation.com/the-gaza-riv...

‘The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair…

‘The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair…

Sometimes the science is easy. Battling the stigma and misinformation is the hardest challenge overcoming the opioid and drugs death crisis.

✈️ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography ✈️ 'Mobilities I: Crisis' by Cristina Temenos journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @ctemenos.bsky.social

Can the old-but-new NHS league tables revive the health service ? Or is it another case of policyfailing? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

www.change.org/p/stop-mass-... Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊

Sometimes the science is easy. Battling the stigma and misinformation is the hardest challenge overcoming the opioid and drugs death crisis.

This has nothing to do with fentanyl. This is about control of oil and demonizing Venezuelan immigrants.

we lost an absolutely wonderful person & powerful activist yesterday (The attached is an article I wrote about her a few years back)... my heart is just broken www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...

Going home in the rain, Manchester, painting by Lita Narayan. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

At RGS tomorrow? Come along to our session on Urban Politics, Crises and Conjunctures with @colinlorne.bsky.social @markushesse60.bsky.social @derek-ruez.bsky.social

Looking forward to discussing Yu-Shan Tseng's Liquid Democracy at today's #RGS. An important read for anyone interested in understanding contemporary urban democracy! @rgsibg.bsky.social

Call for sessions for the RC21 conference in Vienna, 20-22 July, 2026. Deadline for submissions: 6th of October 2025. rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-ses... #urban #sociology

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Looks like an interesting contribution to the literatures on urban politics and policy failures. Looking forward to reading.

Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...

Come work with me and my fantastic colleagues! The School of Geography, Development and Environment is hiring physical geographer at the assistant or associate level. Here are the details: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

How can we make cities healthier & fairer places to live, work and play? @ctemenos.bsky.social investigates the intersecting challenges that exacerbate #healthinequalities. research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/c... #healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall @uomseed.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

Neoliberalism was born in the Cold War and dominated the globe as an American project of the unipolar moment. If we are in a “post” period, multipolarity and the proliferation of war postures—in many cases now the political glue allowing the state to be brought in surely must be a part of the story.

Terrible that labour is following US foreign policy and cutting global health research. We weren’t awarded a grant in one of these schemes based solely on these cuts. Months of work wasted and our only consolation was that the grant hadn’t been awarded then suspended as has happened to some.

We're delighted that you're delighted!

Monthly reminder: Most fentanyl isn’t coming into the U.S. from Canada, and the majority of people smuggling it in are American citizens.

“While I applaud this significant investment in research and development focused on women’s health and long-standing gender inequity, some of the most critical interventions that would save women’s lives aren’t innovative or high-tech." Prevention initiatives could achieve a lot...

We are incorrigible

In a world of policy mobility and the constant drive for ‘innovation’ how do cities ensure that good policy is sustainable? What kinds of legislation and other governance tools can be put in place to ensure healthy, sustainable urban life?

I’ve seen several posts about Sesame Street and urbanism — esp its portrayal of density and diversity. There’s scholarship about this! ⬇️

I've started a Global Corridor newsletter on Substack providing a round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure. Looking forward to sharing more in autumn but for now enjoy the first one globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

Is it time for Drug Consumption Rooms for Sheffield? TLDR: Yes. DCRs in Sheffield, Manchester, Bristol, London and other UK cities would reduce drugs deaths and increase humane approaches to addictions treatment. #HarmReduction nowthenmagazine.com/articles/dru...

So much to unpack in this article, but interesting to note that Manchester leader is looking to Vancouver & Melbourne for inspiration. Since moving to MCR from Van 9 years ago, I’ve said it’s 10 years behind Van. 10 year behind the housing crisis, the overdose crisis, unaffordable cultural spaces 1/