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. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

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

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. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

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 sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

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) sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

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! sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

New book from Vanesa Castán Broto + collaborators Co-production of Knowledge in Action Emancipatory strategies for urban equality (OPEN ACCESS with UCL Press) uclpress.co.uk/book/co-prod...

"The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion" Jon Silver in the Conversation theconversation.com/the-gaza-riv...

New Paper “No More Proletariat, or Unhappy People, or Oppressed”: Living Besides and the Collective Sensibilities of “Urban Popular Territories” Open Access AbdouMaliq Simone academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

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 sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit... #UrbanRiches

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) sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

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. Subscribe to Jon Silver's new Substack newsletter here ⏬ globalcorridor.substack.com

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. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

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. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

URBAN POLITICS OF TRUTH AND WEALTH - New Urban Radar podcast available now... 🙊 💰 In this month's episode Tom and Beth are joined by Dr Katie Pruszynski and Rowland Atkinson to examine the impacts of political and wealth elites on urban life. open.spotify.com/episode/2GhJ...

Elites in cities, elite cities: Processes of (dis)affiliation, (dis)connection and distinction sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

New paper from the GlobalCORRIDOR project based here in Sheffield is out in the latest edition of Urban Studies journal "The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Interview with Dr. Juan Miguel Kanai (University of Sheffield) at the Institute for Urban Research, Malmo as part of the Nordic Network of Global South Urbanisms, moderated by Yénika Castillo Muñoz www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5a3...

New film on Renewable Energy Short Course for Female Technicians & Engineers This short film provides an overview of renewable energy training delivered at Mzuzu University in Malawi for two cohorts of female technicians and engineers. sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

CYBORG RIGHTS & THE CITY: New UrbanRadar podcast now available A conversation on tech and urbanism with Simon Marvin and Allan McCay Available on open.spotify.com/episode/297T... - or wherever you get your podcasts!

Workshop on Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Jonathan Silver interviews author and organizer Isaac Rose about his book on housing financialization in Manchester, The Rentier City. They discuss the motivations for writing the book, how theory informs practice, and the influences that guided Rose. metropolitics.org/Unleashing-F...

UI welcomes Dr Sangita Thebe Limbu as Research Associate www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Call for Papers: Special issue of Environment and Urbanization Colleagues are welcome to submit EoIs for this special issue edited by UI Associate Melanie Lombard and Martina Manara (UCL) on community-led responses to urban/ peri-urban land conflict www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

#UrbanRadar 6 has landed! We're joined by Jenny Preece to dive into building safety in the context of #Grenfell fire anniversary, Sarah J Cooper to consider #trans rights and urban space. Plus, as usual, loads of other issues on our radar this month: open.spotify.com/episode/3I5P...

🌍 The Sheffield Urbanism Showcase 🗓️ Tuesday, 1st July 🕰️ 9:00am to 4:30pm A showcase to celebrate and profile just some of the incredible urban research we undertake across disciplines in the Faculty of Social Sciences here at Sheffield. www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

The Urban Institute is pleased to launch the website of the PLURALIZE project! PLURALIZE is a 5-year research project funded by the (EPSRC) that aims to identify principles + practices of just transitions that can be applied in China led by Linda Westman www.pluralize.co.uk/

Raising awareness of water scarcity and innovative community management solutions in Nairobi www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Listen now to #Urbanradar's first stand-alone feature! 📢 Powering the North: A conversation with Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram, asking is Britain wired for inequality between regions? lnkd.in/eCuCcXhZ

New Paper BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION) Abdoumaliq Simone In IJURR onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New Paper Climate‐controlled conservation: Remaking ‘the botanical metropolis of the world’ Simon Marvin and Jonathan Rutherford in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

EVENT: Urban Research Labs in Times of Conflict and Post-Truth Mona Fawaz (Beirut Urban Lab) + Nausheen Anwar (Karachi Urban Lab) in conversation on the challenges of doing urban research in times of conflict and post-truth July 1st (in-person only) www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

New Paper "A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations" in Dialogues in Human Geography Simone Vegliò, Jonathan Silver, Andrea Pollio, Francesca Governa, and Elia Apostolopoulou journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

EVENT: Global CEO peer groups and the capitalist class in Johannesburg, London and Mumbai Katie Higgins 18th June (in person and online as part of our Urban Riches theme Info Here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

🚨Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 23rd June to 4th July 2025🚨 The summer programme is part of the Urban Institute’s 10 year anniversary celebrations and also marks 60 years since the est of urban studies and planning scholarship and research www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Power and the Pope: New episode of Urban Radar podcast www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Join Prof Beth Perry in conversation with Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram, as they outline how we can spread political and economic power throughout the UK and push forward for a fairer future. Mon 19 May 2025 festivalofdebate.com/2025/head-no...

Urban Radar 🎙️ | 🌟 Episode 4 | Bats 🦇 , Buildings 🏢 and Big Ideas 💡 Join the discussion with Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry for the Sheffield Urbanism podcast Here's the link to tune in to the full episode : lnkd.in/enVHKU6g

Sharing Lessons from Dhaka’s Wetlands – ReWET ReVIEW 2024–25 Urban Institute Associate Tanzil Shafique is excited to share the first edition of the ReWET ReVIEW a reflection on a year of collective learning from learning and action from the The ReWET Consortium www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Call for Papers Untranslatable? The Linguistic Knowledge Politics of Southern Urban Theory Online workshop will take place on 7 October 2025 co-organised by the University of Sheffield, Karachi Urban Lab/IBA Karachi, and Lund University. www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Our team have produced a new report as part of the Global Corridor project... “I was evicted and left homeless” - Exploring social and environmental (in)justice along the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project Covered this morning by the Guardian.. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Delighted to announce that #UrbanRadar Episode 3 is now out! Jam packed with urban analysis of current and recent events. This month’s special feature focuses on the rise of #authoritarianism and its urban consequences Listen here >> lnkd.in/ehaewPvd

Call for Contributions: Rethinking Urban Nature from the South As part of Tanzil Shafique's ongoing research project ReWET (www.rewet.info) this hybrid symposium will take place on Tuesday 15th April 2025 www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Welcome UI Associate Rafaella Lima Rafaella is a Leverhulme ECR Fellow in the Management School where she is investigating how asset management firms extract and protect wealth through real estate and shape urban development across uneven geographies. www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

New Paper from our team "A culture-led approach to understanding energy transitions in China: The correlative epistemology", published in the 'Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.' By Ping Huang, Linda Westman + Vanesa Castan Broto rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Episode 2 of #UrbanRadar with Beth and Tom is now live, on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts: lnkd.in/g-cxJ-B4 As the UK government pins hopes on enabling greater private sector investment to boost economic growth, can the 'Manchester model' deliver the expected outcomes?

Happening today, Professor AbdouMaliq Simone's workshop on 'Ecologies of Black Living' CIFAR at the British Academy, London

An exciting book launch this week in Sheffield from our visiting fellow Sam Burgum 'Squatting London - the Politics of Property' published by @PlutoPress Online and in person on Thursday, 12.30-2pm More details here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...