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UI 10th and Sheffield Urbanism Programme

Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 23rd June to 4th July 2025

The summer programme is part of the Urban Instituteā€™s 10 year anniversary celebrations and also marks 60 years since the establishment of urban studies and planning scholarship and research at the University of Sheffield.
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Workshop on Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities

Urban Institute Associate Melanie Lombard recently ran a final project workshop in Cape Town, collaborating with South African and Colombian scholars and activists as part of her British Academy Urban crisis project.

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义 (Yi) means ā€œappropriatenessā€ or ā€œrighteousness,ā€ referring to what is morally right and fitting. It conveys the virtue of doing what is just, acting with integrity, and upholding moral principles, regardless of personal gain.

PLURALIZE website launch

As part of the Urban Institute's 10th Anniversary Celebrations and the Sheffield Urbanism summer programme, the PLURALIZE project is launching its new project website!

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Steve Rotheram and Andy Burnham

Powering the North podcast ā€˜liveā€™

Listen now to the Urban Radarā€™s first stand-alone feature podcast ā€œPowering the North: A conversation with Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheramā€.

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Book launch of Simone Tojiā€™s new book ā€œThe Immensity of Being Singular"

Invitation to attend the launch of Dr Simone Tojiā€™s new open access book ā€œThe Immensity of Being Singular: Approaching Migrant Lives through Resonanceā€. Simone is a Newton International Fellow from SĆ£o Paulo, Brazil, currently visiting at the UI.

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New researcher joins the PLURALIZE team!

A huge warm welcome to Dr Shizhi Zhang who has joined the 5-year ERC funded project PLURALIZE in 2023 as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate.

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Celebration of the Urban Institute's 3rd year of its Sheffield School

The Sheffield School was launched in September 2020. It was conceived as a way to systematically explore the critical issues embodied by the Urban Instituteā€™s Signature Program, The Politics of Inhabitation and the Urban Technical.
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Registration open for hybrid seminar on "Rethinking urban resistance and democracy"

Dr Papia Sengupta- Urban Institute Visiting Fellow, Delhi, India - announces upcoming seminar "Rethinking urban resistance and democracy: Towards building 'differential solidarities'" as part of her British Academy Visiting Fellowship 2023

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UI launches Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023

The Urban Institute is excited to announce the Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2023 on "Robotic restructuring: Cities, climate and ecology".