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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.
Urban crisis in South African and Colombian cities

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.

PLURALIZE symbols
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!

Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram
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€.

Opportunity

Decolonial Cities: Research Associate Job Opportunity

UI Research Associate Dr Tanzil Shafique, Sheffield School of Architecture, is currently adverting an exciting job opportunity for a Research Associate position, working on a British Academy-funded project on Decolonial Cities.

Community is kindness

Co-producing critique and the impact of collective knowledge

Drawing on work carried out for the Realising Just Cities programme, UI Director Professor Beth Perry discusses how co-production enabled participants to collectively develop and refine a form of critique that can drive positive change.
SUI - Madeleine Pill, SUI Associate

Welcome to UI, Associate Madeleine Pill

We are excited to welcome Madeleine Pill from Urban Studies and Planning to join the UI team as an Associate.
The pirate function

The Pirate Function lecture now available on the UI YouTube channel

On 23 November 2022 Professor Kavita Philip, Presidentā€™s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures, University of British Colombia, delivered the second lecture in the Sheffield Urbanism series ā€˜Co-production and the Future of Urban Epistemicsā€™.
An Expressway in Eastern Africa - Photo by Joel Ongwech

Expressways to the Future? - Event Information

Date: Thursday, 19 January 2023
Time: 12:00-14:00 (EAT); 9:00-11:00 (GMT)
Location: British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA), Nairobi - Kenya