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Richard Franey
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October 14, 2020

Life of a cookstove project

Professor Vanesa Castán Broto of the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield and local Sheffield film maker to Sean Lovell have produced a film called ‘Life of a cookstove: energy stories from Mozambique’. Funded by the Festival of the Mind 2020, the film explains how cooking happens in…
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Richard Franey
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October 13, 2020

Research Associate Position Available

The full-time 33 month Research Associate post is now 'live' on the University of Sheffield website https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CBW813/research-associate The closing date is 4th November 2020. SUI Research Associate
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Richard Franey
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Action Stations: Image courtesy of An Even Better Arbourthorne and Arbourthorne Community Primary School
Co-producing UrbanismsNews
September 29, 2020

New Project: An Even Better Arbourthorne

This project connects learning institutions across Sheffield to address socio-economic disadvantage in Arbourthorne, through sharing knowledge and expertise, fostering relationships and supporting community capacity-building. There is clear evidence of the link between educational outcomes and place-based disadvantage. A complex ecosystem…
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Richard Franey
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Co-producing UrbanismsEventNewsUrban Humans Event
June 8, 2020

The Urban Surrounds: from extinction to abolition.

 The first ‘Sheffield Urbanism’ Lecture Series The Urban Surrounds: From Extinction to Abolition” is a series which attempts to examine spaces and temporalities of urbanization from the viewpoints of abolitionist histories and sensibilities, and in ways that attempt to circumvent the…
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Richard Franey
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GeneralNews
May 13, 2020

New article on energy access published in Springer Nature Energy

We are delighted to announce that Vanesa Castán Broto and Joshua Kirshner’s timely article on the importance of energy access in maintaining health during pandemics is now freely available in  Nature Energy. Energy plays a central role in responding to emergencies…
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A McCloskey
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November 15, 2019

Dr Victoria Habermehl presented with Regional Studies Association Best Paper Award

Urban Institute Research Associate Dr Victoria Habermehl was presented with the 2019 Regional Studies Association (RSA) Best Paper Award for the journal Territory, Politics, Governance at a ceremony in London this week. The paper, Territories in contestation: relational power in…
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Richard Franey
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November 13, 2019

Contested Knowledges for Just Urban Futures

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 10:00 to 17:00 Channing Hall, 45 Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 2LG For urban scholars to be committed to more just urban futures is not new; yet the conditions and contexts from and in which academics engage are constantly changing. From means concerning…
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Richard Franey
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November 13, 2019

Inaugural Urban Institutes Global Network Workshop

The Urban Institute attended the inaugural meeting of the Global Urban Network hosted by the School of Cities at the University of Toronto in October 2019. The workshop was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada…
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EventLife At The MarginsNewsUrban Humans
November 4, 2019

Dwelling in Liminalities: Uncanny conversations

A seminar series by Michele Lancione and AbdouMaliq Simone Events take place on Google Meet - see the meeting links below.  Precis What is the meaning of dwelling in liminalities? In urban times when life becomes reconfigured by all sorts…
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Richard Franey
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September 30, 2019

New SDG Policy Brief Published

We've just published a Policy Brief on localising the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This stems from the work we did in partnership with UK Stakeholders for Sustainable Development, which involved convening a residential workshop for various UK and international…
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