We are delighted to announce that Vanesa has been awarded a AXA Award for her contributions to Climate Change. Vanesa is one of only four outstanding scientists selected by the AXA Research Fund’s independent Scientific Board for her ground-breaking work in the field of climate change….
Vanesa Castán Broto and Linda Westman have recently published a briefing as part of The British Academy’s COP26 Briefings Series aimed at raising awareness of the importance of our disciplines in understanding the complex human and social dimensions to environmental challenges and their solutions. The briefing “From…
We are excited to announce that a new initiative between the Urban Institute and Consejo Latinamericano Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) has resulted in the launch of the New Urban Glossary Project in City Scapes Magazine. The Urban Popular Economy Collective is made up…
AbdouMaliq Simone and his colleague Elisa Sutanudjaja have just published a conversation with the editors of the Radical Housing Journal, Michele Lancione and Hung Ying Chen. In ‘Pluralizing lockdowns’: Grassroots responses to housing in Jakarta amid COVID-19’ they share their observation…
Annually, The University of Sheffield’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning arranges a series of Research Seminars where internationally renowned academics present their current or recently completed research and scholarly work. The research seminars are free and are open to University staff, students,…
The 2021 Regions in Recovery Festival (#RinR21) was hosted by the Regional Studies Association and ran between 2nd-18th June 2021. In over 2.5 weeks the Festival featured 458 papers and 124 sessions. The Festival ran as a multi-partner event and brought together…