Friday 29th June 2017, 09:30 – 16:30 Seminar room G14, 9 Mappin Street, The University of Sheffield Musical groups and organisations shape and are shaped by their localities in a plurality of ways, reaching in and through communities to achieve tangible…
25th June 2018 (10:30am – 5:00pm) Pam Liversidge Building, Room PLB-D06 Workshop: Sustainable Energy Access in Mozambique and Wider Perspectives on Infrastructure/service Access in sub-Saharan Africa. This workshop represents one of the culminations of our British Academy project, led by…
Monday, June 11, 2018 – 12:00 to 13:30 Manchester Central Library Devolution promised to open up new opportunities for community engagement and empowerment, shifting power from Whitehall to the Townhall. One year on since the election of Andy Burnham as Mayor of Greater…
Location: Department of Geography, Ron Johnston Research Room (C Floor) Date: Tuesday 5th June 2018 Start Time: 1pm (Refreshments available from 12.45pm) All Welcome Professor Vanesa Castan Broto (University of Sheffield) Biography: Vanesa joined the Urban Institute in September 2017,…
Professor Jonathan Davies (De Montfort University) ‘Governing in and against austerity: reflections from an eight-case international study’ This event is jointly hosted by USP and The Urban Institute. For more information, see the Urban Studies and Planning website
2 day event: Tuesday 1st May (10.30-17.00), Wednesday 2nd May (10.20-16.00) The symposium will focus on the breadth of moral and ethical challenges raised by the research process, including activist research, research with vulnerable groups, research that engages with elite and…
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 – 16:00 to Friday, April 20, 2018 – 15:15 Oxford University The ESRC-funded Urban Transformations network will be hosting a conference in Oxford, UK between April 18 and 20, 2018. ‘The Good City: Urban Comparison, Transformation and Value’…
Urban services do not just mirror urban inequalities, but they are also key in reproducing social, political and spatial exclusions. Inequalities in service provision relate to questions of access, use, and control, which translate in the lack of adequate and…
Date: Tuesday 30 January 2018 Time: 1700-1900 ICOSS Hosted by The Sheffield Methods Institute and the Urban Institute at The University of Sheffield, this event celebrates the launch of two books by Professor Tim May and Professor Beth Perry: Reflexivity:…
Location: Africa Research Institute, 55 Tufton St, Westminster, London SW1P 3QL Africa’s urban transition is throwing up new challenges for international development assistance. Yet, at the same time, ‘non-traditional’ development partners are creating unprecedented opportunities for urban Africa. Older donors…