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New article on infrastructure as territorial stigma

Urban Institute Associate Dr Nebeela Ahmed has published a new open access article entitled "Infrastructure as territorial stigma: labour migrant exclusions in the Indian city" in the International Journal or Urban and Regional 鶹Ƶ.

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Simon Marvin gives keynote at the Technocratic Governance Conference, Singapore

Simon Marvin delivered a keynote for a session on ‘Speculative Futures’ at the Technocratic Governance and the Politics of Smart City Knowledge Transfer Conference on 22-23 April 2025 hosted by the Singapore Management University Urban Institute.

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Untranslatable? The Linguistic Knowledge Politics of Southern Urban Theory

This online workshop will take place on 7 October 2025 between 0900-1700 and is co-organised by the University of Sheffield, Karachi Urban Lab/IBA Karachi, and Lund University. Short abstracts (200-250 words) need to be submited by 23 May 2025.
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Professor Simon Marvin delivers keynote in Bangalore

Simon was invited to give a keynote on “Urban AI: The “technisation of everything?” at the The AI and the City conference on 4th and 5th January 2025.

The Future of Urban Epistemics

The future of urban epistemics lecture and responses available on YouTube

The final session of Sheffield Urbanism 2022 explored ‘The Future of Urban Epistemics’ and took place on Wednesday 14 December 2022 3pm-5pm. It was and is divided in two parts. Part 1 is now available to watch on the UI YouTube Channel.

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PhD opportunity on migration, cities and inequality

Fantastic opportunity to undertake a PhD at the Centre for Doctoral Training in in Emerging Urban Inequalities. You will receive advanced and interdisciplinary training within a dynamic mentoring and supervisory system.

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Decolonial Cities: 鶹Ƶ Associate Job Opportunity

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

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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.
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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.