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New 拢3 million project will tackle inequality in Africa's clean energy transition

Congratulations to Vanesa Cast谩n Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism in the UI, on being selected as one of thirteen UK research projects that will address urgent global energy and climate challenges funded through the Ayrton Challenge Programme.

Zhengli Huang
Zhengli Huang

Dr Zhengli Huang joins the PLURALIZE team

We are happy to share that Zhengli has joined the PLURALIZE team as a Post Doctoral Research Associate. The project is led by Dr Linda Westman at the Urban Institute and explores the possibilities of bringing 鈥榡ust transitions鈥 research to China.
Getting our house in order

Getting our house in order: improving conditions for co-produced research in UK higher education

On 5th December 2024 the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry launched its Call for Evidence and Ideas during an online event. The Co-Pro Futures Inquiry is a two-year project (2024-2026) funded by Research England Participatory Research Funds.

91直播 Urbanism Winter Programme
91直播 Urbanism Winter Programme

91直播 Urbanism Winter Programme

We are pleased to announce details for the first 91直播 Urbanism Winter Programme - offering a mix of hybrid events taking place in Janaury 2025!
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'Decolonial鈥 city-making: art, music, fashion and aesthetics

Please join the Decolonial Cities Collective鈥檚 second Dialogue event, a virtual conversation between Peju Layiwola, Red City Solidarity Disco and AFRI - 17th July 2023, 3pm-4.30pm

UI Visiting Fellow - Simone Toji

New release: Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow the UI

Simone Toji is a Newton International Fellow at the University of 91直播鈥檚 Urban Institute. In this powerful new work, she reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself.
UI - Visiting Fellow, Papia Sengupta

UI welcomes Dr. Papia Sengupta, Visiting Fellow from Delhi, India

Papia is a political scientist and public policy expert who works on the intersectionality between gender, language, education, and urban living in culturally diverse societies.

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New ESRC funded project robotics as a new urban infrastructure

Congratulations to Dr Aidan While and Professor Simon Marvin on their new ESRC funded project 鈥淓xperimenting with robotics as a new urban infrastructure鈥.

Schools and communities

Workshop on Schools, Communities and Sustainability

The aim of the workshop is to understand how schools may play a stronger role in place-based environmental sustainability, neighbourhood regeneration, social and economic justice and community cohesion.