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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.

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Professor Simon Marvin attends the AAG 2025 in Detroit

Simon attended The American Association of Geographers that brought together members of the global geographic community to learn from Detroit and its rich history of activism and creativity, radical cartography; and ecologies of land and water.

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UI welcomes new associate Dr Nabeela Ahmed

We are delighted to announce that Nabeela, a feminist critical geographer and Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, will be joining the UI team!

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New report published on low-use (empty!) homes across the UK

Low-use homes in rural and coastal areas of the UK: Geography, impact and responses is co-written by Rowland Atkinson and Rafaella Lima (University of Sheffield), Jonathan Bourne (University College London) and Chris Bailey (Action on Empty Homes).
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Development beyond 2030: more collaboration, less competition?

UI Associates Ankit Kumar and Miguel Kanai and colleagues have recently published and open access article in the journal of International Development Review as part of the Geography research group on Critical Sustainable Development Challenges.

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Sheffield Urbanism PhD Conference: Emerging Urban Inequalities

On 6th and 7th June 2024 the Urban Institute and Department of Urban Studies and Planning with the Doctoral Training Centre for Emerging Urban Inequalities are convening a PhD conference for Sheffield students in the Wave.

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The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation - ONLINE PARTICIPATION

Applications now welcome to participate ONLINE in this 2 day workshop on 23-24 May 2024 organised jointly by the Urban Institute (University of Sheffield) and Beyond Inhabitation Lab (Polytechnic University of Turin. Agenda below.