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UI 10th and Sheffield Urbanism Programme

Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme 23rd June to 4th July 2025

The summer programme is part of the Urban Institute’s 10 year anniversary celebrations and also marks 60 years since the establishment of urban studies and planning scholarship and research at the University of Sheffield.
Pushing Boundaries
Image credit:Bryony Vince-Myers

Pushing Boundaries

On 10 June 2025 Professor Beth Perry participated in the Pushing Boundaries Conference hosted by the Young Foundation with UKRI at The British Library.

Lisbon
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Re-framing a semi-periphery: The making of Lisbon as a global real estate market

Urban Institute Research Associate Rafaella Lima has published a new open access journal article on the Lisbon global real estate market for Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.

REBEL
REBEL

REBEL! Recognising learning and skills in the community

How can universities help volunteers in the community to identify and recognise their learning and skills in social action projects? This was the focus of our community workshop held at the University of Sheffield on Monday 19th June.
Polly Clifton

Welcome Polly Clifton as Podcast Assistant for Urban Radar

The Urban Institute welcomes Polly as a new student assistant for the Urban Radar podcast where she will book booking facilities, support content development, promote and undertake post-production editing.

Callum Ward

Callum Ward joins as an Urban Institute Associate

The UI welcomes Callum Ward, Lecturer in Valuation and Governance in the Management School, as an Associate, to foster discussions on urban governance and financialisation at Sheffield.
Dhaka Bangladesh

Call for Contributions: Rethinking Urban Nature from the South

As part of Tanzil Shafique's ongoing research project ReWET (www.rewet.info) this hybrid symposium will take place on Tuesday 15th April 2025 1200-1630 in the Arts Tower, University of Sheffield.

Rafaella Lima

Welcome UI Associate Rafaella Lima

Rafaella is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Management School where she is investigating how asset management firms extract and protect wealth through real estate and shape urban development across uneven geographies.
Bryony Vince-Meyers

UI welcomes Dr Bryony Vince-Myers as Project Coordinator

Bryony joined the Co-Pro Futures Inquiry as our Project Coordinator in January 2025. She will be working with us until July 2025 to oversee key aspects of the Inquiry's next stage, including managing our Call for Evidence.