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Sheffield Urbanism Lecture Series 2026

The Sheffield Urbanism Lecture series is an initiative of the Urban Institute to stimulate dialogue, discussion and understanding of processes of urbanisation and urban life.

Tetiana Vodotyka

Urban Studies in Ukraine: Changes, Challenges, and Collaboration

In this IN-PERSON ONLY talk, Dr Tetiana Vodotyka traces the development of urban studies in Ukraine, examining both the history of the field and the intellectual and institutional roots of urban knowledge production.

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Theorising Migrant Lives: New Theoretical Framework in Territory, Politics, Governance

University of Sheffield PhD researcher Nikola Lero has published a new article in the prestigious Q1-ranked journal Territory, Politics, Governance.
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Call for Expressions of Interest: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships at the Urban Institute.

The Urban Institute (UI) at the University of Sheffield welcomes expressions of interest from outstanding early-career researchers wishing to apply for the 2027 round of the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Researcher Fellowships
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New paper on the value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities

Beth Perry, Vanesa Castán Broto and their colleagues Zarina Patel and Rita Sitas have just published a new open access paper in Sage Journals "Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities".
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Dialogues series - Automating Philosophy

Luciana is Professor of Literature at Duke University. She will present “Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines” (Critical Inquiry 48:2), part of her forthcoming book, Automating Philosophy
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'Decolonial’ city-making: art, music, fashion and aesthetics

Please join the Decolonial Cities Collective’s 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 Sheffield’s 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.
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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.