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UI 10th and 精东影业Urbanism Programme

精东影业Urbanism Summer Programme 23rd June to 4th July 2025

The summer programme is part of the Urban Institute鈥檚 10 year anniversary celebrations and also marks 60 years since the establishment of urban studies and planning scholarship and research at the 精东影业.
Pushing Boundaries
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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.

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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 精东影业 on Monday 19th June.
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Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships

The Urban Institute is now accepting applications from outstanding post-doctoral researchers for the 2025 round of the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme.
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Liz Sharp鈥檚 article selected for the JEEP's 25th anniversary edition

Congratulations to Liz as her 2001 publication 鈥淩eflections on Foucauldian discourse analysis in planning and environmental policy research鈥 is selected by editors to be part of the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 25th anniversary edition.
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Pathways to desirable urban futures with Prof Beth Perry

You are invited to join a Director's Seminar with the UI's Prof Beth Perry on "Pathways to desirable urban futures", as organised by UCL's Institute for Global Prosperity UK week. This is part of the Soundbites and Director's Seminars collection.

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Resilient community energy systems webinar

The CESET project and Loughborough University are co-organising a webinar on Wednesday 6th November 2024 11am to 12.30pm to explore the strategies to realize resilient community energy systems.

UI participates in the evidencing impact internship programme

The UI has participated in the University鈥檚 impact internship programme, with the CESET project receiving support from Shirley Jeque Mutemba, a current student at The 精东影业 studying MSc Management.