List of Events

Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN)

Portfolio 24 Jun 2020

The Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Third Biennial Conference will be held in Brighton, United Kingdom on 24-26 June 2020 on the theme of Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration. Submission deadline: All proposals must be submitted v…

ISULabaNtu end of project event

31 Jan 2020

The ISULabaNtu project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the National Research Foundation (South Africa) under the Newton Fund Urban Transformations Programme. The project explores community-led upgrading processes in env…

Wales Housing Research Conference 2020

Portfolio 9 Jan 2020

Co-hosted by the WISERD Wales Housing Research Network, the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Shelter Cymru and Welsh Government. This conference is sponsored by Pobl. About the conference Housing and homelessness are high on the politica…

Borderland Urbanism: Infrastructure for Fragmented Cities

Portfolio 26 Nov 2019

Urban transformations in many countries of the Global South produce fragmented cities. These are characterised by the coexistence of fortified enclaves on the one hand, and informal settlements on the other. Everyday life is often radically different…

The politics of memory: Urban cultural heritage in Brazil

UT 19 Nov 2019

Book launch: The Politics of Memory in Brazil Venue: Latin American Centre Author: Andreza de Souza Santos in conversation with Sandra Jovchelovitch (LSE) and Katerina Chatzikidi (Graduate Institute Geneva) Chair: Elizabeth Ewart, Head of School of A…

The Northern Housing Summit 2019

5 Nov 2019

This year the Northern Housing Consortium launched #OurNorth, a celebration of the role local authorities and housing associations play in creating the communities in which 15 million people live. But #OurNorth is not just about highlighting the grea…

2019 Realising Just Cities Conference: Lessons, Impacts and Outcomes

Other Urban 15 Oct 2019

The rapidly growing number of people moving into cities all over the world presents a challenge of unprecedented size. It is crucial to find ways to make urbanisation a source for wealth, health and sustainability – which is shared. Mistra Urban Fu…

ISA-RC21 Conference: In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures

Other Urban 18 Sep 2019

Across the globe, cities surpass their own contours. Urban cores expand and intensify in size and height, and we see connectivities, nodes and enclaves involving new technologies, information flows, migrations, time/space compressions and everyday rh…

Making Cities Work

Portfolio 6 Sep 2019

Cities of Making has partnered with Cosmopolis and Building Brussels to host ‘Making Cities Work’, a series of events, from 6-11 September 2019, aimed at contributing to new ways of thinking about the urban economy. How can alliances of policy ma…

Creating a Movement for Change: Transforming Construction Network Plus

Other Urban 18 Jul 2019

The Transforming Construction Network Plus (N+) is hosting its 2019 Annual Conference, ‘Creating a Movement for Change’, on Thursday 19 September at the Royal Society in London. This one-day conference seeks to stimulate new perspectives…

Short-Term Lets: Evidence and Experiences from Scotland, Ireland and Australia

Portfolio 17 Jul 2019

The rapid growth of the collaborative economy has connected individuals and communities via online platforms and enabled the sharing or provision of goods and services, assets and resources without the need for ownership. These developments have enab…

An Evening with Jam and Justice

Portfolio 3 Jul 2019

The Jam & Justice Action Research Collective are getting to ready to share findings and wider lessons, and celebrate the outcomes of our projects in Greater Manchester. Places are limited, so register now to reserve a place here. Doors open 5:30p…

Urban Informality: An International Workshop

UT 27 Jun 2019

This workshop will seek to trace the possible relationships between dynamics of informality that cut across governance, work and ordinary life. It will explore relations between longstanding community practices of survival beyond (but without excludi…

Housing for asylum seekers and refugees in Europe

Portfolio 26 Jun 2019

How can new arrivals contribute to the revival and regeneration of urban areas, thus making them more inclusive, vibrant and accessible? A part of Refugee Festival Scotland, a team from the Governance and the Local Integration of Migrants and Europe�…

Urbanisation, Infrastructures and Everyday Life in East Asia

Portfolio 1 May 2019

University of Manchester, 1-3 May 2019. The conference invites contributions concerned with the design, planning, implementation, maintenance and use of urban infrastructures (including, but not limited to, sanitation, transportation, health care and…

EU Research and Innovation for Cities of the Future

Other Urban 21 Mar 2019

This joint event will show how EU funded Research and Innovation actions are driving Sustainable Urban Development to address major urban challenges. The event aims to: Inform Members of the European Parliament, City Leaders, policy makers, academia,…

Security on the Move: Exhibition and Panel Discussion

14 Mar 2019

Summary/description Large scale migration and forced displacement are among the most dramatic consequences of war and political instability. In the research project ‘Security on the Move’, forty people who have been displaced to cities took pictu…

The Economic Implications of Brexit on European Regions

Portfolio 22 Feb 2019

Brussels: 22nd February 2019, 09.30 – 17:00 (registration begins at 9h) City-REDI, supported by ESRC and The UK in a Changing EU, are hosting a Brexit Workshop at the European Committee of the Regions. The workshop aims to bring together political …

Academy of Science of South Africa / British Academy ‘Urban Lives’ Workshop

Other Urban 21 Feb 2019

Gauteng, South Africa, 21-23 February 2019 Introduction The Academy of Science of South Africa and the British Academy are inviting applications from early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to attend a research collaboration wo…

Post-Doc Early Career Workshop: Methodological Issues and Emotional Labour in Co-Produced Research

UT 4 Dec 2018

This workshop, taking place over one and a half days, is for post-doctoral early career researchers in universities who engage in co-produced research with varying external partners and pursue different topics. The focus is upon learning from practic…

New Horizons for Cities and Regions in a Changing World

Other Urban 15 Nov 2018

Abstract submission deadline has been extended: 3rd September 2018 We are living through a period of profound change. Fundamental shifts occurring economically (increasing leadership in Asia, new opportunities in Africa, raising connectivity through…

City Futures and contemporary urban research

UT 11 Jul 2018

Beijing 11-12 July 2018 This workshop will bring together senior researchers from the UK and China whose work focuses on thinking about city futures. The globe is increasingly urban. The future of China and the future of most of the world is urban. S…

Urban Transformation and ‘New Style’ Urbanisation in China

Portfolio 9 Jul 2018

9 – 12 July 2018, University of Glasgow The 2018 International Conference on Urban Development will bring together researchers from urban studies, geography, sociology, political science, urban planning, urban management and public policy as we…

Creating Diverse Coalitions for Equality in Neoliberal Times : Locating the Emancipatory City

Portfolio 4 Jul 2018

Panel: Professor Chrissie Rogers (Bradford), Francis Ryan (The Guardian), Professor Kathleen Richardson (DMU) and Kitt Bolton (DPAC) – other speakers tba https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/creating-diverse-coalitions-for-equality-in-ne…

50 eyes on a scene

Other Urban 28 Jun 2018

St John’s College, Oxford, OX1 3JP Shannon Mattern from the New School (NYC) will be delivering an exciting talk, titled Fifty Eyes on a Scene. This talk replays a single urban scene from the perspective of several sets of machinic and creature…

Cities and mental health: Interdisciplinary experiments

Other Urban 12 Jun 2018

During the last 15 years, a flowering literature has investigated in different disciplines across the social and the life sciences the relations between urban living and mental health. One of the important research foci has been the troubling correla…

The Good City: Urban Transformation, Comparison and Value

UT 18 Apr 2018

From 18-20 April, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Urban Transformations (UT) network hosted an international conference in Oxford offering a gathering space for researchers focusing on issues of comparative urbanism across Global, Eur…

Rethinking the Urban Commons in European City-Regions

UT 12 Feb 2018

Bridging European Urban Transformations Workshop Series in Brussels 2016-2018 Co-organised in partnership by the University of Oxford – Urban Transformations and VUB – Brussels Centre for Urban Studies Monday 12 February 2018, 10:00-15:…

Cities in transition: unequal innovation in African cities

UT 31 Jan 2018

Urban Transformations Workshop Cape Town, 31st January 2018 Download the full programme here. An edited volume of contributions, based on the presentations around the event, is forthcoming: for more information, please contact Andreza de Souza Sant…

Brutalist Architecture and Creative Activism

Other Urban 23 Jan 2018

School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY 23 January 2018, 16.00 – 17.30 Christoph Lindner is Professor and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Oregon and Honorary Research Professor in Cu…

Research and Metropolitan Health in Unequal Cities

UT 22 Nov 2017

Rio de Janeiro 22-24 Nov 2017 Key theme: urban health and wellbeing Sub-themes: Public health, city life, re-thinking urban wellbeing The full programme can be downloaded here. An edited volume of contributions, based on the presentations around the…

Birmingham Policy Lab: Financing Local Public Services

Other Urban 25 Oct 2017

The University of Birmingham and City-REDI is hosting a Birmingham Policy Lab workshop to explore the theme of the financing local public services. As demands on public services grow and austerity looks set to continue, the need to reform and …

Festival of the Future City

Portfolio 18 Oct 2017

The second Festival of the Future City will take place 18-20 October 2017. Set over three days the festival – which aims to be the largest public debate about the future of cities – brings together politicians, writers, artists, scientists, chan…

UT Panel at European Week of Regions and Cities

UT 11 Oct 2017

Urban Transformations (UT) have become increasingly interested in the institutional form that urban experimentation might take, the role of research in this process and how democratic and citizenship concerns may be balanced with policy and industria…

European Week of Regions and Cities

Other Urban 9 Oct 2017

The European Week of Regions and Cities is hosting its annual series of events, workshops and knowledge sharing sessions in Brussels between 9 and 12 October. Bringing together a wide variety of policy makers, practitioners and other stakeholders, th…

Scaling Migration Through the European City-Regions

UT 11 Sep 2017

Co-organised in partnership by the University of Oxford – Urban Transformations (www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk) and VUB – Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (www.urbanstudies.brussels) To register at the event, please visit https://www.eventbr…

Building health into developments – How planning and public health can build a healthier future

Portfolio 5 Sep 2017

Organised and hosted by PHE SW in partnership with South West Public Health Network, with coordination from the ESRC-funded project Reuniting Planning and Health: Tackling the Implementation Gaps in Evidence, Governance and Knowledge. For additional…

Urban transformation – roundtable discussion (RGS-IBG Annual Conference)

Portfolio 30 Aug 2017

This seminar is part of the 2017 RGS-IBG annual conference, running from 30 August to 1 September 2017, and will take place on 30 August. More information on the seminar is available here. A roundtable discussion on the theme of nature of urban trans…

5th RC21-IJURR-FURS Summer School in Comparative Urban Studies

Other Urban 30 Aug 2017

The Research Committee 21 (RC21) of the International Sociology Association, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR), the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS) in collaboration with scholars from University College…

Globalisation in Crisis? The Urban and Regional Challenges of the Great Instability

UT 13 Jul 2017

The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society will be running its fourth conference, ‘Globalisation in Crisis? The Urban and Regional Challenges of the Great Instability’ on 13-14 July 2017. As well as being a chance to hear about the lat…

Research workshop: the economic evolution of Bristol

Portfolio 21 Jun 2017

The City Evolutions research has selected five different cities for an in-depth exploration of the role of institutional arrangements and policy initiatives in dealing with economic change over the past 5 decades, including Bristol. The workshop will…

Research workshop: the economic evolution of Birmingham

Portfolio 13 Jun 2017

The City Evolutions research has selected five different cities for an in-depth exploration of the role of institutional arrangements and policy initiatives in dealing with economic change over the past 5 decades, including Birmingham. Economic chan…

Beyond Smart & Data-Driven City-Regions? Rethinking Stakeholder-Helixes Strategies

UT 6 Jun 2017

Smart City-Regions and Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) are now driving significant policy development in city regions in Europe. However, the ‘smartness’ in these strategies is dominated by a technological hegemonic understanding of the city…

The Great Regional Awakening: New Directions

Other Urban 4 Jun 2017

A ‘Great Regional Awakening’ is underway. There is a growing realisation that regional inequalities have both contributed to, and amplified, the ‘Great Recession’ that shook advanced and emerging economies alike. It is also becoming apparent …

Shaping Data Standards for Future Cities

Portfolio 19 May 2017

Friday 19th May 2017, 09:30 – 16:00 BST Still Room, IET Glasgow: Teacher Building, 14 Saint Enoch Square, Glasgow, G1 4DB The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) and SASNet, in collaboration with BSI, invite you to this free event on ‘Shaping Data Stand…

Oxford Spring School UK City Futures

UT 4 May 2017

The “cities agenda” in the UK has undergone major changes of late. The new government’s priorities for restructuring the British model of growth will foreground the roles of cities in shaping the UK’s economic future in the Industrial Strateg…

Cities and the Political Imagination

Other Urban 28 Apr 2017

The Sociological Review is pleased to announce that the 2017 Annual Lecture will be given by Rivke Jaffe, University of Amsterdam

New London Vernacular/Urban Qualities

Portfolio 20 Apr 2017

Public Lecture and workshop Wednesday 26 April 2017 G12 – 22 Gordon Street One of the challenges of London’s real-estate led urban development model is to build new urban places with good qualities within the current financial and institu…

Urban Living Labs for public space – a new generation of planning?

UT 10 Apr 2017

While participatory planning is widely hailed as a prerequisite for well-managed urban development and sustainability, this ideal can be difficult to implement in practice, due to the complexity of interactions between stakeholders and the difficulty…

Metro Mayors: next steps for devolution in England

Other Urban 30 Mar 2017

Will metro mayors trigger wider public engagement and renewal by providing more accountable, transparent and inclusive local politics?