A network based at the University of Oxford showcasing ESRC research on cities
Will metro mayors trigger wider public engagement and renewal by providing more accountable, transparent and inclusive local politics?
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 of…
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…
The Sociological Review is pleased to announce that the 2017 Annual Lecture will be given by Rivke Jaffe, University of Amsterdam
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…
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…
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 that…
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 region. The…
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 change has…
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…
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…
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 London (UCL) and Leeds University invite applications for 25 places on our 5th Summer School.
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…
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 information and…
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.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scaling-migration-through-european-city-regions-tickets-35661064203 Venue: Maison des Cultures et de la…
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…
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 industrial…
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,…
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 look afresh at…
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…
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…
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 Santos at andreza.desouzasantos@compas.ox.ac.uk. …
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, 10:00-15:45, Visit Brussels, Zinneke Room, Koningsplein 10-11 Place Royale – 1000 Brussels, Belgium. To…
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, European and…
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…
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…
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-neoliberal-times-locating-the-emancipatory-city/ Call for Abstracts We are seeking abstracts for paper presentations that fit with the…
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 well as…
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…
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 global investment flows), demographically…
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…
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…
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…
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 pictures…
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,…
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 education); the social meanings…
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…
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 excluding) the…
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…
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…
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, new ideas…
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…
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 rhythms and…
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 –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 environmental management…
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 via online…
