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Artificial Intelligence and the City
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Professor Simon Marvin attends the AAG 2025 in Detroit

Simon attended The American Association of Geographers that brought together members of the global geographic community to learn from Detroit and its rich history of activism and creativity, radical cartography; and ecologies of land and water.

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Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

This two-day early career researcher focussed 'masterclass' workshop will take place in person 23-24 June 2025 in the ICOSS Conference Room, 219 Portobello, S1 4DP and will include different speakers with expertise around a series of themes.

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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.

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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 91直播.
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Shizhi Zhang presents at the RGS Conference 2024

UI Post Doctoral Researcher Dr Shizhi Zhang attended the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference in August 2024 in London, UK, where he presented on 鈥淓nvironmental Justice Theories in Traditional Chinese Political Philosophy鈥.

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Vanesa Cast谩n Broto and colleagues have published a new journal article on Climate Justice

Vanesa Cast谩n Broto and her colleagues have published an article entitled 鈥淓xamining Climate Justice in Urban Public Space Adaptation: A Thematic Synthesis of the Literature鈥 in the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, Vol.2 No.3.
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Professor Vanesa Cast谩n Broto will deliver a keynote at the first Austrian Chapter Conference

The conference will take place on 10th and 11th September 2024 at Vienna University of Economics and Business and Sigmund Freud University in Vienna. Vanesa鈥檚 keynote focusses on 鈥淒elivering Innovation for Urban Climate Action鈥.

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Congratulations to UI Associate Dr Jun Zhang on 3 new academic publications

Jun is a lecturer in Information Systems at the Information School and his research i interests align with the UI research agenda on the Urban Automation and Robotics theme.
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Congratulations to UI PhD student Catherine Malpass on her Visiting Fellowship

Earlier in the year Catherine visited the Reggio Emilia region of Italy to learn about innovative education initiatives which centre around children's agency and sensory experiences, with a significant focus on food.