Coming up in our departmental seminar series, Urban Futures staff member Nathaniel will be speaking on ‘Kings Hill, Dominica: Framing Ideas of Home, Heritage and Belonging -

Join us on 13 November to hear Joanna Kusiak discuss her new The Nine Dots Prize winning book, Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future 🌟📚 David Madden @AnnaMinton Hyun Bang Shin 신현방 LSE Sociology Cambridge University Press zurl.co/Hvb2

🚨🧵With Mel Nowicki & Fraser William Curry I have been uncovering the scandal that are local authority rules on housing allocation which are banning thousands of indebted homeless families in England from social housing. Thanks Vicky Spratt for exposure: inews.co.uk/news/housing/c…

New OA paper Urban Geography on 'embodied counter-mapping' approach to gendered urban violence & resistance based on body-territory & participatory territorial mapping in Mare, Rio de Janeiro. King's Geography Redes da Maré UFRJ Moniza Rizzini shorturl.at/woPOv

So excited to share the first paper from my PhD! This new #openaccess paper in Progress in Environmental Geography examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…

Important new paper by elara k shurety on housing and mould in Progress in Environmental Geography. Please share! Elara is a King's College London LISS-DTP doctoral researcher with me and Phil Hubbard in Geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…

I'll be speaking with Mel Nowicki at this new domestic abuse community of practice on Wednesday- reporting on our Debt Trap Nation findings in support of changes in social housing allocation for domestic abuse survivors nationally

2025 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: USF International Fellowships grant funding! 📢 Deadline: 16/07/25. This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: ow.ly/AYfn50R8oou

📢Launching our new research project "Sensory Lives: Neurodiverse Children and Families in Temporary Accommodation" supported by The Leverhulme Trust at KCL Urban Futures, King's College London with Rosalie Warnock Check out our website with accessibility plug-in: sensorylivesproject.org

Urban Futures members have a new research study 🚀 Check it out!

Urban Radar 🎙️ | 🌟 Episode 4 | Bats 🦇 , Buildings 🏢 and Big Ideas 💡 Join the discussion with Tom Goodfellow and Beth Perry for the Sheffield Urbanism podcast Here's the link to tune in to the full episode : lnkd.in/enVHKU6g

Beautiful day in London - visited The Centre for Social Justice in Smith Square to confirm the launch details for our forthcoming Agenda Publishing book. Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State Pre-order is now live: waterstones.com/book/debt-trap…

Urban Futures members launch new UK-wide call for evidence with Households in Temporary Accommodation APPG on the impact that Temporary Accommodation has on neurodivergent children. Please share! sensorylivesproject.org/national-call-…

I was born into a city where housing was affordable. But I've grown up into one where it was not. What has gone wrong in London over the last 35 years? And where is it going in the future? My new book, Homesick, tells that story. Out Sept 25 amazon.co.uk/Homesick-How-H…

Urban Futures research in the news:

How do we support each other in academic writing? In the Urban Futures Research Group, we have ‘writing surgeries' where we discuss a draft piece of work from one of our PhD or staff members. They are so productive, but also lovely to come together and chat ideas!

It's away day season! Cannot think of anything more fitting than staff from our Urban Futures Research Group exploring the city together - we spent the afternoon exploring the Serpentine galleries & hanging out talking ideas in its 2025 pavilion

Zheng Wang, new Urban Futures Lead, will be speaking at Royal Town Planning Institute's online webinar on the role of urban planning in tackling climate and biodiversity challenges alongside this Thursday, 12th June at 12:00 noon. rtpi.org.uk/events

Our ‘No Space Like Home?’ study has its first ever newsletter out. Take a look! Supported by Economic and Social Research Council and led by Phil Hubbard nospacelikehome.study/news

📣 Call for Papers: Debt Urbanism & the Housing Question ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors Sarah Klosterkamp & Mel Nowicki 🗓️ Abstract deadline: 22 August 25 🏹 Spread the word!