New paper with Tullia Jack & Manisha Anantharaman out in Social & Cultural Geography yesterday! In it we explore the ways in which Mysoreans take access to water for granted and position cleanliness as an unquestionably positive sign of good citizenship. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'Rethinking Urban Density' collection of commentaries now published in Urban Geography, edited by Hung-Ying Chen│陳虹穎 Romit Chowdhury Priyam Tripathy & myself. Introduction here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 1/2

New paper from UoM Society and Environment Research Group (SERG) researchers - a critical appraisal of nature-based solutions for responding to climate change.

New paper from UoM Society and Environment Research Group (SERG) researcher Nate Millington: A call to re-conceptualise the concept of urban water security, drawing from research and engagement with the politics of water and urbanisation in São Paulo.

1/ 🚨 Taking a break from my vacation to say that my latest paper is out now in WIREs climate change!! 🚨 With the inimitable @drrobbellamy and one of my personal academic heroes, Noel Castree. you can read it here (or DM me to ask for a PDF 🙃): doi.org/10.1002/wcc.729

The DfT have released their plan for #decarbonising transport. In our new blog, Drs Cristina Temenos & Joe Blakey respond to the strategy, outlining the risks of techno-optimism & the opportunities in the #COVID recovery. Read it here; blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2021/08/…

We have a great group of sessions at Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) on Unfinished Infrastructures this week, organized by myself with Purva Dewoolkar & Cecilia Alda-Vidal. Join us if you're around. Virtual stages 13, 12, and 24 - T/W/Th at 15:00 BST.

Still time to apply! x.com/DrRobBellamy/s…

🎉Huge congratulations to Professor Stefan Bouzarovski, who has been shortlisted for Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for his work on the European Energy Poverty Observatory Times Higher Education #THEAwards mui.manchester.ac.uk/cure/research/…

It was a pleasure to speak with the students today at @CedarMountHigh as a part of the #BlackHistoryMonthUK events. Thank you for having me UoM Society and Environment Research Group (SERG) Manchester Geography #AcademicTwitter

Short piece on housing occupations and evictions in Cape Town, São Paulo, and Bogotá, drawing from ongoing research with brilliant City Occupied collaborators: centreforsustainablecities.ac.uk/news/covid-hou…

Fully funded PhD scholarship on water crises in Southern Africa at the University of Hull, working with a great team: preview-uni-hull.cloud.contensis.com/study/postgrad…

City Occupied: The Cissie Gool House is a zine made as part of our ongoing research into ocupations in Cape Town, São Paulo, and Bogotá. It tells the stories of occupiers of Cissie Gool House, an abandoned hospital in Woodstock, Cape Town. centreforsustainablecities.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

NEW *OPEN ACCESS* PAPER in Energy Res Soc Sci Appraising sociotechnical visions of sustainable #energy futures🌍⚡️with me Jason Chilvers Helen Pallett @tom_hargreaves1 Read here👉sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Manchester Geography UoM Society and Environment Research Group (SERG) UoM_MERI #EnergyTransition #ClimateCrisis

It’s been a pleasure to chief edit this first ever special issue e-book on Governing Carbon Removal with co-editors @Oliver_Geden Mathias Fridahl E Cox & James Palmer. A year and a half in the making, with 60 authors and 22 articles… Time for a thread frontiersin.org/research-topic…

Excited to announce a seminar series I've organized on the theme of "Reparative Urbanism: Informality, infrastructural repurposing, and collective life in the wake of the pandemic": urbanrepair.net

Join us on Friday 😊