🎧 We are very happy to share a new episode of our podcast #UnequalWorlds. Here, we talk with the wonderful Zarina Patel about the politics and practices of achieving just & sustainable urban transitions! International Science Council Mistra Urban Futures UCT Universitetet i Bergen gripinequality.org/2022/11/just-a…

Listen to "#12 Just and Sustainable Urban Development, with Dr Zarina Patel" by GRIP ⚓ anchor.fm/gripinequality…

My life has been transformed by Andrea's time at ACC. Join us as he reflects on his recent work - themes of financing ICT, Chinese tech investment, and platformed economies. Feb 9, 3:30 pm (see link for info) africancentreforcities.net/event/between-… UTA-Do African Cities Workshop African Centre for Cities andrea pollio

#climate debate is riven w/contested temporal frames: future generations or present needs? One slow change or rapid shifts?Industrial, carbon, political, & identity timescales vary too. To study the ⌛️/climate nexus, The British Academy awarded us a Global Convening Programme grant.

SDG Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Cape Town focussing on transdisciplinarity and engaged scholarship

📢Beyond Oil: Refuelling Transformations📢 Join us for the 5th Beyond Oil conference on Oct. 17-18, 2023 in Bergen. We invite scholars to unpack & explore how we can revive and refuel transformation to mitigate #climatechange. #CFA out now. More info 👇 tinyurl.com/beyondoil23

Confirmed keynotes for the conference are: Zarina Patel, University of Cape Town Zarina Patel and Derk Loorbach, director of DRIFT, Erasmus University Rotterdam Derk Loorbach Follow #beyondoil23 for updates on keynotes & speakers.

Calling scholars from the Global South -- apply to the USF’s International Fellowships Each award covers the cost of a sabbatical period at a university of the candidate’s choice, worldwide, to write-up research findings into articles and/or a book urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/intern…

I am looking forward to engaging with the Department of Geography at the University of Ghana this afternoon.

The Urban Studies Foundation is delighted to announce an exciting new array of Seminar Series programming across the globe for 2023-2024. Thirteen projects in over twenty countries are starting now! Read more on the USF website: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2023/04/12/thi…

My first in-person meeting, since the start of the pandemic, w/ fellow trustees of Urban Studies Foundation in this retreat at the Gladstone’s Library. Missing those who couldn’t make it here this time and who were away. Looking forward to the next meeting before end of my tenure at end of Dec

Really enjoyed working on this with Vanesa Castán Broto Zarina Patel and Rike Sitas

Fantastic to see all the positive news from the Urban Studies Foundation supported #OverlookedCities conference w/ Resilience Development Initiative Yimin Zhao Erwin Nugraha Hyun Bang Shin 신현방 Rita Padawangi & more. Thank you Kunal Jha umar 🇵🇸 Hamzah Al Asadulloh & all participants! More info on this series: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/grante…

From the LIRA TD learning study. Available open access.

The paradoxes of just transitions. Keynotes by Zarina Patel and Eva Maria Fjellheim moderated by CET PhD Shayan Shokrgozar.

#beyondoil23 - I’ve been refueled with ideas, fresh air, dips in the North Sea, big views, pool laps and radical kindness in Bergen.

USF announces 2024's Knowledge Mobilization Awards. The projects are designed to build on the outputs of previous USF-funded research by expanding its reach and facilitating its social impact beyond the academic world. Check the latest #USFBlog: ow.ly/chO950REfUa

Exciting opportunity! Only a few weeks left to apply for the 2024 #USFInternationalFellowships grant. 📅 Deadline: 5th July, 2024. This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Apply now: ow.ly/Bs0J50RL5wr

SSAG Last night Zarina Patel, Associate Professor UCT , delivered her incoming presidential address. Congratulations Zarina!

The October 2024 issue (Volume 61, Issue 13) of #UrbanStudies is out now featuring papers and reviews by Sylvia Croese, Astrid Wood (she/her), @TorreViolante, Martina Loi, Faiza Moatasim, Taesoo Song, Karen Chapple, @gracebellak and many more journals.sagepub.com/toc/usja/61/13