How can we see and understand complex and volatile cities?
How might we use and analyse photographs and archives in urban research?
Listen to latest #urbanradar podcast with @xuniamortimer.bsky.social and @felipemagallhaes.bsky.social
With @itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
13.02.2026 10:43 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Here we go! Series two underway. Launch of exciting new collaboration across the North of England!
27.01.2026 17:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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Here's the wrap up of #urbanradar for 2025!
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- #Bogota's care blocks
- #Subtervising
- Scrapping trial by #jury
- #US #Security Strategy
- #Australia's #social #media ban
- #Syrian cities one year on
@itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
22.12.2025 14:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Sneaky listen of Julia Moses talking with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on #urbanradar
About child labour and urban and rural dimensions drawing on her project @glosoc.bsky.social
08.12.2025 21:33 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
If you've not signed up, check out the Global Corridor newsletter here ... Critical geopolitical reading of forces shaping urban worlds
@theurbaninstitute.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @drabioconnor.bsky.social @eyeofraf.bsky.social @callumny.bsky.social
28.11.2025 15:27 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Free book! Download now if you're interested in the material geographies of the belt and road initiative
@invisiblemapper.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social
And listen to Jon talking about some of the work on the #urbanradar podcast here
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28.11.2025 15:30 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Learnt so much chatting with Julia and Dani on the latest #urbanradar podcast
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And quite a bit of lying on my part (though I do actually like elephants)
28.11.2025 15:33 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Am going for run 2 tomorrow! Any sponsorship for @warchilduk.bsky.social much needed
www.justgiving.com/page/bethper...
14.11.2025 08:05 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Listen here for latest pod featuring colleagues @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @zhengli-huang.bsky.social and Linda Westman in discussion with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social about China, the Global Infrastructure Race and Its Urban Impacts
www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...
14.11.2025 06:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
And he won! For some insight into how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got there, listen to the discussion from July with @katiepruszynski.bsky.social, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
Full episode here open.spotify.com/episode/2GhJ...
Skip to 25:10 for more
05.11.2025 06:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Join us for a full day of mobilisation at the University of Sheffield on 11/11/2025 from 11am to 4pm (no need to register)
Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
04.11.2025 09:09 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 4
Radar 10: GREEN RESURGENCE & GAZA RECONSTRUCTION (+Brexit, +rats, +Louvre heist, +AI Friend and more)
@un-habitat.bsky.social World Cities Day! And another episode of #urbanradar
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Tune in for @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social talking @zackpolanski.bsky.social with @mattflinders.bsky.social, & Gaza reconstruction with Said Zaaneen
31.10.2025 07:09 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Another taster of the latest #UrbanRadar feature on Humanity's Urban Future with Ash Amin, @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social
@britishacademy.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social
28.10.2025 20:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Listen to this clip of @xazaaradjame.bsky.social in conversation with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with Ash Amin, drawing on work for @britishacademy.bsky.social and CIFAR
@michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
27.10.2025 08:37 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Feature 9: HUMANITY'S URBAN FUTURE - A conversation with AbdouMaliq Simone and Ash Amin
A very special episode of #UrbanRadar #podcast to share this Urban October.
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HUMANITY'S URBAN FUTURE with @xazaaradjame.bsky.social and Ash Amin
Featuring work funded by CIFAR with the @britishacademy.bsky.social
24.10.2025 14:24 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Running 12 half-marathons in 12 months for @warchilduk.bsky.social
First run completed today. 11 to go!
Please sponsor me if you can - www.justgiving.com/page/bethper...
11.10.2025 12:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
And here's @simonrushton.bsky.social chatting to the very same @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on Nepal's uprising and local peace-building processes in Colombia
06.10.2025 20:37 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Sneak preview of @samburgum.bsky.social speaking to #urbanradar podcast hosts @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social on this month's radar
06.10.2025 20:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Radar 9: CONFLICT & URBAN TERRITORY - FROM UK HOMELESSNESS TO UPRISING IN NEPAL (+West Bank settlements, +witchcraft, +cars and more)
New episode of #UrbanRadar!
In this monthโs scan of global urban news, @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social discuss #HOMELESSNESS in the UK with @samburgum.bsky.social, before turning to the #UPRISING in Nepal with @simonrushton.bsky.social:
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06.10.2025 08:36 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Skibidi, and Oxford Road / Street madness. Listen here for the beginning of my public downfall as I lose all credibility...
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06.10.2025 20:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
New episode out now! A great listen for researchers, students, and advocates for knowledge coproduction
Featuring Diana Mitlin, Melanie Lombard, myself & @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
@coprofutures.bsky.social @africancities.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @unishefplayer.bsky.social
24.09.2025 17:08 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Andy Burnham, the man who would be king
The Greater Manchester mayor has made no secret of his Labour leadership ambitions, but faces significant obstacles
I was fortunate enough to interview @andyburnham.bsky.social for #urbanradar podcast and hear first-hand about broken Britain & what is needed to rewire systems and rebalance power
I was convinced by much of it - listen here
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www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
21.09.2025 15:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
"This article examines the doubleness of precarity as an atmosphere of both how life is made marginal and how life exceeds the margins imposed."
@xazaaradjame.bsky.social
Check out new article below
12.09.2025 07:44 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Looking forward to this workshop with @glynowilliams.bsky.social @tshafique.bsky.social and adam abdullah as part of our programme on urban #epistemics
Tues 7th October, online, all day
11.09.2025 16:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Book Launch - The Gated City
The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in MexicoThis book launch is ย being organised by the Urban Riches theme group, at the Urban Institute.
Not in Sheffield? This one is for you
Online book launch of "The Gated City"
Wednesday 24th September, 1700-1800 BST
Register below...
@qurbanist.bsky.social @shardarozena.bsky.social @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
11.09.2025 16:24 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A rather lengthy episode, seems I needed to talk after the summer...never fear, we have put links to skip ahead to listen to our guests and you can always put it on double speed!
(Some people do I hear...I can't imagine how fast that goes)
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05.09.2025 06:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Just a snapshot of some of the brilliant #co-produced and #participatory research happening across UK Higher Education - and the barriers faced. More problems than solutions at present it seems...hopefully the @coprofutures.bsky.social can make a useful contribution in this space
05.09.2025 06:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A real privilege to speak with Mona and Nausheen in this urban radar
They highlight the challenges of doing urban research under the watch of intelligence agencies or with drones over your head
How they are supporting the next generation of scholars under these conditions is inspiring
25.08.2025 17:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Latest Urban Radar feature now out...
With Mona Fawaz (Beirut Urban Lab) & Nausheen Anwar (Karachi Urban Lab)
"Urban Labs in Times of Conflict and Post-Truth" - a critical, unsettling and inspiring listen...
@itsbethperry.bsky.social @goodfellowtom.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/7i6v...
25.08.2025 17:09 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
Writer, editor, speaker, consultant, cartoonist, illustrator. Author, The Dictionary of Urbanism. Editor, Context. Plandemonium videos. http://robcowan.co.uk
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre @stir.ac.uk is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual masters, Buddha's teachings and putting the teachings into practice. Tibet,Tibetan people as well as others who are suffering.
Photo: The Dalai Lama
On my right is Yahne Le Toumelin, mother of Matthieu Ricard.
Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
Associate Professor in Planning and Urban Regeneration at University of Cambridge, Land Economy.
Fellow of Downing College.
Economic Geography & Planning: Local Economic Development, Urban and Regional Transformations.
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Senior lecturer - urban planning/politics/geography. Newcastle University
Anglรณfilo. Do Dรฉpor. Naciรณn AP-9.
Migrant, geographer, public transport enthusiast. Research and teaching on urban mobilities, economies, and inequalities. Very sceptical of AI in HE. Titular Associate Professor at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social and @tsuoxford.bsky.social She/her
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Place - Heritage - Emotion - Urban History
Professor of Urban Studies at University of Glasgow
Arts & Humanities Research Council Place Programme Director
Views/posts/likes etc my own
Postdoc at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb | PhD, Kingโs College London | Primarily working on mind and metaphysics ๐ญ
Cousas urbanas. Agora no Instituto de Estudos e Desenvolvemento de Galicia (IDEGA), na Universidade de Santiago. Grupo ANTE - Anรกlise Territorial. Municipalista.
Research on global migration and mobility from the Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group