A relational understanding of the local state helps us appreciate local capacity to meet local needs - my contribution to the timely @LGStudies SI on the future of local government 👀 Open access! https://t.co/8S8r2t1fVT
#BookReview 📒📖
Slow and sudden violence: why and when uprisings occur by Derek Hyra, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2024, 368 pp.
✍️ Madeleine Pill @pillmad
https://t.co/mIizQ9rm9K
New #OpenAccess article by @pillmad and Jason Slade: Co-governance of the ‘#CreativeCity’: bringing lived experience to the #governance of culture in Sheffield
https://t.co/U07RXnbk5q
This very special issue to mark 50 years of @LGStudies is now published & all #openaccess. With guest editors @ProfCatDurose & @peckersley, the authors explore the evolution of #localgovernment research over half a century & look forward at emerging trends https://t.co/zp6fksDRvd
🌟 Exciting Opportunity 🌟 Fully funded Commonwealth Scholarship for MSc Urban Planning at Newcastle University, UK 🎓✨ Covers tuition, living expenses, and return airfare. Apply by 12 Dec, 16:00 GMT. Don't miss out! 🌍✈️ More details https://t.co/UnICnbdt5d
New in LGS@50 in '‘Change? Decay? Promise?: fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK' @bethanyrex &Clive Gray show how ideological preferences of different administrations have created a highly uncertain&challenging operating environment https://t.co/CPkAR8vc1h
📢 We're hiring 📢
Do you want to turn the principle of community power into reality?
Do you have brilliant quantitative analysis skills?
Do you enjoy working with a range of partners, from the #NHS to #localgov?
Find out more and apply 👉 https://t.co/FcvUHam4BJ
🎯Great new report from Andy Pike @CURDSNewcastle & @JackTShaw on the geography of local authorities financial distress in England
sobering, yet essential reading ↓
https://t.co/3VYUJlwhP5
In our contribution to LGS@50, tj_arnold and I argue that the concept of resilience and its application to local government needs situated in spatial and historical context.
New Paper from our #UrbanRiches theme
"The global urban elite: the sources of wealth and residential networks of the super-rich in 10 cities"
By @qurbanist, @katiewhiggins + Jonathan Bourne
in @financeandspace journal
https://t.co/SeH1nelHSh
New in LGS@50:in 'The Great Survivor lives on? Resilience,austerity &devolution in English local government'@tj_arnold& @MattyMckennaUoB illustrate the benefits of adopting a broad spatial perspective to focus on resilience within local government systems. https://t.co/iAlWKmDY1N
For 2025, we are looking for forum papers that map out brave, original and innovative directions in urban research. Let us know if you have work that is opening up conversations across the urban fields.
https://t.co/sz2vXf2rDu
Last year I was commissioned by the UK ministry of housing to write a report on the demand side-drivers of the housing affordability crisis.
After some election-related delays, here it is. (1/13)
https://t.co/cpBpUZokZr
New for LGS@50: in 'The university within, of& for the city: reflections on the entanglement of academic practice and the local offers' @NilsStockmann reflects on the normative& scientific-practical implications of doing research ‘within’ a certain local. https://t.co/tBVryzPw3k
New for our LGS@50 special issue: in 'Adapting to climate change: the ultimate challenge for the next half-century of local government?' @peckersley& @MartaOlazabal argue it will require new approaches that go beyond discrete&familiar solutions #openaccess https://t.co/Y9WzQSxA1J
This special issue gets better and better! Essential reading from @AriannaGi & Steve Griggs about locating the local in local government studies @LGStudies
New for our LGS@50 special issue: in their next paper 'Addressing the elephant in the room: what’s the local in local government studies?' @AriannaGi & Steven Griggs suggest that the real value of the #local lies in its fuzzy and often problematic nature https://t.co/ly68JGU1P5
New for our LGS@50 special issue: in their next paper 'Addressing the elephant in the room: what’s the local in local government studies?' @AriannaGi & Steven Griggs suggest that the real value of the #local lies in its fuzzy and often problematic nature https://t.co/ly68JGU1P5
Join us for our annual Sheffield Urbanism lecture series.
This year our deputy director @InvisibleMapper will be exploring:
"Global Corridor: Techno-Territorial Constellations on a Transforming Planet"
Info on in person/online attendance👇
https://t.co/ODWgQXyIWM