Completed @ESRC @NewtonFund project (2018-2022) #urbanfuture #smallcities #SmartCities #SDG11 | PI @AyonaDatta CoIs @HadfieldHill @melissa_geog | RTs≠Endrsmnts
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As we officially end our ‘Learning from small cities’ project today, we take you through the project outputs & learnings! The project successfully concluded with our project conference & exhibition in London.
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🙌Congratulations to the six geographers recently elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences this Spring.@AcadSocSciences
⬇️ Read more
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Our PI @AyonaDatta has been awarded a Visiting Chair Professor position under the Recruitment of Visiting Science and Technology Personnel Program supported by the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
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PI @AyonaDatta among 7 UCL academics elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences | UCL News - UCL – University College London ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/apr/seve…
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📢CfP: Regional Futures: The politics of digitalisation-as-urbanisation, 1-2 September 2025 @UCLgeography
Part of @ERC_REGFUT funded by @ERC_Research
Confirmed Keynotes: @RobKitchin, @NancyO_UCT, @pontusw, Ursula Rao.
Abstract deadline 31 January 2025.
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CfP #AAG2025 Urban AI Spectrums
If you are going to @theAAG meeting in Detroit, please consider sending us your abstract for this session on Urban AI Spectrums.
Co-organised with Federico Cugurullo (TCD) and Federico Caprotti (Exeter).
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New Article published from our project by PI @AyonaDatta
My article 'Distant time: The future of urbanisation from ‘there’ and ‘then’ @DialoguesHG
Through planning archives of Shimla, India, I conceptualise how temporal ordering of a colonial state is reflected in postcolonial imaginaries of smart urban futures
doi.org/10.1177/204382062412…
A little late but better late than never.
New article 'Distant time' came out in @DialoguesHG
Includes research and findings from our project funded by @ESRC project
My article 'Distant time: The future of urbanisation from ‘there’ and ‘then’ @DialoguesHG
Through planning archives of Shimla, India, I conceptualise how temporal ordering of a colonial state is reflected in postcolonial imaginaries of smart urban futures
doi.org/10.1177/204382062412…
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My article 'Distant time: The future of urbanisation from ‘there’ and ‘then’ @DialoguesHG
Through planning archives of Shimla, India, I conceptualise how temporal ordering of a colonial state is reflected in postcolonial imaginaries of smart urban futures
doi.org/10.1177/204382062412…
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#geographyteachers this Shaping our Cities @ahrcpress collection of urban research a useful read & inc:
* Risky Cities & Flooding @BrionyMcDonagh @GeographyHull
* Gendering Smart Cities @AyonaDatta @UCLgeography
#usegeography
see bit.ly/46j9SM0
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Delighted to see our @GenderSmartCity work amplified by @ahrcpress
Thanks to the Khadar girls and @mysafetipin for this amazing collaboration.
Check out our project under the ‘inclusion and equality’ tab in this link discover.ukri.org/shaping-ou…
#geographyteachers this Shaping our Cities @ahrcpress collection of urban research a useful read & inc:
* Risky Cities & Flooding @BrionyMcDonagh @GeographyHull
* Gendering Smart Cities @AyonaDatta @UCLgeography
#usegeography
see bit.ly/46j9SM0
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@UNITACHamburg conference about to start. It’s such a privilege to be able to input in the @UNHABITAT resolution on people centred smart cities.
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PI @AyonaDatta will be delivering a keynote titled 'Pathways to Digital Democracy' in the upcoming
@UNITACHamburg conference in Hamburg on 18 June 2024. Register to attend online 👇
📢 Looking forward to this @UNITACHamburg conference.
Register here to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respo…
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📅 Save the date! The 'Regional Futures' Policy Roundtable is on 24 June 2024 in Nairobi. Experts from across Africa will discuss digital innovations in land administration. Don't miss it! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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📢 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!
Distant time: The future of urbanisation from ‘there’ and ‘then’
I argue for an examination of the deeper connections between temporalities, ecologies and technologies in order to understand the imaginaries of a smart urban future
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Look forward to participating in this panel today. Come join us if you can.
📘 We're excited for tonight's launch of @MyriaGeorgiou4's new book!
Experts @Sarahalsherif, @AyonaDatta, @DocMattMoudi & @ben_rog discuss what drives digital change in cities 🏙️ #LSEMedia
Hosted by @MediaLSE & @LSECities. More details 👇 lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/03/202…
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📢Delighted to announce that 'Sorting paper: The archival labour of digitising land records in Kenya', co-authored with Dennis Muthama @The_BIEA is now published in @geogjournal
Funded by @ERC_Research as part of @ERC_REGFUT project
@UCLgeography
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
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📢 CfP *Digital Territories* in @RGS_IBG annual conference in London. I am co-organising this session with super colleagues @FennaImara @mariana_reyess as part of @ERC_REGFUT
Please send us your abstracts by 23rd February 2024
#Digital #territory
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📢NEW #OPENACCESS PUB: 'The informational periphery: territory, logistics and people in the margins of a digital age'
My @AsianGeoJournal plenary lecture in #AAG2023 where I argue for a 'logistics turn' in undertstanding the periphery in a digital age. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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📢 Don't miss the final panel discussion of the day! 🎙️🤝 'Methodological approaches to the digitalising state' with our brilliant team of postdoc researchers @FennaImara @mariana_reyess @GeogJFlores @zillionnames and @Dennis_Mbugua_M diving deep into exciting research methods.
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Join us at the 'Digitalising State' Symposium and be part of the conversation on the future of statehood and governance in the digital era. Explore the intersections of digital technologies, urbanisation, and informational politics. regionalfutures.org/all-outp…