New Frontiers of Urban Inequality, Keynote by Dr Saffron Woodcraft

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Mappin Hall, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD

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New Frontiers of Urban Inequality: Power, Technology and the Politics of Everyday Life,, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL (HYBRID KEYNOTE LECTURE)
 
In her keynote lecture, Saffron Woodcraft will explore the evolving landscape of urban inequality in the 21st century. Drawing on her long-term research on urban regeneration, inequalities, and the co-production of knowledge in shaping equitable cities, Dr Woodcraft will explore the emergence of new forms of inequality linked to digital infrastructure and data citizenship. Examining how traditional theories and metrics of urban inequality fail to capture these shifting realities, which increasingly affect both marginalised and middle-income urban populations, she advocates for trans-disciplinary approaches to urban knowledge production, policy design, and planning that foreground local knowledge, community agency, and shared prosperity.

  • When: Thursday 26th June, 1000-1100

  • Where: Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Mappin St, S1 4DT, Sheffield University

  • How: Hybrid 

  • Participants: Open to Public

  • How to register: . Registration closes Friday 20th June. 

  • Find out more: Emerging Urban Inequalities Conference Committee: emu-conference-group@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography 

Saffron is Principal Research Fellow and Director of Social Policy at the Institute for Global Prosperity, where she leads the Prosperity Co-Lab (PROCOL) UK. Her research focuses on understanding lived experiences of community, shared prosperity, and inequality in urban neighbourhoods experiencing rapid change.

Saffron works collaboratively with citizen scientists, community organisations, government policymakers and business decision-makers to bring local understandings of prosperity and inequality into planning and decision-making processes. This work examines how 'communities of place' and relationships between opportunity, quality of life, and urban transformation are imagined in public policy and professional place-making practices and theorised in urban studies.

She leads trans-disciplinary research and innovation partnerships in the UK and Tanzania, including the 10-year study, London Prosperity Board, and , which focus on collaborations with citizen scientists, local community organisations, government policymakers, and business, to develop evidence and action on local pathways to prosperity.  Saffron is currently a

Conference Organisers: Claire Zhuo Pang, Hannah Sender, Mateus Lira da Matta Machado, Olamide Udo-Udoma Ejorh, Yu-Tung Wu. 

Support: Helen Curtis, Vicky Simpson, Beth Perry, Rowland Atkinson

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